200 Mr. Home’s Account of a small Lobe 
that kind. It could not however be satisfactorily separated 
from the prostate gland, nor could any distinct duct be found 
leading into the bladder. 
A similar examination was made of this part in five different 
subjects. The appearance was not exactly the same in any 
two of them. In one there was no apparent glandular sub- 
stance, but a mass of condensed cellular membrane : this, 
however, on being cut into, differed from the surrounding fat. 
In another there was a lobe blended laterally with the sides of 
the prostate gland. These facts are mentioned in proof of its 
not being always of the same size nor having exactly the same 
appearance; this is found also to be the case with Cowper’s 
glands, they are sometimes large and distinct ; in other sub- 
jects are scarcely to be detected, and in others again are in 
all the intermediate states. The most distinct and natural 
appearance of this part was in a healthy subject 25 years of 
age, of which the following is an account. On turning off the 
vasa deferentia and vesicular seminales, exactly in the middle 
of the sulcus, between the two posterior portions of the pro- 
state gland, there was a rounded prominent body, the base of 
which adhered to the coats of the bladder. It was imbedded 
not only between the vasa deferentia and the bladder, but also 
in some measure between the lateral portions of the prostate 
gland and the bladder, since they were in part spread over it, 
so as to prevent its circumference from being seen, and they 
adhered so closely as to require dissection to remove them ; 
nor could this be done beyond a certain extent, after which the 
same substance was continued from the one to the other. This 
proved it to be a lobe of the prostate gland, the middle of 
which had a rounded form, united to the gland at the base 
