INTRA-URETHRAL OPERATIONS

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Abstract
That small portion of the body of the male, situated between the inner border of the sphincter vesicae and the triangular ligament, has a greatly varied functional activity determined by its anatomic structure and its intimate relations with the genital and urinary systems, and is very subject to pathologic changes, occasioned thereby. Very few of these ailments may be cured by medical measures alone; most require the services of a surgeon, any surgeon. But there is a class of ills among them that can only be helped by technically trained specialists, possessed of an extensive armamentarium of expensive instruments, and a high degree of mechanical skill in using them that can only be acquired by a prolonged and large clinical experience. It is a special field of surgery in which the general surgeon will always be at a disadvantage. He may take out an enlarged prostate quite as well as

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