To Jordan Lloyd, of Birmingham, England, is due the credit of first calling attention to the importance of acute infections of the seminal vesicles. In two concise papers1Lloyd showed the comparative frequency of gonorrheal infection of the vesicles and laid stress on the treatment. Following the writings of Lloyd scattering papers appeared, especially in the German medical press, but no serious consideration was given to the subject until 1894, when Eugene Fuller, of New York, began his masterly series of articles on the seminal vesicles, valuable especially for the thorough presentation of the anatomy, physiology and pathology of these organs. The work of Fuller has awakened at least that part of the medical profession who pay special attention to disorders of the male sexual apparatus. But it is probable that the average practitioner, for the greater part, is yet unconvinced and is inclined to bunch all cases of