THE FEMALE URETHRA

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The size and anatomic structure of the female urethra is so simple, as compared with the much longer and much more complex male urethra, that it has been carelessly assigned a much less important place in urologic thinking than it really deserves. Modern textbooks treat the diseases of this structure so lightly that one is led to believe the female urethra remarkably free from pathologic deviations. So much has this attitude become general that I am convinced that many sufferers are allowed to run along for years crying for help and having their real condition repeatedly run over in the daily search of the bladder and upper urinary tract for a satisfactory explanation of the patient's symptoms. Bladder irritation, frequency, burning and, at times, pain are symptoms that are the common denominator of many urologic conditions. Urologists have preached the doctrine far and near, until nearly all are now aware

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