Two cases of perineal fistula following cowperitis.

Before the use of chemotherapy and antibiotics, acute and chronic inflammation of Cowper's glands was a fairly common complication of gonorrhoea and non-gonococcal urethritis. These conditions were well reviewed by Harkness (1937), but they are now relatively uncommon. The following two cases were seen in the Special Treatment Centre at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. In both cases, fistulae existed in the perineum connecting Cowper's gland with a cutaneous opening, and in one case an urethral fistula was also present.