Stricture at External Meatus, with Phimosis, Followed by Abscess and Fistula; Remarks

PiLliAGAH, a Hindoo, aged 33, in good bodily health, came under my care on the 25tli of April last. He had been admitted into hospital on the 13th of the previous month, with a large urinary abscess in the ante-scrotal portion of the penis. The abscess was still discharging, and through the fistulous communication which it formed with the urethra, a good portion of the urine escaped; the remainder passed by the natural outlet, but only in drops. The prepuce was elongated, thickened, and hardened, and could not be drawn back nearly sufficiently to expose the glans, and from the smallnessof the urinary outlet, no instrument, even the very smallest, could be passed into the urethra, The history of the case appears to be that, in his youth, the