Some Important Points Connected with the Surgery of the Urinary Organs

of the urinary organs. The three chief conclusions put forward are: (1) that internal urethrotomy, commenced from the end nearest the bladder, is the best treatment of almost all forms of stricture ; (2) the advantages of digital exploration of the bladder, especially in cases of suspected tumour ; (3) that, in almost all cases of vesical calculus, lithotrity is, as the method of extraction, superior to lithotomy. Under the second head is contained the pith of the same author's work on tumours of the bladder. The book is one which should be in the hands of every practising surgeon. "VVe cannot leave