Calcium Oxalate Calculus in the Urethra

A male, aged about 40 years, employed as a ' line' chowkidar, was admitted into the hospital on the 7th September, 1936, with the following symptoms :? Frequency of micturition for one year, the quantity passed on each occasion being very small and pain and irritability of the glans penis. These symptoms had become much worse during the past four or five days. There was a slight muco-purulent discharge from the meatus and microscopical examination revealed intracellular diplococci. A soft rubber catheter was passed and was arrested just three-quarters of an inch behind the glans penis by a hard mass which could be felt on external palpation. It was extracted by artery forceps after breaking it into four pieces and it was identified as n calcium oxalate calculus. The total size of the stone