URINARY INCONTINENCE IN THE FEMALE

The record of attempts to cure urinary incontinence in the female is an interesting illustration of the inability of most men to go straight to the point in working on any problem involving a part of the human body. The real importance of the condition, in its possibilities of discomfort and even disability to the individual, is well shown by the long array of procedures which have been advocated to help this distressing trouble. Until a few years ago, no satisfactory method of cure for incontinence in the female was known; all of the methods were more or less futile, many of them ridiculous, and some of them even dangerous. Contractile collodion has been painted over the meatus. Radial cauterization, as in a redundant rectal mucous membrane, has been used. Paraffin has been injected under the mucous membrane to make a permanent pressure against the canal. A sterile silk suture