Relief of Congenital and Traumatic Incontinence of Urine by Operation

Incontinence of urine is such a social and economic handicap that the sufferer is indeed an object of distress. This paper suggests a new procedure by which a young woman, who had suffered from incontinence since birth, was entirely relieved of her difficulty and has assumed the normal activities of the ordinary girl of her age for the first time in her life. Two widely different cases of congenital incontinence in men have also been cured by operation. One occurring in a young man who had suffered from incontinence since birth was due to spina bifida and the other was a case of complete epispadias with incontinence. In addition, three cases of incontinence due to traumatism were successfully treated by applying the same principle. RECENT OPERATIVE ATTEMPTS TO RELIEVE URINARY INCONTINENCE Reports of surgical procedures undertaken to relieve incontinence of urine which have appeared during the past two years are