Experiences in France With Surgery of the Genito-Urinary Tract

The object of this paper is not to review the literature nor to attempt any general discussion of how wounds of the urinary tract should be or have been treated. Rather, it is to give a notion of the frequency or the infrequency of gunshot wounds of the urinary tract in war, and to report some personal experiences. These are relatively few in number, yet, supposedly, I was fortunately placed for seeing such work. For well over a year, I was with the British army, as a member of the U. S. Base Hospital No. 2, engaged in general surgery, but was also given the care of all genitourinary conditions that were admitted to the hospital. (No venereal cases were included, as these were treated in special hospitals in the British army.) Two months were spent operating in British casualty clearing stations (advanced hospitals) during periods of military activity. In