MEDICA.L JOURNA~L origin and symptomless unless they become accidentally infected or very large. Symptoms arising in a previously quiescent diverticulum as a result of infection due to trauma, either from catheterization or the passage of the foetal head, would explain the high incidence of parous women in the series so far recorded. Urethral diverticula, while apparently not so common in Great Britain as in some parts of the United States of America and the West Indies, are by no means very rare. I have personally encountered two in London in the past four years, and Mr. Geoffrey Dixon has recently drawn my attention to a third example which, like Dr. Phillips's case, contained calculi. It is likely that if looked for carefully by British gynaecologists and urologists urethral diverticula would be found more often. This has certainly been the case elsewhere.-I am, etc.,
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.