Abstract
Urologic literature contains numerous references to urethral calculi, over one hundred reports being recorded, from many of which important lessons can be learned. The most frequent variety of urethral calculus is that of the single impacted stone, of vesical origin, caught behind one of the physiologic narrowings of the urethra or behind a stricture. In the case here reported it is evident that had the strictured area been kept dilated for some time after the prostatectomy, the calculus would not have formed. The purpose in reporting this case is to demonstrate a roentgenogram taken of the calculus in situ. Patient. —Charles A., aged 61, single, civil engineer, born in Massachusetts, was admitted Jan. 10, 1913. His father died at advanced age, his mother in childbirth. There was no history of cancer or tuberculosis. The patient denied lues, and had never been ill except as will be described. He was addicted
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