Abstract
Bartholin's gland was named after Bartholinus, who described it in detail in the seventeenth century. In 1761 Duverney<sup>1</sup>gave in detail the results of further studies of the gland, and pointed out the resemblance between its tissue and that of the prostate gland; he also mentioned the duct of the gland and demonstrated its opening at the vulva. Huguier<sup>2</sup>(1850) published a most extensive and thorough article on diseases of this gland and referred to it as the vulvovaginal gland. In 1892 Müller gave a résumé of the literature of the development of Bartholin's glands. He says that they are first recognized in the fetus when it has attained a length of 4.5 cm. Here they are seen as solid cords passing off from the<i>sinus urogenitalis</i>. Pohlman, who has been giving this subject much study in Professor Mall's laboratory, tells me that the beginning of
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