Abstract
Urology, as one of the younger medical specialties, has made rapid advances and has a record of brilliant achievement. During the last forty years the surgical and diagnostic branches, aided by the inventive genius of men within and without the profession, have produced remarkable results. The medical side of urology, on the contrary, had advanced more slowly. Modern textbooks of urology attest to the rapid change in surgical practice and instrumental technic, but the lack of advance in the medical branch left open a fertile field for charlatans and drug promoters. During the last five years, however, medical urology has progressed in two ways: first, by a more careful study of the organisms most frequently associated with urologic infections, and, second, by attempts at inhibiting the growth of those organisms with dietary therapy. In studying the causes and prevention of urinary calculi, emphasis has been placed on other causes besides
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