the stagnant urine, accumulated in the vagina, eroded the passage and made an opening into the rectum, which proved fatal; the patient being only eight years old.
The cure in every instance consists in the division of the false membrane, which, it should be observed, is sometimes found double, at others of extraordinary density. Various successful operations of this nature are recorded, for the particulars of which the following authors may be consulted:—Fabric, ab aquapendente Oper. Chir. p. i. cap. 82, 83, 84; Guid. de Cauliac. Tract. 6, cap. 7; Hen. Van Roonhuysen, Obs. par. i. pag. 102, 103; Paul Barbet, p. 1, Chir. 1, cap. 13; Warner's Cases in Surgery, p. 276; &c.
