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The treatment of urinary incontinence in 1814
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8064, 4911 Barnes-Jewish Hospital Plaza, St Louis, MO 63110, USA. walll@msnotes.wustl.edu
International Urogynecology Journal and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
|February 26, 2003
Abstract:
A selection from a little-known medical treatise of the early 19th century is presented which describes the condition of urinary stress incontinence and its treatment by means of pessaries, mechanical occlusive devices and electrical stimulation therapy. The author provides a foreshadowing of therapies that would come into more common use 150 years later.