Although the female urinary and generative organs, unlike those of the male, are two separate and distinct systems, they are closely connected anatomically, embryologically and to a certain extent physiologically, and while a lesion of the urinary tract is a urologic and not a gynecologic condition, some knowledge of gynecology is often essential to correct diagnosis and treatment.
Of the last 8,302 patients admitted to the Women's Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine, 824, or 9.9 per cent, were referred to the female urology division because of urinary symptoms. Patients with gonorrhea, however, were treated in the gynecologic department. Urinary symtoms were entirely due to urinary tract disease in approximately 73 per cent of these cases, whereas pathologic and physiologic changes in the generative organs, although present in a larger proportion, were possible or probable etiologic factors in about 27 per cent; 28 per cent of the 8,302 patients