title: The treatment of urinary incontinence in 1814.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department 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
authors.forename: L Lewis
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Wall
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy