The patient had made allusion to the loss of a hair-pin, a circumstance which corresponded with the beginning of her trouble.

Examination showed the orifice of the urethra to be swollen and painful to the touch, and from its canal a hair-pin 6.5 cm.

long was extracted.

The patient was unable to urinate, and it was necessary to resort to catheterization.

By evening the general symptoms had disappeared, and the next day the patient urinated as usual.
There are peculiar cases of hair in the bladder, in which all history as to the method of entrance is denied, and which leave as the only explanation the possibility that the bladder was in communication with some dermoid cyst.