The value of an operative procedure is determined only by the results obtained and the permanence of these results. This is especially true in an operation that has been designed for the cure of impotence. Immediate results are often misleading, and it is only by experience with many patients for a long period of time that one is able to choose the type of case suitable for the operation, to modify the operative technic if necessary, and last, but not least, to state with a fair amount of accuracy the result that will be obtained. About one year and nine months has elapsed since the first patient was operated on for the relief of impotence by a new method developed by the senior author. The operation was first performed in the Department of Experimental Surgery1at the New York Hospital. The first patient operated on has shown no reduction