A great difference of opinion regarding the treatment of elusive ulcer of the bladder still seems to obtain among urologists. The treatment originally recommended by Hunner was a very wide resection of the ulcer-bearing area; but because of the unsatisfactory results, despite its radical nature, fulguration was advocated by various authors. The good qualities of fulguration were soon recognized and the open operation was generally abandoned. After having had a few failures, I gave up the open operation in favor of fulguration. Hunner has practically discontinued operation on his patients, and directs his attention to the removal of distant foci of infection and the local use of silver nitrate. When these fail, he resorts to the open operation. Others use no form of local treatment at all. Furniss1recently stated that he obtains the best results in those cases in which he fulgurates through the open bladder. Because of