[Bartholinitis--sepsis--pancreatitis (author's transl)].

The article describes an acute inflammation of Bartholin's gland named after the Danish anatomist Caspar Thoméson Bartholin, jr. (1655--1738), which eventually led to hospitalisation of a 47-year old woman for a period of two months involving many complications: truly a case of a small cause producing a great effect! Similar cases have not been found in the literature referred to by us, and hence publication of this unusual case appears justified.