He adds some remarks on the division of the spinal cord without immediate death.
Ford mentions a gunshot wound of the spinal cord, the patient living ten days; after death the ball was found in the ascending aorta.

Henley speaks of a mulatto of twenty-four who was stabbed in the back with a knife.

The blade entered the body of the 6th dorsal vertebra, and was so firmly embedded that the patient could be raised entirely clear of the bed by the knife alone.

An ultimate recovery ensued.
Although the word hernia can be construed to mean the protrusion of any viscus from its natural cavity through normal or artificial openings in the surrounding structures, the usual meaning of the word is protrusion of the abdominal contents through the parietes--what is commonly spoken of as rupture.

Hernia may be congenital or acquired, or may be single or multiple--as many as five having been seen in one individual.