A few years since there was a man in Philadelphia past middle age, the victim of adult umbilical hernia so pendulous that while walking he had to support it with his arms and hands.

It was said that this hernia did not enlarge until after his service as a soldier in the late war.
Abbott recites the case of an Irish woman of thirty-five who applied to know if she was pregnant.

No history of a hernia could be elicited.

No pregnancy existed, but there was found a ventral hernia of the abdominal viscera through an opening which extended the entire length of the linea alba, and which was four inches wide in the middle of the abdomen.
Pim saw a colored woman of twenty-four who, on December 29, 1858, was delivered normally of her first child, and who died in bed at 3 A.M.

on February 12, 1859.