Hernia
the protrusion of some portion of the intestinal canal, or, in a more general sense, of any organ or part of an organ, from its natural place. It may arise from over-exertion, from a blow, etc. There are many varieties of hernia, as, the diaphragmatic, the enterovaginal, the mesenteric, the mesocolic, omental, perineal, the femoral, etc.; the most common of all is the inguinal, ocinternal and oblique or external. When curring in the groin. It may be direct or a hernia cannot be reduced, and, above HEROD THE GREAT all, when it becomes strangulated, it cestuous connection which subsisted beis apt to terminate in gangrene and death.