A Case of Infantile Umbilical Hernia

To the Editor of "The Indian Medical Gazette.' SIR,?Infantile umbilical hernia is a variety commonly met with, but rupture of the cicatrix at this 3pot, with extension of abdominal viscera, are not, I fancy, so often encountered. I accordingly crave a small space in the columns of your valuable paper for the publication of the following :? Bhag Rhuri, a female infant, only eight days old, of Mahomedan peasant parents, was brought to me on 15th December last. On examination, some three feet, perhaps more, of small intestine were observed lying outside the abdominal cavity, constricted, much inttamed and in consequence irreducible. The history pointed to the extension occurring after a severe