Monro, Alexander: Observations On Crural Hernia: To Which Is Prefixed, A General Account Of The Other Varieties Of Hernia: Illustrated By Engravings (Edinburgh [u.a.], 1803)

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But though all are liable to this disease, they
are not equally so ; the difference of age, sex,
habit of body, and condition of life, not only give
a greater or a less dispohtion to hernia in general,
but have an inssuence in occanoning the parti-
cular species of the disease.
Amongst the various ranks of society, the
lower claises, owing to their continued labour,
are most subjecl to hernia : and the disease proves
more certainly satal to this description of people,
as labour not only induces the complaint, but
tends to increase it when formed, and poverty
too often prevents their obtaining the only means
capable of arresling its progress.
The frequent occurrence of the disease, and
the number of useful persons disabled, or lost:
to the community, gave rise to a charitable in-
stitution in London ; the object of which is,
to afford relief to the ruptured poor.
The records of this society afford, to a certain
degree, the means of making an estirnate of the
proportion of per ions afflicted with hernia.
Mr Turnbull, surgeon to that institution;
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