Word: hernia
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...favorite indoor sports in those days were operating for hernia, breaking legs and thighs for bow legs, knock-knees, tying off hemorrhoids, opening psoas [loin] abscesses, subcutaneously operating for varicose veins, scarifying and chiseling osteomyelitis, traumatic amputations, trephinings [skull operations] for injuries, lifting breasts off for carcinoma and putting up fractures...
When the doctors have a patient with a gangrenous foot or strangulated hernia (protruding loop of gut), they wheel him into an operating room, inject fluorescein, a reddish dye, into the vein of his arm. Then they darken the room, shine an ultraviolet lamp on the gangrenous area. The dye should make a circuit of the patient's blood stream in 20 seconds. If the gut or foot is still alive and receiving fresh blood, it will glow yellow green. Then it is safe to tuck the gut back in place, or stimulate circulation...
...Notre Dame Alumnus Greg Rice, rejected by the Army because of a triple hernia, chalked up his 42nd successive victory in an invitation two-mile race. Greatest distance runner since Nurmi, Rice was ashamed of his time...
...physical classification, 1-AR, applies to men with correctible defects, i.e., dental and nutritional defects, nasal obstructions, hernia, etc. Visual and dental requirements have been relaxed somewhat, but height and weight specifications remain the same...
...Navy was as stern as Bernarr Macfadden on the subject of physical condition, rejected 80% of its candidates for enlistment. With war in two oceans on its hands, the Navy has become more tolerant. Henceforth it will accept (and try to recondition) men with varicocele, hydrocele, deformed noses, hernia, hay fever...