Case of Rupture of Intestine

its medico-legal interest:? Clxhedi, Hindu, at. 37, a municipal meliter, was fond of wrestling and used to engage in this practice almost every day. lie was of medium hight and fair muscular development. He suffered from double incomplete inguinal hernia of considerable size. At 10 a.m., on 5th July 1901, when wrestling with another meliter, whom he threw, he fell with his left groin on the bent knee of his opponent. Immediately afterwards he complained of severe abdominal pain. He walked home without assistance?a distance of half a mile? and then vomited and passed a motion. Obtaining no relief to his pain, he later walked, again without assistance, to the Chittagong hospital, a distance of half a mile, arriving there at 3 p.m. On admission he was sutFering from shock, complained of great thirst, and of an acute burning pain in his abdomen. The abdomen was rigid, tender, and tympanitic; the liver dulness was obliterated.