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Excerpt from Progressive Medicine, Vol. 2: June, 1918; Hernia; Surgery of the Abdomen, Exclusive of Hernia; Gynecology; Disorders of Nutrition and Metabolism; Diseases of the Glands of Internal Secretion; Diseases of the Blood and Spleen; Ophthalmology
While the Government does not claim the power to force a man to undergo an operation against his will, it assumes the power to court martial a person who refuses to undergo the operation for the radical cure Of a hernia, sending him to prison, if necessary, for a longer period of time.
This 18 practically the same in the end as forcing him to submit to Operation.
I have just been informed by the surgeon-general's Office that the following changes have been made in the new draft regulations covering hernia, which now reads.
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