and Montez5), we noticed that only one report (Kienbock's 6) was concerned with infants and children. Kienbock's study, however, was made on a comparatively small number of patients (twenty-two). Latta's 7 study in 1922 was concerned purely with the pathologic examination, and little attention was given to symptomatology and physical signs. We therefore thought it advisable to review the literature from 1912 to the present time and to collect reports of the cases occurring in infants and in children up to 10 years of age, in an attempt to establish the symptomatology of this disease and to advise, if possible, methods of diagnosis. The age incidence, sex, location, size, position of the hernial opening, character of the hernia and the hernial contents were noted (tables 1, 2 and 3). Particular attention was paid to symptoma¬ tology, to the number of cases recognized during life and to the methods employed in making the diagnosis. Errors in diagnosis, especially when roentgenograms had been employed, were noted, since roentgenography offers the only certain method of diagnosis during life.Only the literature subsequent to 1912 was reviewed, because Giffin * made a careful study of all cases reported prior to this time and stated