Littre Hernia

**Littre Gryza** (Littre, Alphonse) is a French surgeon, famous for his work on the study of gastrointestinal diseases and angiopathy. He worked at the Paris Medical Academy from 1879, after which he received the position of professor and head of the department of surgical diseases at the Edinburgh Academy Hospital. His work “Histoire de l'hôpital Saint-Louis” is dedicated to the history of the Paris Hospital of Saint-Louis. Littre came to the conclusion that large anterior hernias arise as a result of compression of the peritoneum in the lumbar region by an accumulation of fat, which forms in the groin region due to weakening of the muscles of the anterior abdominal wall and loss of