PERFORATION OF THE LUNGS, DIAPHRAGM, &C. 19 
John Field, on the contrary, never saw a case without it. I have 
opened only three cases where a ruptured stomach existed, and in 
two of them there had been vomiting. In one of the cases, on 
introducing my hand up the rectum, l could distinctly feel, in ad- 
dition to the rupture, some extraneous matter between the intes- 
tines, and which was found to consist of the escaped food. 
There w r as a portion of it also in the scrotum, giving it the appear- 
ance of hernia ; indeed, before I opened him 1 fancied I had mis- 
taken my case, and that it was one of strangulated hernia. 
[An omission has been pointed out to us — a strange and inex- 
cusable one. The name of Mr. Cartwright is not attached to 
his paper on the Diseases of Cats, inserted in our November 
number, page 676. The writer of this note was the last per- 
son on earth to have done this intentionally. His earnest re- 
commendation has ever been to “ cast round the world an 
equal eye, and feel for all that live.” It shall not occur again.] 
Y. 
FATAL PERFORATION OF THE LUNGS, DIAPHRAGM , 
LIVER, AND COLON, BY THE SHAFT OF A CART. 
By Mr. W. Field, F.S., Oxford Street. 
A bay mare, at six o’clock on the morning of December 11th, 
while going along Oxford-street in an omnibus, on its way to the 
Paddington railroad station, was met by some butchers in a 
cart, the shaft of which passed in an oblique direction through 
the muscles of the off side, breaking two ribs, and entering the 
chest. The opening was so large as to allow a portion of the 
lung to protrude. The mare evinced no particular restlessness 
or pain, only occasionally shifting one or the other of the fore 
legs. The belly was much distended, and her respiration quick 
and difficult. No pulse could be detected, and the membrane 
of the mouth and eyes was blanched. 
I considered that she had not long to live* and that not much 
in the way of treatment could be effected. The wound was 
sewed up, and an anodyne draught given. She died in two 
hours after the accident. 
On examining the body, I found that the shaft had passed 
through part of the lung, diaphragm, and liver, and entered the 
colon : much of the contents of this viscus had escaped into the 
cavity of the belly. There were also three parts of a bucket of 
