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RUPTURE OF THE DIAPHRAGM. 
By Mr. \V. A. Cart WEIGHT, 5'., Whitchurch. 
About the 25th of June, 1831, Mr. Jebb, of Whitchurch 
Corn mills, purchased from Air. Dickin, of Darleston, a laroe 
aged cart horse, sound, with the exception of being a little thick 
winded, and which he had been for some time: aoreeino^, at the 
same time, that the latter should keep him for a day or two 
to finish drawing some timber. On the 28th of June Mr. 
Dickin had been working him, as [abovementioned ; and at 
night delivered him to Mr. Jebb, having brought him a distance 
of about seven miles and half within the hour, and, on his arri¬ 
val, being tipsy, he trotted and knocked him about to shew the 
animal’s good qualities. When he was put into the stable, a 
bran mash w^as given to him, but of which he did not eat above 
a mouthful or tw’o ; he also ate about as much grass, which was 
in the cratch. Soon afterwards, it being about dusk, he was 
turned out, the waggoner observing to the owner, that his breath¬ 
ing was very bad. 
The next morning he w’as taken up, when his respiration w^as 
much worse. About six at night Air. Jebb came for me to see 
him : he informed me that the horse had stood up all the day 
with his legs wide apart; his head stretched out towards the 
manger, sweating much, and the respiration excessively quick 
and laborious, w hile a great noise was heard at each act of it. 
He had eaten nothing, nor had any thing of a remedial nature 
been done to him ; and we had but just entered the stable when 
he fell down and breathed his last. When he was dead, his ab¬ 
domen was quite flaccid. Air. Jebb w'ould not have him opened 
until Dickin was present. 
30^/^ 9 A.M. — Post-mortem examination .—Aluch sw^elled. 
The diaphragm on the right side was torn from the ensiform car¬ 
tilage of the sternum to the dorsal vertebrae, but it did not seem 
otherwise diseased or inflamed. The lungs appeared to be per¬ 
fectly sound, and every other part of the thoracic and abdominal 
viscera w^ere equally so, w ith the exception of the villous surface 
of the stomach, wdiich was a little inflamed. The stomach con¬ 
tained many hots, and, as usual, two or three handsful of food ; 
the mash he had eaten was distinctly seen in it, but not the least 
fresh-eaten grass. 
