CHRONIC LESION OF THE DIAPHRAGM. 701 
the actual nature of this element, and the conditions under 
which it may exist. During the course of any malady 
attacking the nervous, digestive, circulatory or secretive 
systems; in other words, in the course of nearly every disease 
to which the animal body is subject, the action of the intes¬ 
tines must to a certain extent be disturbed, in common with 
other parts, but not on that account the less decidedly. In 
such cases, constipation is one of a number of symptoms 
indicating a certain condition of system; and, as a symptom, 
its removal will naturally follow the restoration to a healthy 
state. The scientific treatment of disease, therefore, will 
include all the means that may tend to cure the affection, of 
w hich constipation is one of the consequences. Purgatives 
may remove the symptom without attacking the essential 
disease, or they may form a necessary part of the therapeutic 
treatment: at present we can only perceive that their action 
is not as a matter of necessity indicated. To make this 
obvious, let us examine the cases where constipation is 
present. 
[To be continued .) 
A CASE OF CHRONIC LESION OF THE DIA¬ 
PHRAGM, RESULTING IN DEATH FROM 
THE ENTRANCE OF INTESTINE INTO THE 
RENT. 
By H. Taylor, M.R.C.Y.S., Hull. 
Dec. 7th, I860.—A day or two ago, I was sent for, late in 
the evening, to see a horse belonging to G. P. R. Neison, 
Esq., of Manor House, Anlaby, near Hull. I was w ith him at 
\ past 11 p.m. and remained until 2 next morning. I 
saw him again at 9 a.m., and at 4 p.m., of the same day; but 
on my last visit, I found he had died just two hours before 
my arrival. 
Mr. Neison is a gentleman who resides generally in London, 
but for the last two months has been living at his country 
residence at Anlaby. He keeps several carriage horses, all 
of which are aged animals. They are in regular work, and, 
before they came here, had generally been in double harness, 
but occasionally in single harness. Prior to the last pair coming 
clown (one of which is the subject of this communication), I 
had been called several times to the .other horses, in conse- 
