Ruptured Diaphragm generally produces a soft cough; sitting on the haunches or leaning on the chest may or may not be present; the countenance is haggard.
Ruptured Spleen answers to the tests described under "Hemorrhage of the Liver."
Ruptured Stomach is characterized by excessive colic, followed by tympanitis.
Introsusception possibly may be relieved by the inhalation of a full dose of chloroform; but the result is always uncertain.
Invagination is attended with the greatest possible agony.
Strangulation is not to be distinguished, during life, from invagination.
Calculus causes death by impactment; but however different the causes of abdominal injury may be, they each produce the greatest agony, which conceals the other symptoms, and makes all such injuries apparently the same while the life lasts.
ACITES, OR DROPSY OF THE ABDOMEN.
Cause.—Chronic peritonitis.