Arton reports the case of a negro of fifty who suffered from tympanites.

He was a hard drinker and had been aspirated several times, gas heavily laden with odors of the milk of asafetida being discharged with a violent rush.

The man finally died of his malady, and at postmortem it was found that his stomach had burst, showing a slit four inches long.

The gall bladder contained two quarts of inspissated bile.

Fulton mentions a case of rupture of the esophageal end of a stomach in a child.