In the second the coats were healthy and not even softened.

There was absence of softening, erosion, or rupture on the posterior walls.
As illustrative of the amount of paralytic distention that is possible, Bamberger mentions a case in which 70 pounds of fluid filled the stomach.
Voluntary Vomiting .-- It is an interesting fact that some persons exhibit the power of contracting the stomach at will and expelling its contents without nausea.

Montegre mentions a distinguished member of the Faculty of Paris, who, by his own volition and without nausea or any violent efforts, could vomit the contents of his stomach.

In his translation of "Spallanzani's Experiments on Digestion" Sennebier reports a similar instance in Geneva, in which the vomiting was brought about by swallowing air.
In discussing wounds and other injuries of the stomach no chapter would be complete without a description of the celebrated case of Alexis St.
Martin, whose accident has been the means of contributing so much to the knowledge of the physiology of digestion.

This man was a French Canadian of good constitution, robust and healthy, and was employed as a voyageur by the American Fur Company.