liver and stomach springs chiefly from two causes-either from the relaxation or paresis of the abdominal muscles which maintain the visceral shelves on which these organs are supported or, as is more frequently the case, the body cavity is constricted by clothing or contorted by disease, so that the normal respiration swing forwards cannot take place. In either case the visceral displacements are much the same. F!.:. 14. A cas8 of partial ptosis of the viscera in a woman, aged 45 ' years. The

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... ist, which measured 26 inches in circumference, was reduced to 22 inches by corsets. The viscera were then hardened in situ by the injection of formalin. The duodenum descended as far as the brim of the pelvis.