BOWEL, RUPTURE OF. – A ruptured bowel may be caused by an injury, such as a kick, a fall when the bowels are full of injesta, or by a calculus or stone which has gradually formed, wearing the bowel thin, and so readily torn or slit. Such cases end fatally.
[The Stockowner’s Vetenary Aid, A. H. Archer, pg 20]
GD Bates 