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ible. The thoracic lymphatic glands were apparently not affected. 

 The liver contained large whitish fibrous areas scattered throughout its 

 substance, and the diaphragm had attached to its posterior surface a 

 number of yellowish nodules about the size of a pea. The wall of the 

 stomach was very much indurated, being at places about an inch thick 

 from the mucous to the peritoneal surface, and composed of hard, 

 dense, fibrous growth, showing on section here and there small caseous 

 foci, from the size of a pin's head to that of a wheat seed. The internal 

 mucous surface was inflamed, and felt tough. The portion of the organ 



Fig. 75 — Malignant granuloma. Mare: section of lung showing cirrhosis, 

 periarteritis, peribronchitis, and distended lymph spaces. 



affected was chiefly the greater curvature. The supra-renal bodies were 

 enlarged. The ovaries were very much enlarged, and of the same dense 

 fibrous consistency as the other organs affected. The walls of the 

 uterus and of the bladder were also thickened and cedematous, the 

 mucous surfaces being inflamed and raw-looking. The bladder con- 

 tained a quantity of blood-coloured foetid urine and a considerable 

 quantity of calcareous deposit, the mucous membrane being inflamed 

 and haemorrhagic." Specimens of the different organs were preserved 

 in a solution of " formalin." The pathological changes were evidently 



