542 Veterinary Medicuie. 



Galland found an abscess as big as a walnut in the pancreas of 

 a horse which had multiple tumors in the abdomen. 



Symptoms. Colics occur from the local phlegmon, and it may- 

 be from its pressure on the duodenum so as to obstruct it, and this 

 appearing in the course of strangles would indicate a forming ab- 

 dominal abscess. Staring coat or shivering may coincide. Ten- 

 derness of the abdominal walls has been noticed by Reimers, to- 

 gether with a partial loss of appetite and a characteristically rapid 

 emaciation. Fatty stools, if present, would be almost the only 

 pathognomonic .symptom. 



Prognosis is that the abscess will open into the abdomen, and 

 cause fatal infective peritonitis. It is only as an exceptional oc- 

 currence that its rupture into the duodenum or colon can be hoped 

 for, 3'et in such a case recover}' is po.ssible. 



Treatment. Little can be done. It would be well to treat the 

 constitutional symptoms, and await results. 



FOREIGN BODIES IN THE PANCREAS. 



Briickmiiller has noticed needles and other sharp objects in the 

 pancreas of the dog, determining ab.scess and the formation of a 

 thick, greeni.sh pus in the adjacent glandular follicles. Goubaux 

 once found a fragment of straw in the pancreatic duct of the horse. 

 Such conditions are not likely to be diagnosed, but if this could 

 be done laparotomy might be permissible in the dog for the re- 

 moval of the foreign body. 



