460 DISEASES OE THE LIVER AND SPLEEN. 



one above the otlier, on the gastric surface of the spleen/^ It 

 evidently had originated in the spleen — small portions of 

 what remained of that viscus were found changing their 

 colour : there were all shades of change ; and the altered 

 parts were of various size and structure. In some places 

 there was an appearance of brain. It was a carcinomatous 

 affection of the spleen_, containingtumours of that kind termed 

 cephalomatous. For a further and most accurately detailed 

 account of this tumour, we must refer our readers to ^ The 

 Veterinarian^ for 1834. 



Mr. Smith Huntley reports the following interesting 

 autopsy in ^ The Veterinarian^ for 1837 : 



In February last, Mr. Huntley was called to a mare be- 

 longing to Mr. Christie, surgeon ; whom, on his arrival, he 

 found dead. The bowels were highly infiamed. The spleen 

 enlarged, weighing upwards of fifty pounds, and in a com- 

 plete state of scirrhus. The pancreas was in a similar con- 

 dition, and weighed more than thirty pounds. Also a small 

 portion of the right lobe of the liver was so affected. The 

 mare^s prominent symptom was, falling away in flesh, al- 

 though still feeding well, and up to within a short time of 

 her death doing her ordinary work, '' although not with any 

 comfort.^^ 



The following case of Melanotic Disease of the Spleen, 

 Liver, Intestines, Peritoneum, and Abdominal Parietes, 

 occurred to the late Mr. John Field, from whose ' Post- 

 humous Veterinary Records^ I extract it : 



" A grey gelding, belonging to Mr. A , was brought 



to London on the 12th of February, 18 — : he had been for 

 some time previous muph debilitated, and unable to work. 

 The coachman supposed he was ' rotten/ The horse was 

 very old. 



" February 13th. — I was this day called in to attend 

 him, when the following symptoms were observable : viz., 

 loss of appetite ; partial sweats ; sighing ; pulse 42 and very 

 feeble; respiration accelerated; restlessness ; membranes, 

 conjunctive and buccal, blanched; curling and pouting of the 

 upper lip, which the coachman had also noticed : from this 



