562 Veterinary Medicine. 



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 duodneum so as to obstruct it, and 

 this appearing in the course of strangles would indicate a forming 

 abdominal abscess. Staring coat or shivering may coincide. 

 Tenderness of the abdominal walls has been noticed by Reimers, 

 together 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, yet in such a case recovery is possible. 



Treatment. I,ittle 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 abscess and the formation of a 

 thick, greenish 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 removal of the foreign body. 



