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tardily developing icterus, and rapid emaciation, there is an ex- 

 cess of fat in the ill-smelling faeces. Pain on percussion of the 

 right hypochondrium would be an additional feature. 



Treatment can rarely be adopted because of the uncertainty of 

 the diagnosis. It would proceed on general principles, antither- 

 mics, elimiuants, anti.septics, and counterirritants being resorted 

 to as the conditions seem to demand. Alkaline laxatives and 

 diuretics, .salicylates of .soda or potash, and guarded doses of sul- 

 phuric ether to .solicit the action of the pancreas, might be re- 

 sorted to. The disorder of the liver would require attention 

 along the lines indicated under catarrh of that organ. 



INTERSTITIAL PANCREATITIS. 



Causes: paresis, marasmus, septic infection, blood diseases.. L,esions r 

 connective tissue in excess — ^pancreas and liver ; catarrhal complications ; 

 calcic points ; congestion and petechise in septic infection. Areas of fat 

 necrosis in the pancreas and abdominal adipose tissue. Stearates of lime. 

 Calcic foci in animals. Symptoms : obscure. Treatment. 



This is especially liable to accompany paretic and wasting 

 diseases, septic infection, and diseases of the blood. Radionow 

 examined the pancreas in animals that had suffered from chronic 

 paralysis, ga.stro-intestinal catarrh, hepatic catarrh, chronic 

 anaemia and marasmus, and found fatty degeneration of the epi- 

 thelium, with atrophy and pigmentary degeneration of the 

 glandular epithelium. The fibrous tissue of the gland was in 

 excess in the pancreas and in the liver (.sclerosis), and mucous 

 cysts were found. 



Siedamgrotzky found a chronic interstitial pancreatitis con- 

 nected with alopecia, cedema and leucocythseuiia. The pancreas- 

 was indurated, fibrous, resisting the edge of the knife and 

 sprinkled with gritty particles. Much of the glandular tissue 

 had been destroyed, and the ducts were filled with a dense, 

 grayish, grumous mucus. 



Kirilow and Stalnikow have found interstitial pancreatitis- 

 marked by congestion and ecchymosis, with intervening anaemic 



