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The patient (a mongrel fox terrier) weighed Jii- pounds, and two 

 hpomas weighing respectively 8 pounds and 2 pounds were removed un 

 post-mortem examination. The larger one measured 22j- by 25j inches, 

 and the smaller one i^\ by i6j inches. 



Granuloma. 



The term granuloma indicates a bacterial tumour, not a 

 neoplasm, and the growth is formed of granulation tissue 



Fig. 48. — Microphotograph of a Granuloma.^ 



due to the irritation produced by some specific organism, 

 such as that of tuberculosis, glanders, actinomycosis, and 

 others (such as the contagious venereal tumours alluded to 

 on pp. 171 and 291), of which the organism has not yet 

 been discovered. With most granulomata the specific 

 disease can be transmitted by subcutaneous transplanta- 

 tion of diseased tissue or by scarification of, and application 

 to, mucous surfaces. 



1 For this 1 am indebted to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. 



