OPERATIONS ON THE OMENTUM, LIVER, ETC. 219 



sufficient pedicle to permit of this procedure.' Even this had 

 better be done with a clamp and the actual cauter}- (a heated 

 scalpel does well), as the li\'er tissue is so vascular and friable 

 that it does not lend itself well to the application of sutures. 

 If a rupture is onh- suspected and the symptoms are not 



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Fig. 143.— Inoperable Sarcomata of the Li\er in the Abdomen 



of an Irish Terrier Dog. 



A, C, Liver tissue ; B, gall-bladder ; D, stomach ; EEE, sarcomata ; F, intestine. 



urgent, rest and haemostatic medicine internally is the best 

 course to adopt. Some of the tumours attached to the 

 liver are of enormous size, and in time almost fill up the 

 abdomen, giving to the bitch or female cat the appear- 

 ance of pregnancy, and to the male that of ascites, from 



' Journal of Comparative Pathology and T/icrapeiitics, vol. \i., p. 251 

 (Nelder and Hobday). 



