“38 DADD’S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY, 
f mine, located in a cattle-raising district in the State of Maine 
informed me that this disease, accompanied by enlargement, often 
prevails there enzodtically, and that most of the animals thus 
affected dic. I have had considerable experience in the treatiaent 
of such affections in horses, but, as I have just observed, the result 
is very unsatisfactory. I believe I have but one case cf care on 
record, and the medicines used on that occasion were stimulants 
and tonics, with forty grains of iodide of potass per day. Tha 
spine was also rubbed, night and anorning, with equal parts of 
vod-liver oil and spirits of camphor. 
ENLARGEMENT OF THE SPLEEN. 
Syryuums.—The symptoms of enlargement of the spleen in 
horses (they do not differ much in cattle) are as folluws: Feeble 
pulse; respiration not much disturbed; the tongue is usually 
coated; mouth, hot, and the breath has a feted odor; the mem. 
branes lining the mouth and eyeballs have a slight yellow tinge; 
the head droops, and the tips of the ears and lower parts of the 
limbs are chilly; the patient is rather unwilling to move, and, 
when urged to do so, exhibits a staggering gait, and sometimes falls 
never to rise; the urine is scanty, and, in the last stages, blood 
oozes from the anus and nostrils; colicky pains attend the disease. 
In a case that terminated fatally, I made the following record 
of the post-mortem examination: On opening the abdominal cav- 
ity, the spleen was found to occupy a very large space. It was 
of immense proportions, and weighed nearly twelve pounds. The 
ordinary weight is three pounds. It presented the appearance 
of a spleen in the chronic stage of disease, being altered in struc- 
tvre, of a dark, pitchy color, and surcharged with dark, venous 
blood. Before death, I percussed the left side, in the locality of 
the spleen, and the sound elicited was of a solid character, which 
indscated enlargement of the same. 
The early symptoms of splenic apoplexy do not differ muck 
frora the above, only they are of a more acute character. In the 
latte, stages, the mals ly is complicated with a painful affection of 
the bowels. The diagnostic symptom of splenic apoplexy, with 
enlargement of the same, is a notable enlargement on the left side 
of the abdomen, well up toward the ribs. When standing behind 
an affected animal, and casting one’s eyes carefully along the 
sides of the abdomina: walls, a perceptible eminence wil] be sen, 
