102 SCROFULOUS DISEASE OF THE EYE-BALL, ETC. 
condition, and no obstruction was detected throughout the 
whole length of the tube. The lungs and kidneys were 
normal. 
The heart was empty and rather flabby, and the spleen was 
filled with black blood. No history of the case was obtained 
possessing any points of interest. The dog was exceedingly 
fat, as pet dogs commonly are, and appeared to have enjoyed 
an average good health. 
Examination of the morbid parts. — Messrs. Gowing and 
Son forwarded the liver, heart, and spleen of, the dog referred 
to in the above record, for our inspection. Fatty deposits in 
the liver of fat animals are very common ; but the organ in 
this instance might almost be said to have undergone fatty 
metamorphosis, if such a change is possible among patho- 
logical conditions. Estimating the bulk of the diseased 
organ roughly, we should say it was three or four times larger 
than the healthy gland ; so large, indeed, that it must have 
encroached to a serious extent upon the other abdominal 
viscera. In texture the organ was granular, yellow in colour, 
and offered to the edge of the knife the resistance of a mass 
of lard. 
Under the microscope no healthy liver cells were detected, 
the entire structure was filled with fat globules, which not only 
occupied the interior of the cells, but existed everywhere in 
the tissue of the part, large granular exudation cells, of the 
kind which is often seen in encephaloid growths, were 
numerous, but no other elements of cancer were observed. 
Fatty degeneration affected the fibres of the heart to a 
remarkable extent ; in fact, from the state of the organ, it is 
certain that the circulation must have been extremely feeble. 
The spleen was congested, but not otherwise diseased. 
SCROFULOUS DISEASE OF THE EYE-BALL AND 
TRACHEAL LYMPHATIC GLANDS. 
By Richard S. Reynolds, M.R.C.Y.S., Liverpool. 
The subject of this record, a bay cart-mare, was purchased 
for town work in January, 1868, and was then rising six 
years old. At that time she was blind of the near eye, which 
presented the appearance of having been severely injured at 
some antecedent period. Compared with the opposite per- 
fectly healthy organ the affected eye protruded very slightly 
