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ENLARGED AND SCIRRHOUS SPLEEN, 
ACCOMPANIED WITH FARCY. 
By W. T. Stanley, M.R.C.V.S., Leamington. 
The patient was a chestnut-coloured gelding, a first-class 
hunter, 7 years old, and had been under treatment for 
several weeks before I saw him ; but in spite of all that had 
been done, he daily became worse. 
On examining his pulse, I found it ranged from 60 to 70, but 
not wiry; the breathing was quick and interrupted, accompanied 
with a painful grunt; the appetite impaired, legs warm, yet 
the animal was daily becoming weaker, and losing flesh. There 
were also slight indications of inflammation of the superficial 
absorbents. 
From these symptoms, coupled with the fact of the horse 
being a tall and rather narrow-chested animal, and likewise 
from the character of the cough, I was of opinion that his 
lungs were tuberculated, and consequently the prognosis was 
an unfavorable one. I tried setons, with counter-irritation 
and stimulating medicines, but with no material benefit, only 
that for a time this treatment appeared to check the disposition 
to run on to farcy ; but after having been under this treatment 
for six weeks, the disease broke out in a virulent form, 
attended with enlargement of the submaxillary glands on the 
near side. Tonic agents were now prescribed, and continued 
for a month, without any corresponding advantage. The 
horse during all that time never losing his appetite entirely, 
but invariably consuming about half the quantity of food 
requisite for him when in health. When I visited him, I ge- 
nerally found him extended at full length in his box, lying on 
his right, or off side. He was never observed to lie down on 
the near, or left side. After being under treatment for about 
ten weeks, he was suddenly taken much worse, the pulse rose 
to 100, the breathing became more laboured, and in a few days 
he died. 
On the post-mortem examination being made, from his 
long illness, I expected to find the lungs and pleurae very 
much diseased, but on opening the chest, the lungs were 
found to be perfectly healthy, and the pleurae likewise, not the 
slightest amount of disease being perceptible in them. On a 
further examination, after removing the intestines, which 
were also healthy, I found the disease to be located entirely in 
the spleen, which was enormously enlarged, and in a scir- 
rhous state, having its peritoneal capsule firmly attached to 
its substance, and the organ, when abstracted, weighed thirty- 
