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of the mesentery. The whole of the bowels appeared perfectly 
healthy, excepting about a foot, which was twisted, in consequence 
of the enlargement above alluded to ; the tumour having become 
entangled with that part of the bowels, so as to prevent the possi- 
bility of any thing passing. 
The singularity of this case, and the reason I trouble you with 
it, is the extraordinary size and appearance of the enlargement, 
for which I am at a loss for a name ; although, in my opinion, it 
may be cancerous. I have, however, reserved a portion of it, 
which I beg to submit for your examination. Should you consider 
the case worthy a place in your journal, I shall feel great pleasure 
in reading your remarks upon it. 
*** The portion of the tumour kindly sent us by Mr. Simmons 
for examination exhibits all the callosity and uniform whiteness 
of scirrhus. And, though it is wanting in the arboriform distri- 
bution of its veins, which is said to be denotive of carcinoma, 
or cancer, yet is it ampty furnished with bloodvessels, and with 
large ones too. And so truly lardaceous in appearance are some 
parts of its interior, that we were tempted — by way of fur- 
ther test — to boil a piece of it : as was anticipated, however, not a 
particle of fat or oil was extractible from it. Its general texture 
appears to be Jibro- cartilaginous. Under the knife it evinces a 
leathery toughness and indurated smoothness ; in places feeling 
fibrous or grating to the cut. We feel disposed to agree in opi- 
nion with Mr. Simmons, and regard the tumour as carcinomatous , 
or cancerous in its nature ; and what strengthens this opinion is, 
the presence of a cyst in its interior, about the size of a small 
marble, containing a soft, cheese-like, dingy yellow-looking matter, 
indicating imperfect or unhealthy suppuration and abscess, evi- 
dently the commencement of something very similar to that which 
is known as the cancerous degeneration. And were we, from the 
isolated portion sent us, to venture an opinion respecting its origin, 
we should say it took its rise in disease of the mesentric glands. — 
Ed. Vet. 
CASE OF ENORMOUS TUMOUR CAUSING SEMBLANCE 
OF PREGNANCY. 
By A. B. Henderson, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
The following singular case of pseudo-pregnancy, from the 
appearances which it assumed and the symptoms it gave rise to, 
semblant of those of utero-gestation, seeming to me to possess a 
