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CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY. 
By Mr. Youatt. 
No. XIV. 
Scrofulous Tumours — Tuberculated Spleen. 
(Before I had begun to try the Hydriodate of Potash.) 
1833, Aug. 14 th. — Monkey. A hard tumour, enclosed in a 
dense cyst, with a slight opening, whence proceeds an ichorous 
discharge, has lately appeared in the axilla, and is growing. I 
would take it out, but 1 know not how I should contrive to keep 
on any bandage. I scraped a stick of nitrate of silver to a fine 
point, and introduced it into the opening, and worked it almost 
the whole of the way round the enclosed tumour. 
12 th. — I had hoped that the tumour would have slipped or 
sloughed out. Apply the caustic again. 
Sep. 4th. — The tumour is very much diminished, and the ori- 
fice closing. 
8th. — Tumour continuing to diminish. 
14^. — The old tumour has subsided, but a little crop of mi- 
nute ones is beginning to grow' around the situation of the old 
one. It is very difficult and dangerous to him and us to catch 
him : let him alone for awhile. 
I was absent during a month. 
Oct. 2 Oih. — The old tumour is again beginning to grow ; but 
it seems to be of a soft spongy nature, and around it are nume- 
rous pustular eruptions. We cannot force him with the iodine. 
Let him alone. 
31s£. — The tumour has diminished, and the eruption dried up ; 
but both have appeared under the left arm, with considerable 
discharge from the pustules. What is to be done ? He would 
fight to the last before he was secured, and then, not even one 
dose of medicine could be forced on him. Let him alone. 
Nov. 13 th. — The swelling is diminishing, and the pustules 
scaling off. 
2 Oth. — Although the new swelling under the left arm had 
been diminishing, the monkey had been growing weaker, and 
could scarcely get on its perch. This morning he was found 
dead. The post-mortem examination discovered no cause for 
sudden death, but a great deal of chronic disease. The lungs 
were emphysematous — the liver yielded to the slightest touch — 
the spleen was more than treble its natural size, and tuberculated 
