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DISEASED SPLEEN. 
have passed or rejected one hundred and twenty horses, two days 
would be 240, and the third day the remainder of these are 
said to have passed the ordeal. 
1 don’t stop to inquire v:liat hind of examinations as to soundness 
these could have been, but only mention what I read in a paper 
a few weeks ago. Nor do I think I am called upon to make 
any comment upon it. It may be said of such Verrimus 
ad summam fortunae.” 
[To be continued.) 
A DISEASED SPLEEN. 
By A. Rushall, M.R.C.V.S., Bishop Stortford. 
November 1st, 1862. 
Dear Sir, —I have sent by rail a hamper containing a 
diseased spleen. 
Of the history of the case I know nothing, except that 
it was taken from a mare seventeen years old, and that she 
had had several foals. She w'as destroyed yesterday. The 
case appears rather singular to me, and should it be in any 
way so to you, I will try and get all the information 1 can on 
the subject. The spleen is just as I received it from the 
slaughterers. 
I am, yours truly. 
Professor Vaeneli. 
REMARKS ON THE ABOVE BY PROFESSOR YARNELL. 
The diseased spleen referred to in the above communi¬ 
cation is very interesting, not particularly on account of its 
size, for we have seen much larger, but from the peculiar 
character of the elements upon which its bulk depends. It 
was not weighed, but, judging from others, it could not have 
been less than twenty-five pounds in weight. Its surfaces 
and borders, the former especially, were irregularly nodulated, 
the nodules varying in size from that of a walnut to a large¬ 
sized hen’s egg. Many of them were dark in colour, others 
much lighter, but there were a few that were mottled, being 
light in some places and dark coloured in others. Its con¬ 
sistence also varied; as a whole, it was much firmer than 
natural, and with regard to the nodules, this was particularly 
