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The day succeeding, physical symptoms more intense ; on 
the third day the same still more pronounced, together with great 
debility, anaemia of visible membranes, and oedema along the 
median line, extending from the pectoral muscles to the prepuce. 
Patient succumbed on this date. 
Upon post-mortem fifteen quarts of a reddish yellow fluid 
were obtained from the abdominal cavity. The liver enormously 
hypertrophied, occupied both the right and left hypochondrial 
and supra-sternal regions. Lymphatic glands along the colon and 
caecum enlarged to equal one’s fist in dimensions, in the folds of 
the messentery reddish-gray globular nodules in abundance. 
These glands were soft, and upon transverse section offered a 
grayish surface streaked with reddish lines. 
At the apex of the caecum a blueish red formation as large 
as a goose egg. Lining membranes of the stomach normal. In¬ 
terior of the small intestine opaque and gray red ; the same of the 
colon and caecum exhibits hemorrhagic infiltration with several 
erosions the size of a nickel piece. 
The liver weighed eighty-four pounds ; was eight inches in 
thickness, and forty inches broad ; reddish and friable. Upon 
section the same peculiar strips of coloring as observed in the 
lymph glands. In the hepatic parenchyma innumerable tumors 
no larger than a mustard kernel. Lobes of the organ obliterated 
and not distinguishable; several cavities within surrounded by 
dark-red walls. Spleen swollen and measuring twenty inches in 
length, sixteen in breadth, and two in thickness ; gray-blue ex¬ 
ternally, and yielding, not to say mushy to the touch. 
Malpighian corpuscles exceptionally large. Both kidneys 
hypertrophied and soft, with light yellow lines running from the 
papillae to the cortex. Contents of the infundibulum and pelvis 
mixed with pus and mucous. 
Bronchial and laryngeal lymphatic glands augmented. Vet¬ 
erinary literature shows no other similar case of leucaemic infiltra¬ 
tion of the liver; the exceeding size of the latter induced the 
intra vitam dyspnoea.— Ztsch. f. Vet. Knnde, IV, 21, 
