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Among the most striking symptoms of splenic leukaemia 
are to be reckoned haemorrhages. 
The intestinal evacuations are interfered with; at first 
constipation alternates with diarrhoea, while later the diarrhaea 
predominates, become copious and frequent, and sometimes 
bloody. 
The urine excretion is in most cases normal in quantity, 
but towards the end always diminished. 
In most cases a considerable disturbance in the tempera¬ 
ture is manifested ; in the early stages there is only slight varia¬ 
tion, but where the disease is well advanced there is always 
fever of the remittent or of the continuous type. 
The appetite, in most cases normal, is rarely diminished, 
but is sometimes much increased. 
The complications may be summed up as serous or 
sanguineo-serous exudations into the cranial, pleural and 
abdominal cavities, oedema and congestion of the lungs, 
pleuritic and peritoneal inflammations and adhesions, and 
thrombi from the plugging up of the vessels by leucocytes. 
The course of the disease is slow and chronic. In excep¬ 
tional instances, usually in young subjects, it runs a rapid 
course ; but acute leukaemia is rare. 
Death takes place usually by asthesia, a gradually pro¬ 
gressive weakness, and finally heart failure. Diarrhoea and 
haemorrhages hasten the result. Pyaemia and rupture of the 
spleen are mentioned as causes of death in some cases. 
The positive diagnosis depends upon the determination of 
a great and persistent increase in the white blood corpuscles. 
The prognosis is unfavorable in the highest degree. When 
firmly established, the spleen and glands enlarged, the blood 
condition marked, and haemorrhages and dropsies present, 
death is the only termination to be expected. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS, 
THE INDIANA. ASSOCIATION OF VETERINARY GRADUATES. 
The annual meeting of the Indiana Association of Veteriuary Graduates 
was held at the State House, Indianapolis, January 7th and 8th. 
Oq the evening of the 7th, in the absence of the President and Vice-Presi¬ 
dents, the meeting was called to order by the Secretary, Dr. H. Macaulay. 
