SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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A LARGE ABDOMINAL TUMOR. 
By Wm. R. Claussen, Y.S. 
August 22 Mr. Tom. Parker, of Iola, sent for me to attend 
a three year-old colt. I found her lying in the yard evincing 
symptoms of abdominal pain. Mr. Parker told me the animal 
had been bought two months previous, had never been sick, 
was a free driver, and a good feeder. During the last two 
weeks Mr. Parker had noticed the colt stretching as if making 
an effort to urinate, but as urine was freely passed and she ate 
well, no attention was paid to this. He also noticed that when 
turned loose with her mate, she would never kick and run, 
but simply trot off at a good "speed ; this, he thought, was 
because the colt was of a very kind and quiet disposition. In 
the harness she was all ambition and had often covered a mile 
in five minutes. Examination revealed nothing but great 
quantities of faeces, of which nothing of any consequence had 
been passed during the last twenty-four hours. Temperature 
ioi^°, respiration normal, pulse firm and a little accelerated, 
1% gr. eserine and i gr. philocarpine were administered. In 
thirty minutes faeces were freely passed and continued to 
pass at intervals for about two hours. The animal appeared 
relieved, and I left, instructing Mr. Parker to telephone me 
if the colt should be taken worse. This was at 2 p. M. The 
horse was taken sick again at 11 P. M., but soon got quiet; the 
pain returned at intervals through the night; the horse, during 
these spells, tried to place herself on her back. At 2 A. M. 
she broke out in a cold sweat and commenced to vomit, 
which was kept up uninterruptedly through the night till 6 
A. M , when she reared and fell dead. At the autopsy a tumor, 
weighing six pounds, was found on the mesentery close to the 
jejunum, about fourteen inches from the pyloric orifice. The 
tumor was heart-shaped and consisted of a hard, glistening 
white mass, but covered with a soft hyperasmic membrane, 
which formed a fringe about two inches wide along the centre 
of the growth. At the broadest part, the base, I detected 
fluctuation and found about half a pint of thin, cream-colored, 
foetid pus in a multilocular cavity. The mesentery around the 
