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points as the larger. The spleen, twice its normal size, of a 
steel blue color with knotty surface; peritoneal covering 
smooth, bright and not thickened; spleen pulp apparently of 
healthy quality, punctated by small tumors scattered through 
its parenchyma. The latter growth varied from a pea to a 
goose egg in dimensions ; the largest of these was yellow¬ 
ish white externally, but when cut contained a cavity holding 
a brown fluid ; the smaller tumors had no fluctuating ten¬ 
dency and were hard. 
The liver likewise contained swelling, but in lesser quantity, 
and was otherwise healthy. Lungs were also characterized 
by metastatic tumors, a few of which, as in the spleen, exhibited 
the cystic formation. In the vicinity of the pleura pericar- 
dialis, innumerable small tumors not unlike tubercular forma¬ 
tion in aspect, which when cut contained a red fluid. 
The microscopic examination, which embraced the teased 
tissues and fluids stained with picro-carmine, was successful 
in exposing large, round cells having a nucleus and granular 
contents. The fluid contents of the tumors were constituted 
by the same cells and detritus .—Berliner Wochenschrift . 
ACTINOMYCES EQUI. 
On August 8th of this year, a young horse was brought 
to us with the history that for about six weeks he had ac¬ 
quired upon his left hip a tumor of appreciable size—about 
ten centimeters in diameter. The latter was of a regularly 
rounded contour, hard, and without pain upon manipulation ; 
movable under the cuticle, and very loosely attached to the 
subcutaneous tissues. 
In my opinion we had to do with either a fibroma, or a 
collection of serum from a contusion. We proceeded to con¬ 
sider the most advantageous manner of removing the en¬ 
largement, and commenced in the following way: The new 
formation was pushed as far up on the gluteal muscles as pos¬ 
sible, and incised in a perpendicular direction, coming by this 
means upon a hard, fibrous capsule. Continuing, we finally 
exposed a tough, yellowish mass, spotted in one place by a 
