CASE OF TUMOUR OF SPLEEN. 
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ease at its first appearance in domesticated animals are un¬ 
known ; but later on leucaemia, in spite of retention of the 
full appetite, produces gradual wasting, palor of visible 
mucous membrane, slight acceleration of pulse, debility, in 
fact, all the symptoms of impoverishment of the blood. At 
the same time the spleen and lymphatic glands increase in 
size. But observation of the blood of the living animal 
proves the best means of diagnosis. Death occurs at a 
period varying from three weeks to five months. None of 
the therapeutic methods noticed by the author have been 
proved to be useful. 
CASE OF TUMOUR OF SPLEEN. 
By Harold Leeney, M.R.C.Y.S., Brighton. Examined 
and reported on by John Henry Steel. 
On Monday, January 26th, received from Harold Leeney, 
M.R.C.V.S., of Brighton, a tumour from the abdominal 
cavity of a bull-terrier bitch with the accompanying history : 
—“ The patient was an aged animal, supposed to be pregnant, 
her abdomen being inconveniently large, and so causing her 
to appear ‘ rather disposed to a razor back,’ though she was 
fairly fat. She was in good condition, having been accustomed 
to take a good deal of exercise on her own account, having 
been several times taken into custody when on a poaching ex¬ 
pedition. She had never been observed to be out of health. 
There was no difficulty in detecting the tumour during life. 
At the time the animal came to me I observed an enlarge¬ 
ment under the jaw, just such a one as we often see resulting 
from a fight, and on opening it I found genuine pus and 
nothing more. I had had a case of tuberculosis in a mastiff 
belonging to the same individual shortly before. I dia¬ 
gnosed the case as one of ovarian tumour.” 
The specimen was about five inches long by four wide, 
and three thick, and weighed a little over one pound and three 
quarters (with the appended portion of spleen), somewhat 
ovoid, apparently cystic and multilocular, having part of the 
great omentum appended to it, and a considerable portion 
of spleen directly continuous with its substance. On 
section it was found to consist of straw-coloured deposits 
in the parts nearest to the spleen substance, but on the 
farthest side of recent accumulations of coagulated blood. 
Evidently the tumour consists essentially of a number of 
blood-clots distending the natural venous sinuses and inter- 
