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walnut to a goose egg and larger, and seemed upon section to 
consist of hypertrophied-glandular tissue. The spleen which 
ordinarily would have weighed one and one - half pounds 
weighed nineteen and one-half pounds, and measured thirty! 
two inches in length, nine inches in breadth, and three inches 
m the thickest portion. Upon section the malphigian corpus¬ 
cles presented themselves as nearly whitish bodies, many of 
them one-third to one-half inch in diameter. The remainder of 
t le splenic pulp was normal in color and consistence. The 
result of a microscopic examination of the blood showed one 
win e blood corpuscle to twenty red.” The prescapular lym¬ 
phatic glands weighed three pounds apiece, the bronchial 
glands one and one-half pounds, and the deep iliac two pounds 
Some of the superfacial lymphatic glands were sufficiently en- 
aiged to be located upon ante-mortem examination. Dr. Stew- 
art also reports a case of leucocythaemia in a St. Bernard doo. 
■ . T ' ( :f rnacllan > of this city, reports an interesting case 
lee^ abouTt WS : “ T® SubjeCt ° f tllis case was a western 
steer, about three years of age. Nothing unusual was presented 
tbe frdln 111-llla n ce j lt ' 1 ’ but on post-mortem examination 
the following well-defined lesions were presented to view The 
spleen was very much enlarged in all its dimensions. The 
length was such as to cause it to cross the abdominal cavity 
and then curl up, turn over past the centre of the diaphragm. 
weig ed almost ioo pounds. The liver was enlarged and of 
AlI e lL Pa i e / 0lOr ’ 1 th6 f T COndition a PP'yiiig to the heart. 
All the abdominal and thoracic lymphatic glands were very 
much enlarged and of the same color as the heart and liver 
The flesh of the carcass was of a pale hue and very flabby in 
consistency. The animal was much thinner in flesh thaiAhe 
balance of same bunch.” 
Dl ; Carnachan also reports a case in a hog as follows * “The 
In mTLf aSe I a T illed in FebrUary ’ l8 99 - Not seeing the 
animal before death can give no ante-mortem report, but on 
post-mortem I noticed it being much thinner than the rest of 
ie uncli, but not enough to pronounce it emaciated. The 
handwf r0U ? 1 °a er T gre3ter P art ° f the bod y. which when 
landled was found to be a mass of small nodular enlargements. 
which contained pus. The skin was of a yellowish hue. The 
bladder was unusually large for such a small animal. The 
enlamed a T d T ° f k a ^ ?* le C ° lor - The S P ,een was 111 uch 
enlarged, also the abdominal and thoracic lymphatic glands 
especially those of the pelvic and sublumbar regions. '’These 
