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organs, when removed, were healthy. The lungs highly con¬ 
gested, free from glanderous deposits; heart, liver and spleen 
free from disease. 
The right kidney was very much enlarged, somewhat con¬ 
gested and softened, and weighed 36 ounces. 
In the left lumbar region, at the location of the left kidney, 
was a large elongated tumor, from the posterior portion of 
which extended the fistulous track. 
On dissection, the tumour was found to be resting on the 
lumbar aponeurosis, and when separated from the surrounding 
tissue was found to be entirely external to the psoas muscles, but 
involving the left kidney in its mass. It measured in length 13 
inches, and 19 in circumference. 
On being placed on a table, the tumour was soft and fluctuat¬ 
ing, and when opened allowed the escape of 13 ounces of thick 
pus, mixed with thick masses, all contained in a large unilocular 
cavity, irregular in shape. The smell of this discharge was very 
offensive. The cavity involved the parenchyma of the kidney, 
in its two posterior thirds, the organ being surrounded by a hard, 
thick coat of organized exudation. 
There was no opening from the sac into the pelvis of the 
kidney. The anterior portion of the kidney was of its normal 
color, and terminated in a heart-shaped end. 
The septum nasi presented a few ulcerative patches; the 
mucous membrane was rosy in color. The turbinated bone had 
also a few abrasions, ulcer-like in appearance. 
The horse was sold at public auction, at one of the most re¬ 
spectable places in the city, perfectly healthy on the Friday, and 
found abandoned the following Sunday, because of a fear that he 
I)ad farcy. 
Was this an attack of acute farcy, or glanders, or a case of 
pyemia, due to the absorption of the pus from the abscesses ? 
