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A generous diet was ordered; vegetable tonics with antiseptic 
given. The appetite improved, but she gradually wasted and 
dropped dead about three months afterwards. 
At post mortem, lungs, heart, intestines and kidneys were found 
healthy; the liver twice its natural size, and filled with hun¬ 
dreds of small abscesses. The uterus contained a mass the size of 
a man’s fist, the remains of the skeleton of the foetus. The coats of 
the uterus thickened.— Veterinarian. 
NATURE OF A TUMOR OF THE SPLEEN IN THE DOG. 
By John W. Steel, M.R.C.Y.S. 
A bull terrier bitch, advanced in age, supposed to be pregnant, 
with an abdomen inconveniently large, quite fat, and had never 
been sick, presented on examination of the abdominal walls, a 
large tumor, which was diagnosed to be of ovarian nature. 
When taken up, the tumor proved to be five inches long by four 
wide, and three thick—it weighed over one pound and three- 
quarters ; it was somewhat ovoid, apparently cystic, and multi- 
locular, having part of the great omentum appended to it, and a 
considerable portion of spleen directly continuous with its sub¬ 
stance. On section, it was found to consist of straw-colored de¬ 
posits in the parts nearest to the spleen substance, but on the 
farthest side, of recent accumulation of coagulated blood. The 
tumor evidently consists essentially of a number of blood clots, de¬ 
scending the natural venous sinuses, and intralocular spaces of 
the spleen. The straw-colored parts seem as if the result of 
extravasation some short time before, but the red parts are evi¬ 
dently quite recent, and serve to illustrate the true nature of the 
mass. This seems to account for the fact that the appended por¬ 
tion of the spleen is quite healthy, which also proves the absence 
of lymphadenomatous or tuberculous condition.— Veterinarian. 
