American Veterinary Review, 
DECEMBER, 1879. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES AND REPORTS OF CASES. 
LARGE ABDOMINAL HEM ATOM ATOUS GROWTHS - 
CHRONIC PERITONITIS-DEATH. 
By A. LIAUTARD, M.D., V.S. 
The aetiology of colics and tlieir complications is a subject 
which presents itself in a practitioner’s calls under different lights, 
and the true diagnosis of the nature of these disturbances is often 
a source of hesitancy and difficulty, which are such that often the 
veterinarian has nothing left to him but to result to expectant 
treatment, that of symptoms. The case which is reported under 
the above heading is presented not only on account of the im¬ 
portant and enormous lesions which were found at the post 
mortem, hut also to guard the practitioner against the possibility 
of an error in aetiology, though in this case it proved to be one 
of the rarest occurrence. 
That diseases of important organs as the liver or the kidneys 
should have been considered as the cause of the disease of the 
animal subject to this case, is nothing strange; but post mortem 
revealed the existence of lesions which, in their nature, as far as 
we know, have not yet been recorded. 
The following history, obtained from the Assistant Veterinary 
Surgeon of the hospital department of the American Veterinary 
College, with the post mortem lesions as described by Mr. Zuill, 
student at the college, will prove interesting. 
