LARGE HEMATOMATOUS GROWTHS. 
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by cysts of different sizes in different stages of organization; 
some were soft and transparent and contained a clear serosity, while 
others were hard and contained fibrinous deposits varying in aspect 
and color, some being dark and black in appearance. On being 
opened, this large hematomatous growth exhibited deposits of 
fibrin in different stages of consistency, varying between the 
recently formed clot and the hardened well organized deposit. In 
the center was found a large cyst filled with dark recently-thrown- 
off and quite liquid blood. Here and there were found in the 
walls of some of the cysts, calcareous deposits, some of which 
were about half an inch square in size, others much smaller. 
These were principally found at the point of insertion of the 
pedunculum of the mesentery. 
The stomach having been removed, was then examined. On 
looking over the part of the abdominal organs, which represent 
this organ, one is surprised by its enormous size and its aspect. 
It represents a huge mass covered with a very thick layer of 
peritoneum pithed as by many cicatrizes or holes. It consists of 
the stomach itself much shrunken and empty and of an enormous 
hematomatous growth, which measures fifty-six inches in its large 
circumference, following the long axis of the stomach, and forty- 
six in its smaller diameter. This is partly sub-peritoneal—only, 
but here and there it is spreading through the muscular coat. 
Towards the small curvature, there is between the peritoneal 
layer a large clot of recent formation: the tumor divided in its 
long axis, the walls of the cysts are found considerably swollen 
in thickness and divided into cells containing organized fibrin in 
different stages. 
The presence of these large tumors is a fact of unusual 
interest, as, so far as I can find, no cases of similar nature are 
found on record. By what pathological process they were devel¬ 
oped in this animal, at what might looked the beginning and the 
end of the intestinal canal, is a question which I regret to say 
the post mortem, carefully as it was made, has not allowed us to 
make out. 
