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been found. Unless connected with cirrhosis or other serious disease of the hepatic tissue, their presence seems to have no pathological significance.

Carcinoma. This has been recorded in the liver of cattle by Gurlt, Brückmüller, Kitt and others. From the walls of the gall bladder it grows in pyriform masses, and on the surface and in the interior of the liver, it may appear as hard, cancerous masses of all sizes.

Epithelioma. This has been described by Kitt, Martin, Blanc, Leblanc, Morot, Cadeac, and Besnoit. It appears in masses varying in size from a millet seed up, bulging from the surface of the organ or deeply hidden in its substance, and stained yellow or green with bile.

The liver is usually enlarged, amounting to even 34 pounds (Cadeac).

The formation commencing in the acini invades all surrounding parts causing compression and atrophy of the liver cells, and the formation of nests of epithelioid cells often with multiple nuclei and nucleoli. Cirrhosis is not uncommon, and fatty and other degenerations. Microbic invasion and necrobiosis are also common.

NEOPLASMS IN THE SHEEP’S LIVER. Adenoma has been met with by McFadyean, Johne, Kitt and Bollinger. They hung as pediculated tumors from the surface of the liver, and were in part wedged into its substance displacing the hepatic tissue and vessels. In general they consisted of a dense fibrous stroma with cylindroid and biliary cells in great abundance, sometimes arranged in tubular form. Specimens described by Kitt and Bollinger attained to the size of a man’s head and were stained of a deep green color.

Carcinoma. Casper reports a case of hepatic cancer in the sheep secondary to cancer of the mesentery.

NEOPLASMS IN THE DOG’S LIVER. Lipoma. Trasbot describes two fatty tumors in the liver of a bitch, one of them as large as an infant’s head. It had a yellowish white color, and had taken the place of the proper hepatic tissue.

Malignant Tumors. These are rather common. Sarcomatous masses with round and fusiform cells in a fibrous stroma; encephaloid with a delicate stroma and large alveoli filled with cells, and having a soft brainlike consistency; carcinoma with dense and thick fibrous stroma and nests of cells in comparatively small numbers; and epithelioma with flattened, cylindroid or other epithelial cells in masses often affecting a tubular aggregation, are seen in different cases. Sometimes apparently primary, they can more commonly be traced to pre-existing centres of the same formation on the course of the portal vein or elsewhere.

Symptoms. A gradual wasting and emaciation with a yellowish pallor of the mucous membranes are characteristic. Trasbot gives the excessive atrophy of the temporal and masseter muscles as pathognomonic. Ascites is a usual complication. Enlargement of the liver, as shown by percussion of the right hypochondrium, and, in case of flaccid abdomen, by manipulation, and attendant signs of tenderness are corroborative. Variability or loss of appetite, and vomiting is not uncommon, and in case of primary or secondary deposits in other organs in the abdomen, thorax or elsewhere, the symptoms resulting from functional derangement of such organ may be found. Treatment is hopeless.

CALCAREOUS NODULES AND DEGENERATIONS OF THE LIVER. Calcified roundish nodules, in groups, under capsule. Mostly in solipeds.

Theories of origin: parasites, microbes, emboli, omphalitis, intestinal disease, biliary obstructions. Calcification of liver with large abdominal aneurisms.

Cszoker’s case, Diagnosis and specific treatment impossible.

In the domestic animals in general the liver may become the seat of imperfectly spherical nodules of a white, yellow or brownish white color, varying in size from a millet seed to a pea or hazel nut, and of a gritty consistency and feeling, from the deposition of earthy salts.

These may be seen in groups under the proper capsule, the adjacent hepatic tissue being healthy, or atrophied, sclerosed or pigmented.

These lesions have been found most abundantly in solipeds.

Pathogenesis. The most varied doctrines have been advanced as to the origin of these lesions. They have been attributed to the previous presence in the liver of linguatula, echinococcus, cœnurus, oxyurus, distoma, and other parasites (Cadeac, Mazanti, Olt, Ostertag, Gripp, Leuckart, Ratz), to glanders, to microbian attacks (Dieckerhoff), to minute embolic infarcts in omphalitis in the foal, or intestinal disease in the adult (Kitt), and to obstructions by the eggs of distomata in the biliary ducts (Galli-Vallerio). It is not improbable that the lesion may be due to any one of these in a specific case, and this may be ascertained by the existence of certain definite features and conditions. Linguatula, echinococcus and cœnurus can only be suspected in districts where these prevail, and a careful examination of the central mass of the nodule should reveal the presence of the indestructible hooklets, as certified for given cases by Olt, Ostertag and Gripp. In case of nematoid worms or distomata, the eggs may possibly be found as in the cases of Villach and Ratz, or the embryos

(Mazanti). Or there may be traces of channels formerly hollowed out by the worms in the vicinity of the nodules, as seen by Leuckart.

Coincident tumors of the intestinal mucosa from larval nematodes, or aneurism or emboli in the anterior mesenteric artery would corroborate this conclusion. If distomata had started the lesions, the distension of the gall ducts and the thickening of their walls would be likely to indicate their former presence. Glander nodules might be suspected from the absence of a distinct rounded or oval outline, from the lack of a distinct, clear line of demarcation between the nodule and the adjacent liver tissue, and by the manifestation in the periphery of the nodule and around it of free cell proliferation, showing the mode of progression by the invasion of new tissue. If still active, the bacilli should be discoverable in stained scrapings or sections. There should also be distinct indications of the lesions of glanders in the lymph glands of the portal fissure, of the mediastinum, of the submaxillary region and of other parts.

Heiss records an interesting case of general calcification of the horse’s liver, with large aneurism of the abdominal aorta, mesenteric and renal arteries. The liver was thirty-two pounds, puckered on the surface and showed calcic degeneration of the walls of the vessels and hepatic tissue, to such an extent that when the organ was dried it did not add materially to its hardness. Microscopically the diseased centres indicated minute blood clots (thrombi), with fibrinous development and cretifaction. The lesions in this case were attributed to multiple emboli in connection with the aneurism. It might suggest further, microbian infection of both the aneurismal and hepatic vessels. In another case of extensive cretifaction of the horse’s liver reported by Cszoker, the calcified masses tended to assume rounded forms like tubercle, and had a clear glistening surface.

These lesions are mainly interesting in a pathological sense, and unless they are very extensive do not give rise to appreciable symptoms.

Treatment could only be prophylactic and directed to the removal of the special conditions, in which the calcification originated in a given locality.

ACTINOMYCOSIS OF THE LIVER. On damp infested soil, in cattle and swine. Round tumors, hard surface, soft centre, fibrous sac, club-shaped cells in tufts. Symptoms of liver disorder. Coincident external actinomycosis. Treatment: potassium iodide.

In damp soils where actinomyces are present in the soil and vegetation, it is not uncommon to find the characteristic growths in the liver of cattle and swine. Rasmussen saw twenty-two cases of hepatic actinomycosis in one year (1890) and in a number of cases he has found the liver, spleen, peritoneum and intestine simultaneously affected. Jensen who has also recorded hepatic cases, found tumors extending from the liver to the diaphragm. He describes them as rounded masses, of different sizes, enclosed in a fibrous envelope of variable thickness, hard and resistant at the surface and somewhat softened toward the centre. Microscopic examination detects the club-shaped cells arranged in tufts and radiating from a common centre.

Symptoms are only the general indications of hepatic disease differing according to the size, and position of the morbid product and its interference with normal functions. When, however, superficial actinomycosis is found these symptoms may be fairly attributed to the existence of similar products in the liver.

Treatment consists in the administration of potassium iodide in full doses, daily for a week, followed by a laxative, and then, after an interval of two days, repeat the treatment for a second week, and so for a third, fourth and fifth until the microbe has been destroyed.

PARASITES OF THE LIVER. Lying as it does in the channel of the blood charged with the products of absorption from the intestine, the liver is especially liable to parasites. Among protozoa are: Monocercomonas hepatica (pigeon), saccharomyces guttulatus (rabbit), eimeria falciformis (rabbit), coccidium oviforme (rabbit, pig, dog). Among the lower cryptogams are actinomyces (ox, pig). Of the tapeworm family are: Cysticercus tenuicollis (ruminants, pig), c. pisiformis (rabbit), c. cellulosa (dog, pig), echinococcus veterinorum (animals, man), tænia fimbriata (sheep, deer), and an undetermined cœnurus (cat). Of trematodes are: Distoma hepatica (herbivora, man), distoma lanceolatum (herbivora, man), distoma giganteum, or Americanum (cattle), d. truncatum, d. conjunctum, d. campanulatum (dog), amphistoma explanatum (ox). Of nematodes are: Stephanurus dentatus, ascaris suis, oesophagostoma dentatum (pig), sclerostoma equinum, ascaris megalocephala (horse), ascaris bovis (ox), oesophagostoma columbiana (in ruminants), filaria hepatica, enstrongylus gigas, ascaris marginata (dog), ollulanus tricuspis, ascaris mystax (cat). (See Parasites).

DISEASES OF THE PANCREAS. Obscure. Shown only by digestion or hepatic disorder. Excess of fat in stools suggests suppression of secretion. Intestinal fermentations. Suspension of glycogenesis and consequent emaciation, stunting or poisoning. Pancreatic calculus and icterus.

Diseases of the pancreas are even more obscure than those of the liver. Situated on the course of the duodenum, beneath the lumbar vertebræ and their right transverse processes, and separated from the lateral walls and floor of the abdomen by the great mass of the intestines, it is not open to manipulation or satisfactory percussion, and its secretions being used up in the function of digestion, so that they cannot be perceived and tested externally like the secretions of the kidneys. Beside the general constitutional disorder therefore, we must look rather to the derangements of the digestive functions, to the abnormal condition of the fæces, and to the alterations in subordinate functions like the glycogenic action of the liver, for indications of an unhealthy state of the pancreas. The suppression of the pancreatic secretion has long been associated with the occurrence of fat in the stools, yet this may result from the lack of bile which has important functions to fulfill in emulsionizing fat, and in securing its endosmosis. On the other hand the lack of pancreatic juice may hinder the complete digestion of the albuminoids, and favor their fermentation and the occurrence of tympanies, congestions, abnormal secretions, etc., which may be easily attributed to another origin. Then again the dependence of the liver on the pancreas for its stimulus to glycogenesis, would suggest a series of disturbances from the abundance of the unused food principles, from the hindrance to nutrition and growth, and perhaps from the toxic action of the hepatic products. Once more, through the common excretory duct, infection of the pancreas may extend to and involve the liver, and blocking of the common duct by pancreatic parasites, or calculi, may stop the flow of bile and cause jaundice or other icteric disorder. And yet, it is rarely the case that pancreatic disorder is successfully diagnosed, and it is too often only at the post mortem examination that the actual lesions are revealed.

CATARRHAL PANCREATITIS. Probable causation by parasites, calculi, irritants, microbes. Lesions: mucosa reddened, thickened, ducts dilated, epithelium fatty, granular, desquamating, pus, connective tissue indurated. Interdependence of pancreatitis and hepatitis in horse, sheep and goat. Liver lesions. Symptoms: loss of vigor, endurance, appetite, and condition. Icterus, costiveness, fœtid, fatty stools, percussion tenderness— right side. Treatment: antithermics, eliminants, antiseptics, derivatives, alkalies, salicylates, ether.

Causes. We know little of the causes of this affection, but it may be inferred that parasites, calculi and other irritants, will produce in this as in other mucosæ a mucopurulent inflammation. Then again the presence of pus suggests the coöperation of pus microbes as in the infective catarrhal icterus. The blocking of the common gall and pancreatic duct, by gall stones or biliary products, will entail arrest of the discharge of pancreatic juice, and a consequent pancreatitis, just as blocking with pancreatic products will cause hepatitis and icterus.

Lesions. The mucosa of the pancreatic ducts is reddened, congested and thickened and their lumen blocked by a white, granular matter, containing pus globules, fibrine filaments, and granular, ciliated epithelium. The blocked ducts become dilated, and their walls thickened, the epithelium is desquamated to a greater or less extent, and the raw exposed surface may present ulcers or granulations. The pancreatic cells undergo fatty degeneration and the connective tissue becomes steadily indurated (sclerosis). These lesions were especially noted by Megnin and Nocard in a case of pancreatitis in the horse.

In the horse, sheep and goat, which have a common outlet for the bile and pancreatic juice, the blocking of the latter and the arrest of the bile almost of necessity causes hepatitis, and infection in the one gland is directly transferred to the other so that pancreatitis and hepatitis are mutually causative of each other. In the ox, pig, dog and cat, in which the bile and pancreatic juice are poured into the duodenum through separate ducts and orifices, this mutual pathogenic action is not so certain.

When the liver is implicated, there is catarrh and dilatation of the bile ducts, fatty degeneration commencing in the centre of the acini, pigmentation appearing at their periphery, and sclerosis of the organ follows.

Symptoms. In Nocard’s equine case there was progressive loss of spirit, energy, and endurance; appetite was poor and eating listless; after two weeks jaundice set in, the visible mucosæ and skin showing a yellow tinge, and the scanty urine becoming brownish yellow; the bowels became costive the fæces being formed of small hard discolored balls, but no excess of fatty matter is recorded.

Emaciation advanced rapidly, the most marked wasting being in the muscles of the back, loins and croup. Death ensued at the end of two months from the commencement of the illness. In man sudden, violent colic, with nausea, tympany and collapse are prominent symptoms.

Diagnosis is more satisfactory when with digestive disorder, tardily developing icterus, and rapid emaciation, there is an excess of fat in the ill-smelling fæces. Pain on percussion of the right hypochondrium would be an additional feature.

Treatment can rarely be adopted because of the uncertainty of the diagnosis. It would proceed on general principles, antithermics, eliminants, antiseptics, and counter-irritants being resorted to as the conditions seem to demand. Alkaline laxatives and diuretics, salicylates of soda or potash, and guarded doses of sulphuric ether to solicit the action of the pancreas, might be resorted to. The disorder of the liver would require attention along the lines indicated under catarrh of that organ.

INTERSTITIAL PANCREATITIS. Causes: paresis, marasmus, septic infection, blood diseases. Lesions: connective tissue in excess—pancreas and liver; catarrhal complications; calcic points; congestion and petechiæ in septic infection. Areas of fat necrosis in the pancreas and abdominal adipose tissue. Stearates of lime. Calcic foci in animals. Symptoms: obscure. Treatment.

This is especially liable to accompany paretic and wasting diseases, septic infection, and diseases of the blood. Radionow examined the pancreas in animals that had suffered from chronic paralysis, gastrointestinal catarrh, hepatic catarrh, chronic anæmia and marasmus, and found fatty degeneration of the epithelium, with atrophy and pigmentary degeneration of the glandular epithelium. The fibrous tissue of the gland was in excess in the pancreas and in the liver (sclerosis), and mucous cysts were found.

Siedamgrotzky found a chronic interstitial pancreatitis connected with alopecia, œdema and leucocythæmia. The pancreas was indurated, fibrous, resisting the edge of the knife and sprinkled with gritty particles. Much of the glandular tissue had been destroyed, and the ducts were filled with a dense, grayish, grumous mucus.

Kirilow and Stalnikow have found interstitial pancreatitis marked by congestion and ecchymosis, with intervening anæmic areas, in animals injected with septic matter. There was increased secretion in the early stages.

A marked feature of pancreatitis in man is the occurrence in the interlobular tissue of the gland, the omentum, mesentery and abdominal fatty tissue generally, of circumscribed areas of fat necrosis, each varying in size from a pin’s head upward even to a hen’s egg. On section these show a soft tallowy consistency and Langerhans has shown that they are composed of lime and fatty acids in combination. When lime is in excess they become gritty.

According to Osler they may be dependent on some other primary affection (Bright’s disease). The partially calcified concretions found in the pancreatic ducts, and the yellowish white, gritty areas, which represent the degenerate lobules in animals (Seidamgrotzky) are suggestive of a similar morbid condition of the pancreas or it may be

of some distant organ. Of late years a number of cases have been recorded in man and a very high mortality noted.

The symptoms in the lower animals are very obscure, and an accurate diagnosis is looked upon as almost impossible. They are essentially the same as given above under catarrhal pancreatitis.

Treatment too has the same narrow limitations.

PANCREATIC ABSCESS, SUPPURATIVE PANCREATITIS. A complication of strangles or purulent infection. Symptoms: Colics, chill, tender right hypochondrium, emaciation, fatty stools. Treatment: Constitutional.

Reimers has reported several cases of pancreatic abscess, as a phase of irregular strangles (rhinoadenitis). In one case multiple abscesses with an aggregate capacity of 2½ quarts were found, and some of the pus had escaped by rupture into the peritoneum and produced infective inflammation. The abscesses had destroyed the greater portion of the gland, only a few isolated lobules being left.

Galland found an abscess as big as a walnut in the pancreas of a horse which had multiple tumors in the abdomen.

Symptoms. Colics occur from the local phlegmon, and it may be from its pressure on the duodenum so as to obstruct it, and this appearing in the course of strangles would indicate a forming abdominal abscess. Staring coat or shivering may coincide.

Tenderness of the abdominal walls has been noticed by Reimers, together with a partial loss of appetite and a characteristically rapid emaciation. Fatty stools, if present, would be almost the only pathognomonic symptom.

Prognosis is that the abscess will open into the abdomen, and cause fatal infective peritonitis. It is only as an exceptional occurrence that its rupture into the duodenum or colon can be hoped for, yet in such a case recovery is possible.

Treatment. Little can be done. It would be well to treat the constitutional symptoms, and await results.

FOREIGN BODIES IN THE PANCREAS. Brückmüller has noticed needles and other sharp objects in the pancreas of the dog, determining abscess and the formation of a thick, greenish pus in the adjacent glandular follicles. Goubaux once found a fragment of straw in the pancreatic duct of the horse. Such conditions are not likely to be diagnosed, but if this could be done laparotomy might be permissible in the dog for the removal of the foreign body.

PANCREATIC CALCULI. Mostly in cattle from over feeding, dry feeding, inactivity. Small. Multiple.

Round, angular, lobulated. Nucleus. Composition. Dilated ducts. Atrophied or sclerosed glandular tissue. Prevention: succulent food, water at will, open air life, correction of local catarrh.

Pancreatic like biliary calculi have been found especially in cattle.

They appear to be predisposed by their stimulating, forcing feeding, by their quiet life apart from all causes of excitement and especially by the combined effect of dry feeding and prolonged confinement in the stall through the long winter.

The calculi are usually small but numerous, Jungers having found 36 weighing 38 grammes. Bär has found a mass with an aggregate weight of 23 grammes.

The form of the calculus varies; many are angular from mutual attrition in the large ducts; others from the smaller ducts are rounded; those from the glandular follicles may be even lobulated, in keeping with the divisions of the cavity. The color is white and each shows a distinct central nucleus of epithelial, mucus, or other origin.

Their specific gravity is 2.397 (Fürstenberg), and their composition 92 per cent. calcium carbonate, 4 per cent. magnesia, and traces of calcium phosphate (Gurlt).

The pancreatic ducts are as a rule greatly dilated and thickened (in man they form enormous cysts, Senn, Osler), and the glandular tissue is atrophied, indurated (sclerosed), and of a brownish yellow color.

Treatment of such cases would be unsatisfactory. By way of prevention succulent food, abundance of pure water, and the correction of any infective catarrhal affection of the duodenum, or of

the bile or pancreatic ducts would be specially indicated. Free exercise in the open air would be desirable.

PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS. TUMORS. Often malignant, and secondary. Melanoma in white horse. Carcinoma in mare and dog. Epithelioma. Debility, icterus, abdominal swelling, emaciation.

Treatment: laparotomy, or potassium iodide.

Tumors of the pancreas are quite frequently malignant, and show a preference for the head of the organ. They may be primary but are more frequently secondary.

In gray horses melanotic tumors are found, in connection with similar formations externally, and especially as age advances.

Brückmüller found them of varying size, from a pea to a hazel nut, scattered through the pancreas and adjacent tissues.

Gamgee records a carcinoma of the pancreas of a mare.

Carcinoma is more frequent in this organ in dogs, the neoplasm having an irregular form, an imperfect line of delimitation from surrounding parts and a hard, fibrous stroma enclosing caseous centers, undergoing fatty degeneration.

Nocard reports an epithelial tumor of the head of the pancreas in a bitch. The animal which had been ill for six weeks was debilitated, emaciated, and icteric with a marked abdominal swelling. It died two weeks later, and necropsy revealed a whitish sublumbar tumor, the size of a large apple, with irregular rounded projections. This pressed on the posterior vena cava, surrounded the vena portæ and gall duct and completely closed the latter. Microscopic examination showed it to be an epithelioma. The liver was undergoing cirrhosis.

Treatment, usually hopeless, would be by laparotomy. If actinomycosis were present give potassium iodide.

DISEASES OF THE SPLEEN. No guidance through palpation or secretion. Leukæmia. Lymphadenoma. Spleen a favorite culture ground for microbes. Congestions, engorgements, ruptures.

Safety valve to portal system and liver. Rhythmic splenic contractions under reflex action.

The spleen even more than the pancreas is so deeply seated and so surrounded by other organs, that its diseases are not readily appreciable by physical examination, while the absence of any special secretion excludes the possibility of diagnostic deductions through this channel. Even the relation of the condition of the organ to the number of the leucocytes and red globules fails to afford trustworthy indications of disease, since leucocytes originate in other tissues as well as the spleen, and the destruction of red globules may take place elsewhere. Yet an excess of eosinophile leucocytes in the blood suggests hypertrophy or disease of the spleen, and an excess of leucocytes in general is somewhat less suggestive of disease of this organ (see Leucocythemia). If adenoma is further shown, in enlargement of lymphatic glands elsewhere there is the stronger reason to infer disease of the spleen.

The physiological relation of the spleen to the blood especially predisposes it to diseases in which the blood is involved. The termination of splenic capillaries, in the pulp cavities, so that the blood is poured into these spaces and delayed there, opens the way, not only for the increase of the leucocytes, and the disintegration of red globules, but for the multiplication of microörganisms which may be present in the blood, and for a poisoning (local and general) with their toxins. Hence we explain the congestions, sanguineous engorgements and ruptures of the spleen in certain microbian diseases (anthrax, Southern cattle fever, septicæmia, etc.)

We should further bear in mind that the spleen is in a sense a safety valve for the blood of the portal vein, when supplied in excess during digestion. In this way it protects the liver against sudden and dangerous engorgements, but it is itself subjected to extreme alternations of vascular plenitude and relative deficiency. This may be held to take place largely under the influence of the varying force of the blood pressure in the portal vein, but according to the observations of Roy on dogs and cats, it is also powerfully influenced by muscular and nervous action. He found rhythmic contractions of the organ due to the muscles contained in the capsule and trabeculæ, repeating themselves sixty times per hour, and which might be compared to tardy pulsations. He further found that electric stimulation of the central end of a cut sensory nerve, of the medulla oblongata, or of the peripheral ends of both splanchnics and both vagi caused a rapid contraction of the spleen. The spleen may thus be looked on not only as a temporary store-house for the rich and abundant blood of the portal system of veins during active digestion, but also as a pulsating organ acting under the control of nerve centres in the medulla. That the various ascertained normal functions of this viscus may be vicariously performed by others, as shown in animals from which it has been completely extirpated, does not contradict the occurrence of actual disease in the organ, nor the baleful influence of certain of its diseases on the system at large.

ANÆMIA OF THE SPLEEN. General anæmia, debility, wasting diseases, starvation, hæmorrhage, stimulus to formation of red globules, asphyxia, electricity, cold, quinine, eucalyptus, ergot.

Symptoms: lack of eosinophile leucocytes in the blood of a debilitated subject may lead to suspicion. Treatment: tonic, light, sunshine, pure air, exercise, nutritive food, iron, bitters.

In cases of general anæmia the spleen is liable to be small, shrunken, wrinkled, and when cut the surface is drier and lighter colored than in the normal condition. This condition may be seen after old standing debilitating diseases, but is common in animals that have been reduced by starvation, just as the opposite condition of hyperæmia and enlargement comes of abundance of rich food and an active digestion. It may shrink temporarily as the result of profuse hemorrhage, but Bizzozero and Salvioli found that several days after such loss of blood it became enlarged and its parenchyma contained many red nucleated hæmatoblasts. The result of hemorrhage is therefore to stimulate the organ to enlargement and to the resumption of its embryonic function of producing red blood globules. Contraction of the spleen further occurs under asphyxia, the deoxidized blood being supposed to operate through the medulla oblongata. As already noted the spleen shrinks under stimulation of the central end of a sensory nerve (vagus, sciatic). An induced current of electricity applied to the skin over the spleen causes marked contraction (Botkin). Cold, quinine, eucalyptus, ergot and other agents also induce contraction. In the normal condition there is an inverse ratio between the bulk of the spleen and the liver, the enlargement of the one entailing a diminution of the other, but in certain diseased states, such as anthrax, ague, etc., both are liable to enlargement at the same time.

Symptoms of splenic anæmia are wanting, through a lack of eosinophile leucocytes, in the blood of a starved or otherwise debilitated animal, may lead to suspicion of the condition.

The treatment of such a case would be addressed rather to the general debility which induced the splenic contraction than to the contraction itself. Light, sunshine, pure air, exercise, grooming,