§10 THE VETERINAEY SCIENCE. 



For Tumors on Horses. — Use the following- blister : 



Powdered Cantharides or Spanish Fly ... 1^ drams. 



Vaseline or Lard. 1 ounce. 



Mix and apply with the same directions as is given for the 

 blister on cattle, if this does not fix it try the iodine the same as 

 for cattle. In case you have to cut the lump out, throw the 

 animal down and secure it, make a good, long- cut in the skin 

 over the tumor and cut around it until you have it cut out, after 

 the tumor is out and it is bleeding-, take a large piece of dry 

 cotton batting- about the size of the tumor and shove it in where 

 you took the tumor out, then sew up the skin the same as sewing- 

 a wound, and leave it sewed up for twenty-four hours, then take 

 a couple of stitches out of the lower part of the wound and take the 

 batting- out and dress it by bathing- it off with luke warm water and 

 soap twice a day, after each bathing- dress the wound by inserting- 

 melted g-reen salve with a feather up in the wound and applying- white- 

 lotion around the outside and inside of the cut. Keep this treatment 

 up until it is healed. If the tumor lies near a larg-e vein such as the 

 jugular vein, and you cannot cut it out, keep blistering it, and if 

 this does not help it, paint the lump over with tincture of iodine 

 every day the same as above mentioned. This treatment will do 

 for tumors either in the horse or in cattle. 



CANCER. 



Cancers are angry looking growths generally, affecting cattle^ 

 sheep and dogs, and is sometimes noticed in horses, around the 

 head and neck, but may affect the other animals in any part of 

 the body. 



Symptoms. — At the first appearance of the cancer — before it 

 gets into the blood — it does not hurt the animal's health, but after 

 the cancer once gets settled in the blood the animal falls off in 

 condition, the growth grows very rapidly, and the least irritation^ 

 causes it to bleed. In some cases the disease gradually eats the 

 surrounding tissue until it kills the animal, and if it is near a bone 

 it gradually works into it, and when the bone becomes affected it 

 has a very bad smell. When the disease has arrived at this stage 

 it is called bone cancer. 



Treatment. — In the first stages of the disease cut it out good 

 and clean, and by doing this you can sometimes prevent its 

 spreading. It is best to throw the animal and secure it before 

 you attempt to cut the cancer out, and as soon as you have taken it 



