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colored fluid, very like the serum (water or whey) of the 

 blood. They are caused by blows or other contusions. 

 Percivall suggests that there may be another kind of serous 

 abscess — one that arises spontaneously. 



Remedy. — Do not attempt to disperse these tumors. 

 Lance them. Inject with one of the following mixtures : 

 1. White vitriol, 1 scruple; distilled water, 1 ounce. 2. 

 Lunar caustic, 1 scruple ; distilled water, 1 ounce. Or 

 pass a seton through the enlargement. After the injec- 

 tion, or after the withdrawal of the seton, a compress and 

 roller will agglutinate the sides of the cavity. The seton 

 should be retained only till healthy pus is produced. In 

 some cases, especially where a bandage cannot be kept on 

 nor a seton be inserted, sloughing the sac with a sharp 

 escharotic (caustic), such as powdered blue vitriol, is the 

 best means of cure. (Percivall.) 



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Is a malignant, contagious, and fatal disease, due to 

 the introduction into the animal economy, or of genera- 

 tion within it, of a virus (said by Dr. Struck of Berlin 

 to consist of an organism, the ' Bacillus mallei/ about the 

 same size as those of tuberculosis), which, infecting the 

 whole system, shows specific effects on the nasal mem- 

 brane, the lungs, and the lymphatic glands and ducts. 

 It originates spontaneously in the horse, ass, and mule, 

 and is transmissible to sheep, goats, dogs, cats, mice, and 

 rabbits ; also to man, in whom the virus seems to increase 

 in malignancy. Cattle, swine, and fowl resist it, even 

 when inoculated. It may occur under at least four forms- 

 acute and chronic glanders; acute (bud) and chronic 

 (button) farcy. (Williams.) 



Old age, bad food and management, overwork, exhaust- 

 ing diseases, such as diabetes insipidus ; specific miasmatic 



