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inga that partake some of the nature of swelled limbs 

 in grease, and yet lerminnte in abscess when the case 

 is a bad one. 



Symptoms. — An enlargement of the breast, which 

 sometimes extends upwards to the throat, and threat- 

 ens suffocation. The animal appears stiff about the 

 neck, looks dull and drooping, refuses his food, and 

 trembles or shivers with the inflammation, which may 

 be felt. Pulse dull and uneven. By pressing two or 

 more fingers alternately, the existence of matter, or 

 a disposition to suppurate, may be ascertained, [as in 

 poll-evil, J by its receding from side to side as the 

 pressure is withdrawn. On the other hand, if the 

 disease owes its origin to dropsy, each pressure of the 

 finger will remain pitted a few seconds after tlie 

 finger is withdrawn. Consult " Poll-evil," in its two 

 stages. 



Cure. — As in other cases of tumor, that do not 

 partake of critical abscess after fever, &c. this disor- 

 der admits of being repressed, readily by the means 

 before prescribed, or of being otherwise cured, as it 

 may be allied to somo disorder of the constitution. — 

 To repress the swelling, bleed the patient copiously ; 

 give purgatives, and clyster him ; give bran mashes, 

 and Jet the chill be taken off his water. Foment the 

 throat and breast with bran mash or marsh mallows 

 every 4 or 6 hours ; and when these have reduced 

 the symptoms, give the following 



ALTERATIVE BALL. — Emetic tartar, two drachms ; Venica 

 turpentine, half an ounce. Mix with Liquoi-ice powder to form a 

 ball. 



Give one every forty-eight hours. On the contrary, 

 if the swelling depend upon dropsy, as aforesaid, let 

 a fleam or horse lancet be struck into the skin at four 

 or five places distant from each other, and in the low- 

 est and most depending part of the swelling. From 

 these punctures, a watery discharge will take p'acc, 

 that relieves the patient of his affliction hourly, and 

 the issue of matter is to be promoted by keeping open 

 the sores as directed in case of fistula, in a preceding 

 page; again, when the swelling indicates the collec- 

 tion of morbid matter, let it be fomented, poulticed, 

 and opened, ai directed for critical abscegs, in polU 

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