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and discharges a gelatinous yellowish white matter, containing little yellow 

 masses or clusters of the fungus about the size of grains of sand, which are 

 cheesy in consistency. When the swollen bone is cut across, it is found to 

 be softened in spots with hard bony matter surrounding them like a honey- 

 comb. The tongue usually swells and becomes very hard, hence the name 

 woody tongue, w^hich is often applied to this condition. This makes it very 

 difficult for the animal to eat or drink. The glands around the throat, 

 when affected, swell, burst and discharge, the same as the jaw bones, and 

 present somewhat the same honey -comb condition when cut into, but are 

 often seen to contain one or more large abscesses instead of many small 

 ones. 



What to do. — The treatment is of three kinds, viz. : preventive, surgi- 

 cal and medicinal. Prevention is effected by keeping affected animals away 

 from the healthy ones, not allowing them to go into the fields, yards or 

 stables used for other stock for any purpose. Never take an affected 



ACTINOMYCOSIS OF THE 

 UPPER JAW. 



BAD EFFECTS OF EXCESSIVE 

 USE OF CAUSTICS. 

 A large hole through the cheek into the 

 mouth from excessive use of caustics. 



animal into a healthy herd. This has been done in some cases without 

 apparently bad results, but many cases have been seen by the writer and 

 others to have developed and spread extensively from one introduced from 

 a distance with a nonsuppurating tumor under the jaw the size a hen's %^'g 

 at the time of purchase, which grew, burst and discharged a little later, 

 and which was followed in four to six weeks by the disease in many others 

 of the herd. 



Surgical treatment consists in opening the tumors freely with a knife, 

 emptying the sacks, and packing them thoroughly with cotton di})ped in 

 tincture of iodine. The packing needs to be removed once every two 

 days, till the tumor begins to shrivel; or the tumor may be dissected 

 completely out, but this is often a dangerous operation, owing to the size 

 or location of it. If the jaw bone is involved it is more serious and the 

 treatment is often a failure, but many successes will follow heroic surgery. 

 Gouge and chisel out the diseased bone as completely as possible and pack 



