DISEASES AND TREATMENT OF CATTLE 439 



Mix and apply according to directions as given for the 

 blister on cattle. If this does not fix it try; the iodine the 

 same as for cattle. Should an operation be necessary dissolve 

 six grains of cocaine in a half ounce of pure water. Inject 

 this with a hypodermic syringe well down into the tumor 

 iifteen minutes before commencing. This deadens the pain 

 and facilitates matters during the operation. 



Throw the animal and secure him. Make a long cut in 

 the skin over the tumor and cut around it until you have it 

 cut out. After the tumor is out and the wound is bleeding, 

 take a large piece of dry cotton batting about the size of the 

 tumor and shove it into the opening, then sew up the skin 

 similar to sewing a wound. Leave it sewed up for twenty- 

 four hours; then take a couple of stitches out of the lower 

 part of the wound, take the batting out and dress it by 

 bathing with lukewarm water and soap twice a day. After 

 each bathing dress the wound by inserting melted green salve 

 with a feather up into it and applying white lotion around 

 the outside and inside of the cut. Continue this treatment 

 until healed. If the tumor lies near a large vein such as the 

 jugular vein, and you cannot cut it out, continue 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 may be followed for tumors either in the horse or 

 in cattle. 



2. Cancer. 



Cancers are angry looking growths generally, affecting 

 cattle, sheep and dogs, and sometimes horses, around the 

 head and neck. They may affect 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 injure the health, 

 but after the cancer once is settled in the blood the animal 

 falls off in condition. The growth develops very rapidly, and 

 the least irritation causes it to bleed. In some cases it grad- 

 ually eats the surrounding tissue until it causes death. If 

 near a bone it gradually works into it, and when the bone 

 becomes affected there is 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 

 clear and clean. This sometimes prevents its spreading. It 



