OILS. 



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pair of flat-bladed forceps. If the divergent lashes are more numei 

 the treatment ma}' be as for entropion, bj excising an elliptical portion 

 of skin opposite the offending lashes and stitching the edges together, 

 so as to draw outward the margin of the lid at that point. 



WARTS AND OTHER TUMORS OF THE EYELIDS. 



The ej'elids form a favorite site for tumors, and above all, warts, 

 which consist in a simple diseased overgrowth (hj-pertrophy) of the 

 surface layers of the skin. If small, these may be snipped off with 

 scissors or tied around the neck with a stout waxed thread and left to 

 drop off, the destruction being completed, if necessary, b}^ the daily 

 application of a piece of sulphate of copper (blue vitriol), until any 

 unhealthy material has been removed. If more widely spread the 

 wart ma}^ still be clipped off with curved scissors or knife, and the 

 caustic thoroughly applied day by day. 



A bleeding wart, or erectile tumor, is more liable to bleed, and is 

 best removed bj^ constricting its neck with the waxed cord or rub))er 

 band, or if too broad for this it may be transfixed through its base 1)}' 

 a needle armed with a double thread, which is then to be cut in two 

 and tied around the two portions of the neck of the tumor. If still 

 broader the armed needle may be carried through the base of the tumor 

 at regular intervals, so that the whole may be tied in moderate!}' sized 

 sections. 



In gray and white horses ])lack pigmentar}- tumors (melanotic) are 

 common on the black portions of skin, such as the eyelids, and are to 

 be removed by scissors or knife, according to their size. In the horse 

 these do not usuall}^ tend to recur when thoroughly removed, but at 

 times they prove cancerous (as is the rule in man), and then they tend 

 to reappear in the same site or in internal organs with, it ma}- be, fatal 

 effect. 



Encj'sted, honey-like (melicerous), sebaceous, and fibrous tumors of 

 the lids all require removal with the knife. 



TORN EYELIDS OR WOUNDS OF EYELIDS. 



The eyelids are torn by attacks with horns of cattle, or with the 

 teeth, or b}' getting caught on nails in stall, rack, or manger, on the 

 point of stumps, fences, or fence rails, on the barbs of wire fences, and 

 on other pointed bodies. The edges should be brought together as 

 promptly as possible, so as to secure union without the formation of 

 matter, puckering of the skin, and unsightly distortions. Great care 

 is necessaiy to bring the two edges together evenl}^ without twisting 

 or puckering. The simplest mode of holding them together is by a 

 series of sharp pins passed through the lips of the wound at intervals 

 of not over a third of an inch, and held together ])y a thread twisted 



