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SCIRRHUS. 



produce a healthy matter. The first opening often heals up, 

 but others follow; and, in the end, two or three, or more, 

 appear at the same time, v/hich, breaking- in different parts, 

 ane soon licked into one sore by the animal; and althoug-h 

 the ulceration does not spread rapidly, or put on the virulence 

 of human carcinomatous ulcerations, it seldom heals after- 

 wards, but, at length, wears down the animal by the con-' 

 tinued discharge. 



While the tumour is externally whole, and is throughout 

 indurated, without hydatid-like vesicles, it may be, now and 

 then, dispersed by the frequent application of active discu- 

 tients, as 



Muriate of ammonia {crude sal ammoniac) one ounce 

 Acetic acid (vinegar) four ounces. 



Bathe with this three or four times a-day. Brandy and wa- 

 ter, or vinegar, or common salt and water, are also good dis- 

 cutients. 



In some cases, the repeated application of leeches forms, 

 of all others, tbe best mode of treatment. In others, the 

 means recommended for the cure of bronchocele prove use- 

 ful, with the addition of sarsaparilla. During the attempts 

 at discussing these tumours, a repetition of the causes pro- 

 ducing them should be carefully avoided, such as a sympa- 

 thetic repletion of the teats from coagulated milk, and the 

 obstruction to its passing off, by depriving them too early of 

 their young; but particularly by avoiding whatever tends to 

 produce repletion, as confinement, over-feeding, &c. &c. 



As, however, all means at dispersing these tumours are 

 very apt to fail, and ulceration almost invariably occurs, it 

 follows that extirpation, or the cutting of them out, is the 

 remedy usually necessary to be resorted to for their complete 

 removal. This operation may be safely performed, in every 

 instance, with only common precautions : out of innumerable 

 cases, on which I have operated, I never lost one. it is, 

 however, in general, prudent to let the tumour increase, till, 

 by its weight, it becomes {)endulous, and detached from the 



