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a pair of curved scissors; then to the excised portion of tissue apply the 

 thermo-cautery, or with a camel's hair brush apply pure carbolic acid 

 which should be neutralized immediately with an alkaline solution. 

 There is always considerable hemorrhage, but this is easily controlled. 

 French advises, if there should be great hemorrhage, to take one or two 

 stitches in the mucosa. This is to be done only where the hemorrhage 

 is extreme and the stitches to be removed not later than twenty-four 

 hours afterwards as the sutures cause great irritation. The non-irritating 

 substitutes for nitrate of silver such as the silver proteids and albuminates 

 are particularly useful in this condition and should be applied locally in 

 the male and injected freely in solution in the bitch. 



Fig. 176. Chronic ulcer. 



The male, if treated early, generally recovers in three or four months, 

 in the bitch if the vagina is involved to any great extent it is not wise to 

 breed her. If asked to give an opinion as to her i3urchase as a brood 

 bitch it would he well to advise against it. 



General Therapeutics of Tumors. — The treatment of tumors of the 

 mouth, anus and mammar}' glands has already been taken up and 

 the reader is referred to those conditions under their respective titles. 

 The internal medicinal treatment of tumors by preparations of iodine 

 may be used in cases of goitre. In carcinoma and sarcoma we may give 

 arsenic in the form of a solution of mercury, iodine, and arsenic (Fowler's 

 or Donovan's solution). 



Surgical Treatment. — This is generally palliative in cases where the 

 tumor is difficult to reach, being restricted to the prevention of hemor- 

 rhage, suppuration, and a fetid odor. 



