122 ANGLE BERRIES. 



It will in the majority of cases be useless to attempt to heal these 

 tumours when they have once broken. Strong ointments, and caustics 

 of all kinds, have been tried, but the ulcer has daily spread and gone 

 deeper and deeper, until it became necessary to destroy the animal. 

 If anything is attempted in the way of healing the ulcers, the wound 

 should be washed before every dressing with the tincture of iodine, 

 lowered with four times its weight of water, and the Healingr Clean- 

 sing Ointment (Recipe 10, p. 53) be daily applied. 



These tumours are often very troublesome to treat, and the prefer- 

 able way will generally be to remove them as soon as possible with 

 the knife, except more should be found on any other part of the beast, 

 in which case the removal of the principal tumour would only hasten 

 the growth of the rest. Mercurial ointment will have no etfect on 

 these tumours, except to irritate them, and cause them to grow faster, 

 and sometimes it wuil salivate and seriously injure the beast. 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



ANGLE BERRIES. 



These are little warty tumours growing on various parts of the 

 skin. They are unpleasant to the eye, and they sometimes become 

 very sore. 



They are a sad nuisance about the teats, and often render the cow 

 very difficult to milk; and, on the eyelids, they are a source of per- 

 petual torment to the animal. The easiest and surest way to remove 

 them is to tie a piece of waxed silk finnly round the base of each, 

 and to tighten it every day : by means of this the tumour will drop 

 off, and rarely grow again ; there will be no bleeding, and the neigh- 

 bouring parts will not be inoculated. 



If they are so numerous and large that it is necessary to have re- 

 course to the cautery, the heated iron should be immediately applied 

 to the angle berry. The bleeding will thus be readily stopped, and 

 the tumour will not sprout anew. 



If they are early attended to, and before they have reached any 

 considerable size, they will gradually disappear when they are daily 

 touched with the nitrate of silver, either in substance, or in the form 

 of a strong solution. The strong nitrous acid will answer the same 

 purpose. When there is an inveterate disposition to the growth of 

 these berries, the iodine may be given, as already directed, with every 

 prospect of success. 



