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of the abuse of mercurials, but are now fortunately rare. 'Jlier= 

 is likely to be disorder of stomach and bowels, loss of appetite, 

 bloating, rumbling in the belly, badly digested, foetid stools, and 

 great languor and depression. Use washes containing tincture of 

 iodine or chlorate of potassa, and iodide of potassium internally. 



WARTS ON THE LIPS 



Are very common in dogs. Remove with scissors and cauterize 

 the roots thoroughly with a pointed stick of lunar caustic. 



LACERATION OF THE TONGUE. 



Causes — Especially common in horses from hard bits, nooses 

 of ropes, or rough dragging with the hand. The lacerated 

 tongue may hang from the mouth. Sew up the wound with 

 catgut previously softened in water ; feed thick gruels only, and 

 wash out the mouth frequently with a lotion of permanganate 

 of potassa. Any dead portion nuist be removed with the knife, 

 but it must not encroach on the livmg. The whole organ may 

 often be saved when almost entirely torn off. 



CYSTS UNDER THE TONGUE. 



These are tense elastic rounded swellings, and are easily 

 remedied by a free incision with the knife. 



TUMOURS IN THE MOUTH. 



These mostly grow from the gums and tongue, and may 

 attain the size of the closed fist in the horse. Small ones may 

 be removed with scissors, the larger with the ecraseur. 



CANCROID OF THE LIPS. CANCER OF THE TONGUE. 



The former of these attacks the angle of the mouth in horses 

 and cats as an eroded unhealthy sore with hard thickened 

 margins ; the latter appears in horses and cattle as an increasing 

 ^A.ird swelling with unhealthy open sore an.i giant cells. It 

 sliould be excised when very limited. Later 't is incurable. 



