156 CATTLE. 



a liquid and fetid pus ; arsenicum, in such as have liard and everted 

 edges, with pain, inflammation, and pus of bad odor; chamomilla, 

 sepia, and arsenicum, when granuhitions grow up too luxuriant; 

 silicea, when the pus is tliick and of bad color ; acidiun phosphoricu77i, 

 when, after a wound, the skin contracts adhesion to the bone. 



When a real abscess is formed, arsenicum is the remedy to be 

 employed. However, pulsatilla is very useful in deep-seated ab- 

 scesses. When the swelling has been caused by insects, the ear 

 should be well washed, and arnica water injected into it. Petroleum 

 is by some considered the best remedy in such cases. Some doses 

 of sulphur must be taken internally. 



THE EYE. 



The orbit of the eye is of a quadrilateral shape in the ox, (^, p. 143,) 

 and very strongly formed above, to defend it from the violence to 

 which, from its situation, it is too much exposed, and below, in order 

 to protect the lachrymal sac, and the commencement of the canal 

 through which the superfluous moisture flows from the eye to the 

 nose. The orbit, and particularly the upper part, the superciliary 

 ridge, is very subject to fracture. The parts must be placed in their 

 natural situation ; must be confined there ; and inflammation prevent- 

 ed by bleeding, physicking, &c. 



The ox is often Avounded in the eye, either by the horn of one of 

 his fellows or the prong of the brutal attendant. Here must be no 

 probing, but fomentations, bleeding, and physic. 



It is too much owingr to the thous^htless or brutal conduct of 

 those who have the management of cattle, that the ox, oftener than 

 any other domestic animal, is subject to bony tumors about the 

 eyes, or on the edge of the orbit. 



These tumors appear generally on the external part of the orbit ; 

 they increase with greater or less rapidity ; they take a direction 

 which may or may not interfere with vision ; occasionally they bend 

 towards the eye, and press upon it, and are sources of torture and 

 blindness. If the tumor is on the upper part of the orbit, and is 

 attached by a kind of pedicle, it may be sawed off", and the root 

 touched with the cautery ; in other situations we shall generally 

 be confined to the use of external stimulants. The best is the 

 cautery. We shall not, perhaps, dare to apply it directly to 

 tlie part, but there is a method by which we may obtain the 

 advantage of a very high degree of temperature without destioy- 

 ing the skin. An iron is to be prepared, somewhat hollovre'd, 

 and rather larger than accurately to contain the tumor in its hollow. 

 A piece of bacon-rind, with a little of the fat attached to it, is then 

 to be cut to the shape of the tumor, and so as to cover it ; and be- 

 ing placed over it, the iron, heated nearly red hot, is to be applied 

 upon it, and firmly held there for the space of two or three minutes, 



