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A fluid collects in the tissue immediately beneath the skin, and which 

 yields to the pressure of the finger. The pressure causes no pain, 

 nor is there any inflammation of the skin, but there is some degree* 

 of lameness. The tumors insensibly increase ; they still contain a 

 fluid. Inflammation is now sufiiciently evident : the lameness is very 

 great ; and the motion of the joint is almost destroyed. 



Frictions with turpentine and hartshorn are often employed : some- 

 times one composed of tincture of cantharides is used. These occa- 

 sionally disj)erse the tumors for a while, but ihey speedily reappear. 

 The hot iron is a more eff'ectual remedy. If the tumor be pierced 

 with it, a glairy fluid escapes, and the swelling subsides. A blister 

 should then be applied, and the animal kept in the cow-house. The 

 tumor does not often return, but it is a considerable time before the 

 lameness quite disappears. 



A more frequent species of tumor is of a hard character. It does 

 not yield at ail to pressure ; it evidently causes considerable pain, 

 and the animal is very lame. These tumors are almost invariably 

 confined to one knee. Here, neither frictions nor perforation with 

 the hot iron will be of material benefit, although deep firing has 

 sometimes succeeded. 



Other tumors, sometimes immediately on the joints, and at other 

 times at a greater or less distance from them, and of variable degrees 

 of hardness ; sometimes adhering to and identified w^ith the substance 

 beneath, and at other times more or less pendulous, do not appear 

 to- give much pain to the animal, nor do they often interfere with the 

 motion of the joints, but they are a great eyesore, and, in a few in- 

 stances, they suddenly take on a disposition to increase with great 

 rapidity. These have been blistered without effect — setons Irave 

 been passed through them with variable result, and occasionally re- 

 course has been had to excision. 



The ointment of the hydriodate of potash should be ^vell rubbed 

 into the tumors and the neighboring parts ; and the hydriodate at 

 the same time be administered internally. 'J'he success of this treat- 

 ment with the two last species of tumors has been almost as great 

 as the practitioner could desire. They have uniformly very much di- 

 minished in size, and in the great majority of cases they have dis- 

 appeared. The ointment should be composed as already recom- 

 mended, and six grains of the hydriodate given morning and night in 

 a mash. On the first species of tumor unconnected with rheumatism, 

 the iodine has seldom had decided effect. 



Ho'iTioeopathic treatment. — Tumors vary much with respect to their 

 constitution and the region of the body where they make their ap- 

 pearance. Those arising from an external cause, are, for the most 

 part, hot, at least at the commencement ; these are to be treated 

 with arnica (internally and externally), which is to be followed by 

 arsenicum, or, when there is pain, by conium. Those which depend 



