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its them. This is effected in various ways — a little corrosive li(|uoi 

 is poured into the hole, or a red-hot needle introduced, or the larva 

 is crushed or forced out by pressure with the finger and thumb. 

 Although the existence of the warble is a kind of proof of the 

 health and condition of the animal, yet there is no reason why the 

 best beasts should be tormented by'the gad-fly, or the strongest and 

 best hides be perforated, and, in a manner, spoiled in their best parts. 

 Although when the larva escapes or is expelled, the tumor soon 

 subsides, the holes made are scarcely filled up during that season ; 

 and even a twelvemonth afterwards, a weakness of the hide, and dis- 

 position to crack, will show where the bot has been. If all the 

 farmers could be induced to search for and destroy the insect when 

 a lai va, the cattle of that district might be nearly or quite freed from 

 this pest. 



ANGLE-BERRIES, OR WARTS. 



Cattle are subject to various excrescences, growing from the cuti- 

 cle at first, but afterwards identified with the true skin. They 

 assume many forms, from that of scales of greater or less thickness, 

 and accompanied sometimes by chaps and sores, to fungous growth,, 

 of different size and hardness, and bearing the character of warts. 

 They are occasionally very numerous and exceedingly trouble- 

 some, and especially about the teats. When they grow about 

 the eve-lids, they are a sad nuisance to the beast. 



When they are only exfoliations and scales of the cuticle, friction 

 with camphoretted oil will occasionally remove them. It has been 

 known to disperse the warty excrescences. Mercurial prepai-ations, 

 whether blue ointment or corrosive sublimate and soap, are danger- 

 ous, but they will usually get rid of the angle-berries. When they 

 are numerous, and particularly about the udder, the practitioner will 

 probably try to remove the largest of them by means of a liga- 

 ture passed round their roots. This, however, will often be an 

 almost endless affair, and recourse must be had to the knife and the 

 cautery. The cautery will stop the bleeding, destroy the root of the 

 wart, and thus prevent its springing again. When they are small, 

 they'will be most successfully attacked by means of the nitrate of 

 silver, being touched daily wiih it in a solid form, if they are few 

 and di:^tinc°t; or washed with a strong solution of it, if they are 

 more numerous and scattered over a la; ge sui face. They have been 

 attributed to various causes, as contusions, stings of msects, want <>( 

 condition, inflammation of the skin; but in most cases the actual 

 cause, is unknown. 



Homoeopathic, treatment.— Warts appear on the breast, belly, 

 back, neck, tail ; sometimes smooth, round, soft and broad ; some- 

 times pediculated, chapped, spongy, hard and dry, or moist, paniful 

 or without Reeling. Fo ■ the cure oi warts which are dry, smooth, 



