184 DISEASES OF HORSES AND CATTLE. 



cal swellings, tumors or buds in connection with 

 t he skin and the surrounding tissue. After a time 

 these soften and ulcerate, leaving an unhealthy, 

 ragged, open sore, which discharges a liquid and 

 has no disposition to heal. These tumors are 

 found in various parts of the body — on the face, 

 under the jaws, sides of neck, anterior parts of 

 chest, inside of the fore legs, along the belly, over 

 the flanks and inside of the hind legs. These tu- 

 mors vary much in size in different parts of the 

 body. The lymphatics in the neighborhood of 

 these tumors are swollen and hard, and inside of 

 the hind leg they will be corded. The appetite of 

 the animal may remaip good and do its work as 

 usual, and may remain in good condition, but 

 usually they become dry-haired and take on an un- 

 healthy appearance. Although some cases of 

 chronic farcy recover, it is not well to undertake 

 treatment, for your own safety as well as for the 

 safety of the other horses which might become af- 

 fected with the disease. The treatment would be 

 to give the animal two drams of sulphate of copper 

 twice a day in mash, and continue it for a month; 

 feed good hay and oats; wash the sores and dress 

 them by dusting iodoform powder on them twice 

 daily, or by washing them with chloride of zinc, 

 one dram ; water, one pint ; or sanitas oil, one part ; 

 sweet oil, two parts, and keep the animal separat- 

 ed from the others while undergoing this treat- 

 ment. Stables and old houses in which a gland- 

 ered or farcied horse has been, as, well as harness, 

 clothing, etc., must be disinfected. Everything in 



