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WARTS AND OTHER TUMORS OF THE EYELIDS. 



The eyelids form a favoi'ite site for tumors, and above all, warts, 

 which consist in a simple diseased overgrowth (hypertrophy) of the 

 surface layers of the skin. If small, these may be snipped off with 

 scissors, or tied around the neck with a stout waxed thread and left 

 to drop off, the destruction being completed, if necessary, by the 

 daily application of a piece of sul^ihate of copper (blue vitriol), until 

 any unhealthy material has been removed. If more widely spread 

 the wart may still be clipped off with curved scissors or knife, and the 

 caustic thoroughly applied day by day. 



A bleediilg wart or erectile tumor is more liable to bleed, and is 

 best removed by constricting its neck with the waxed cord or rubber 

 band, or if too broad for this it may be transfixed through its base by 

 a needle armed with a double thread, which is then to be cut in two 

 and tied around the two portions of the neck of the tumor. If still 

 broader the armed needle may be carried through the base of the 

 tumor at regular intervals, so that the whole may be tied in moder- 

 ately sized sections. 



In gray and white horses black pigmentary tumors (melanotic) are 

 common on the black portions of skin, such as the eyelids, and are to 

 be removed by scissors or knife, according to their size. In the horse 

 these do not usually tend to recur when thoroughly removed, but at 

 times they prove cancerous (as is the rule in man), and then they tend 

 to reappear in the same site or in internal organs with, it may be, 

 fatal effect. 



Encysted, honey-like (melicerous), sebaceous, and fibrous tumors of 

 the lids all require removal with the knife. 



TORN EYELIDS — WOUNDS OF EYELIDS. 



The eyelids are torn by attacks with horns of cattle, or with the teeth, 

 or by getting caught on nails in stall rack or manger, on the point of 

 stump fences or fence rails, on the barbs of wire-fences and on other 

 pointed bodies. The edges should be brought together as promptly 

 as possible, so as to secure union without the formation of matter, 

 puckering of the skin, and unsightly distortions. Great care is nec- 

 essary to bring the two edges together evenly without twisting or 

 puckering. The simplest mode of holding them together is by a 

 series of sharp j)ins passed through the lips of the wound at intervals 

 of not over a third of an inch, and held together by a thread twisted 

 around each pin in the form of the figure 8, and carried obliquely 

 from pin to pin in two directions, so as to prevent gaping of the wound 

 in the intervals. The points of the pins may then be cut off with 

 scissors, and the wound may be wet twice a day with a weak solution 

 of carbolic acid. 



