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or tied around tbe neck with a stout waxed thread and left to drop off, 

 the destruction being completed, if necessary, b^^ the daily application 

 of a piece of sulphate of copper (blue vitriol), until any unhealthy ma- 

 terial 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 bleeding 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 nee- 

 dle 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 regu- 

 lar intervals, so that the whole may be tied in moderately sized sec- 

 tions. 



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

 common on the black ijortions of skin, such as tbe 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 

 efi'ect. 



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, puck- 

 ering of the skin, and unsightly distortions. Great care is necessary 

 to bring the two edges together evenly without twisting or puckering. 

 The simplest mode of holding them together is by a series of sharp pins 

 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 direc- 

 tions, 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. 



TUMOR OF THE HAW — CARIES OF THE CARTILAGE. 



Though cruelly excised for alleged "hooks," when itself perfectly 

 healthy in the various diseases which lead to retraction of the eye into 

 its socket, the haw may, like other bodily structures, be itself the seat 

 of actual disease. The pigmentary black tumors of white horses and 



