282 ILLUSIllATED STOCK DOCTOR. 



The manner of their formation seems to be this : Knots in the true ski« 

 urc <'-radualiy developed, being surrounded with a covering of the scarf- 

 akin, something thickened and matted together ; and this outer covering 

 generally dries and splits into fibers towards the top, while blood, in 

 greater (juaiitities than usual, is sent to the inner or vascular parts ; and 

 more nutriment is thus diverted to it than to the surrounding flesh, so 

 that an upward or outward growth is promoted. 



Seed warts usually make their appearance on the eyelids, the nose, the 

 Hheath and adjoining jiarts of the belly ; the encysted or sac warts, on 

 the pasterns, hock-joints, and knee-joints, and sometimes upon the sheath 

 and neighboring parts. 



Unless warts appear upon the penis they are not injurious to health, 

 and at first occasion little inconvenience unless upon the shoulder or 

 some part where harness or saddle touches constantly ; but they should 

 be removed, nevertheless — particularly the sac wart and those seed warts 

 which manifest a tendency to enlargement. If the encysted or blood 

 wart is allow^ed to remain it will almost invariably enlarge and spread. 



How to know it. — There are two kinds of these formations, one of 

 which is fibrous, white, and gristly or cartilaginous, but somewhat 

 spongy lump, contained in a sac or cell which has taken its rise from the 

 •outer or scarf-skin ; and the other is a somewhat cartilaginous substance, 

 not inclosed, but adhering firmly to the skin — a hard excrescence, — the 

 «' seed wart," — which is too well known to require particular description. 

 It is sometimes difficult to distinguish the blood wart, as the former is 

 Bometimes called, from the seed wart ; but it generally presents a more 

 rounded, smooth appearance, and sometimes hangs as by a little stem, in 

 which last case it is readily known. 



What to do. — If there is doubt as to the character of the wart, the 

 miitter maj^ he speedily determined by running a sharp-knife through it ; 

 when, if a blood or sac wart, the contents will come out, accompanied 

 by more or less copious bleeding ; whereas, the seed wart will in tliia 

 ease be merely divided by the incision, each part retaining its firmness or 

 consistency. 



When the blood wart is thus opened, nothing more will be necessary 

 than to touch the part with a solution of chlonde of zinc, one grain tc 

 the ounce of water, or lunar caustic. When these warts are attached to 

 the skin by narrow bases, or small stems, they may be clipped off with 

 knife or scissors, and the part slightly burned over with caustic as pre- 

 viously directed. 



If the growth is of the fixed kind, or seed wart, remove by means of 

 «Mqssors or knife when standing singly ; but if the stem or base is large, 



