CHAPTER XVm. 



mSCELLAI^OUS MINOB DISEASE& 



S. FIGfMBNT TUMORS. II. KPITHBLIAL CANCER. III. DROPSY OF THK LUNGS. — ^-IV. 



STINGS AND BITES. V. FALLING OFF OF HAIR. VI. ACUTE IRRITATION OP THX SKIN. 



VII. HARDENING OF THE SKIN. VIII. EXOSTOSIS OF THE LOWER JAW. EX. SWELL* 



INQ BY PRESSURE OF THE BRIDLE. X. SORE NOSE. XI. ROARING, OR HIGH-BLOW- 

 ING. xn. WIND-GALLS. XIU. RUPTURE OF THE HAMSTRING. XIV, INTKBHAX. 



HEMORRHAGE. XV. PARTIAL PARALYSIS. 



I. Black Figment Tumors. 



Those black pigment tumors known by the learned name of Melanosis, 

 and which are so common in gray and white horses, attacking the baro 

 parts of the skin, as the anus, the vulva, the sheath, the udder, the lips, 

 the eye-lids, etc., are occasionally cancerous, but for the most part quite 

 harmless. If they are deemed objectionable, as disfiguring the animal, 

 remove them with the knife. 



n. Epithelial Cancer. 



This is a nipple-like cancer, which sometimes appears on the lips of 

 horses. It should be promptly removed with the knife, after which the 

 oart should be burned over with lunar caustic. 



m. Dropsy of the Lungs. 



This results from valvular and other diseases of the heart. When th« 

 ear is placed to the chest, and the horse struck on the other side with the 

 open palm, the sound heard is nearly the same as that heard in pneumo- 

 nia ; but it may be distinguished from pneumonia by the entire absence 

 of fever which characterizes lung dropsy. It is usually beyond medical 

 t«ach, as the diseased heart, its original cause, is generally incurable. 

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