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application of antiseptics, and the cervical glands become 

 enlarged. In the Great Dane patient (Fig. 103) the palate 

 bones had become perforated. 



Cancer ma}' always be considered in animals as ^\•elI as in 

 man to be mainl)- a disease of old or adult age, and this fact, 

 too, is of \'alue as an aid to diagnosis. In a paper (illustrated 

 by a number of sketches, photographs, and actual specimens) 

 read before the Central \'L'terinar\- Medical Society- in April, 



Fig. 104. — Deformity of the Face due to Carcinoma of the Lips. 



1905,^ and the discussion which follo\^•ed, practicalh' in e\'er)- 



case the affected patients had a\'eraged in age from eight to 



fifteen years. Professor ^IcFadyean, in an article upon ' The 



Occurrence of Cancer in the Lower Animals,' summarizing 



from a list of some forty-nine tabulated cases, also drew 



attention to the fact that the individuals attacked were nearly 



alwa\'s middle aged or old.- 



Treatment. — ^^'hen microscopical examination, at the hands 



of an e.xpert pathologist, has \'erified the suspicion of the 



^ I'eterinnry RccorJ^ voL xvii., p. 694. 



^ Journal of Coiiiparathie Patliology mid Thcra-hciitics, vol. xii., p. 137. 



