220 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



fortunately rare. There is likely to be disorder of stomach 

 and bowels, loss of appetite, bloating, rumbling in the 

 beUy, badly digested, foetid stools and great languor and 

 depression. Use washes containing tincture of iodine or 

 chlorate of potassa, and iodide of potassium internally. 



WABTS ON THE LIPS 



Are very common in dogs. Eemove with scissors and 

 cauterize the roots thoroughly with a pointed stick of lunar 

 caustic. 



LACEEATION OF THE TONGUE. 



Causes. Especially common in horses from hard bits, 

 nooses of ropes, or rough dragging with the hand. The 

 lacerated tongue may hang from the mouth. Sew up the 

 wound with catgut previously softened in water; feed 

 thick gruels only, and wash out the mouth frequently 

 with a lotion of permanganate of potassa. Any dead por- 

 tion must be removed with the knife, but it must not en- 

 croach on the hving. The whole organ may often be 

 saved when almost entirely torn off. 



CYSTS UNDER THE TONGUE. 



These are tense elastic rounded swellings and are easily 

 remedied by a fiee incision with the knife. 



TUMOES IN THE MOUTH. 



These mostly grow from the gums and tongue, and may 

 attain the si^e of the closed fist in the horse. Small ones 

 may be removed with scissors, the larger with the ecraseur. 



CANCKOn) OF THE LIPS. CANCEE OF THE TONGUE. 



The former of these attacks the angle of the mouth in 

 horses and cats as an eroded unhealthy sore with hard 

 thickened margins; the latter appears in horses and 

 cattle as an increasing hard swelling with unhealthy open 

 sore and giant cells. It should be excised when vei-.7 

 limited. Later it is incnrnble. 



