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Should excision be objected to, the next best plan is the use of caus- 
tic. Strong acetic acid, only to be generally obtained as aromatic vin- 
egar, is the mildest cautery; the next in strength is butter of antimony; 
after that, ranks nitrate of silver, or lunar caustic; and lastly, comes a 
preparation invented by Mr. Woodger, to whose perceptions the veteri- 
nary profession is so largely indebted. It consists of sulphuric acid, 
made into a paste with powdered sulphur, and applied by means of a 
flat piece of wood. 
Whichever remedy is adopted, it must be remembered that the appli- 
cation will occupy time in exact proportion to the mildness of the means 
employed. It may also be proper to hint to the reader that, as an 
animal has no foreknowledge to alarm its anticipatory fears, and as, the 
anguish past, the mind of the creature does not linger upon painful 
recollections, probably the knife is to be very much preferred. 
Some people remove warts by ligatures. To this custom the author 
strongly objects, for the following reasons: Because the process is slow; 
because the pain is great and continuous, till the removal is accom- 
plished ; because the ligature soon becomes filthy, the wart, when large, 
often turning putrid before it falls off; and because, when small, the 
breadth of base and the slight projection render fixing a ligature an 
utter impossibility. 
TUMORS. 
It is impossible to particularize the nature of every tumor to which 
the horse is subject, such formations being so very various. Seldom 
are two cases met with in which a precisely 
similar structure is developed. More seldom 
are two cases encountered located upon the 
same part. These growths are liable to every 
possible change. One may be very small, but 
extremely malignant, or of that kind which 
seems to resent the slightest interference. Em- 
ploy the knife to this last sort, and incurable 
ulceration may start up. All remedies may be 
powerless and the life may be sacrificed. Such 
growths are, happily, rare in the equine species; 
but the author has heard of their occurrence, 
‘ : AN ABNORMAL GROWTH UPON A 
although it has not been his misfortune to en- HORSE'S CHEST. 
counter one. Another shall be of such enor- 
mous size as to impede the motions, yet will be perfectly bland in its 
nature. <A portrait, not of the largest tumor which the writer has wit- 
nessed, but of the most awkwardly situated, is represented herewith. 
