t)ISEASES AND TREATMENT OF CATTLE 439 
Mix and apply according to directions as given for the 
blister on cattle. If this does not fix it try the iodine the 
same as for cattle. Should an operation be necessary dissolve 
six grains of cocaine in a half ounce of pure water. Inject 
this with a hypodermic syringe well down into the tumor 
hfteen minutes before commencing. This deadens the pain 
and facilitates matters during the operation. 
Throw the animal and secure him. Make a long cut in 
ihe skin over the tumor and cut around it until you have it 
cut out. After the tumor is out and the wound is bleeding, 
take a large piece of dry cotton batting about the size of the 
tumor and shove it into the opening, then sew up the skin 
similar to sewing a wound. Leave it sewed up for twenty- 
four hours; then take a couple of stitches out of the lower 
part of the wound, take the batting out and dress it by 
bathing with lukewarm water and soap twice a day. After 
each bathing dress the wound by inserting melted green salve 
with a feather up into it and applying white lotion around 
the outside and inside of the cut. Continue this treatment 
until healed. If the tumor lies near a large vein such as the 
jugular vein, and you cannot cut it out, continue blistering it, 
and if this does not help it, paint the lump over with tincture 
of iodine every day the same as above mentioned. This 
treatment may be followed for tumors either in the horse or 
in cattle. 
2. Cancer. 
Cancers are angry looking growths generally, affecting 
cattle, sheep and dogs, and sometimes horses, around the 
head and neck. They may afifect other animals in any part of 
the body. 
Symptoms. — At the first appearance of the cancer — 
before it gets into the blood — it does not injure the health, 
but after the cancer once is settled in the blood the animal 
falls off in condition. The gcowth develops very rapidly, and 
the least irritation causes it to bleed. In some cases it grad- 
ually eats the surrounding tissue until it causes death. If 
near a bone it gradually works into it, and when the bone 
becomes affected there is a very bad smell. When the 
disease has arrived at this stage it is called bone cancer. 
Treatment. — In the first stages of the disease cut it out 
clear and clean. This sometimes prevents its spreading. It 
