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is best to throw the animal and secure it before attempting 
to cut the cancer out. As soon as this is done burn the 
wound well with a red-hot iron, bathe it twice a day with 
lukewarm water and apply the green salve and white lotion 
after each bathing. If, at any time afterwards, there should 
appear to be a red spot growing, tie the animal up and give 
the spot another good burning with the red-hot iron, and 
keep this treatment up until it is healed. 
In some cases when the disease has run on too long 
before cutting it out, or after it is cut out, it grows again 
worse than at first, or where it has been entirely neglected 
and allowed to run on so long that the bones become affected 
and smell bad, destroy the animal and burn the carcass, as it 
is not fit for beef and would be very apt to communicate 
cancer to anyone eating the meat. 
3. Abscesses. 
Abscesses are of two kinds, (a) serous, and (b) festered 
(a) A Serous Abscess is merely a bruise containing water 
or serum. 
Causes. — It is the result of a bruise and is usually found 
in the vicinity of the shoulders or under the breast. Any 
part of the body, however, may be affected. 
Symptoms. — About twenty-four hours after the bruise 
there is a swelling varying in size from an egg to that of a 
man's head. When you press on it you can tell there is fluid 
in it, and on opening it you will find it to be watery looking 
and mixed with blood. 
Treatment. — Cut a hole in the bottom part of the lump 
large enough in which to run your finger. Clean all the fluid 
out, then bathe the part well with lukewarm water and salt, 
and insert melted green salve up into the lump through the 
hole with a feather twice a day. Run your finger into the 
hole once a day to keep it open until it heals inside. Each 
time after bathing rub the outside of the swelling with white 
liniment to assist in removing the thickening and keeping the 
swelling down. 
(b) Festered Abscesses are those that contain matter. 
Causes. — Distemper, bruises, or a cut healing over some 
substance left in it which afterwards festers may give rise to 
a festered abscess. 
