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rated with cooling lotion after cauterizing the border, and in two 
hours the colt was nursing and did not appear to mind it. Of 
course I left the pledget in so as to dilate the orifice. 
CASE OF MOLLUSCOID FIBROMATA IN A HEIFER.* 
By Austin Petees, M.R.C.Y.S. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen : 
I thought the following case might be interesting, as it is un¬ 
like anything I have ever seen before. 
January 31st I went to the farm of Mr. H., at Concord, 
Mass., the owner having requested me to come out there, a few 
days previous to the above date, to see a two-year-old Jersey 
heifer, which had a lot “little tumors on her belly, which look 
more like a lot of mushrooms growing upon her ” than anything 
he could think of. 
The heifer was indeed a sight to behold. The under surface 
was a mass of warty-looking tumors, hanging down several inches, 
extending forward to within three or four inches of the fore legs, 
and backward covering the udder and extending some distance 
up the escutcheon. 
They were pedunculated, massed closely together, and varied 
in size from a pea to a hen’s egg. Their surface was smooth and 
devoid of hair, and they looked very much like a cluster of small 
potatoes, or, as the owner suggested, “ mushrooms,” depending 
from the ventral surface of the body. I started to count them, 
but as I had to take a train back to Boston, found I had not time, 
but estimated their number at from six to eight hundred. I re¬ 
moved two or three of the largest by twisting them from their 
pedicles. When fresh cut in two with a knife, the cut surface 
presented a pearly glistening appearance and a quantity of se¬ 
rous fluid dripped from them; at the base blood vessels entering 
them could be clearly seen, which in dividing and spreading 
through the substance of the tumor gave a very pretty injection 
^Transactions of the Massachusetts Veterinary Association, Special Meeting, 
March,18th, 1889. 
