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Slowness of growth, hardness of structure, and regularity of 
surface, absence of pain except when the tumor presses on the 
adjacent nerves, no tendency to become adherent to the integu¬ 
ment, no enlarged veins over the surface. 
Treatment: 
When they mature, remove with a knife or ecraseur. They 
can often be removed by making an incision in the skin and 
pressing them out by hand and dressing the sac with some 
astringent, as copper sulphate. 
Nasal polypi are a species of fibrous tumors attached by nar¬ 
row pedicle. They are of soft nature, bleeding when injured, 
growing downwards and fill nasal cavity. The diagnostic 
symptoms of this are : discharge from the nostril often tinged 
with blood, sniffling sound in breathing, and frequently sneezing. 
They may grow backward and fall into isthmus fauces. Tumor 
may not be seen. 
Treatment : 
Remove by some means and wash with astringent lotion. 
Fibrous tumors may be due to imprisonment of pns in the deep 
seated inter-muscular structures. These can be removed by the 
knife or by caustics, the former method being preferable in 
large tumors. 
Epithelioma includes all warts, corns, horns and papilloma. 
Warts consist of a thickening of the epidermis produced by accu¬ 
mulation of its scales with hypertrophy of the papillae of the true 
skin. They are found mostly on young animals, their favorite 
place being the under surface of the abdomen, the genitals, lips 
and eyelids. 
They may be removed either by excision, torsion or by 
caustics. Warts of large nature can be easily removed by put¬ 
ting a tight rubber band around the base, thus shutting off the 
blood supply and sloughing off the wart. To remove a wart 
by caustics first wash it thoroughly, and then apply any of the 
strong mineral acids, taking care not to let any of the acid 
come in contact with the surrounding skin. Usually one appli¬ 
cation suffices. 
