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CORRESPONDENCE. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
CANCROID OF THE EAR. 
Vermilion, D.T., July 21, 1882. 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sir. —A short time ago I sent you in a tin box two 
tumors removed from near the point of a horse’s ear. The history 
is as follows: Early this spring a two year old white colt was 
brought over with the request to remove a tumor from his left 
ear. I found the tumor to be large, rounded and its whole surface 
bleeding and attached for about three inches to the rim of the car- 
tilage of the ear; on the neck 1 also found two other tumors, very 
much smaller, of the same character, but pedunculated. These lat¬ 
ter were removed by the elastic ligature and have not reappeared. 
The large tumor was removed by the knife and weighed seven 
and one-half ounces. On account of its constantly bleeding surface 
and its appearance on being cut, I diagnosed a cancroid, which 
diagnosis I am by no means sure of. About 6 weeks after the 
tumor was removed the colt was returned to me with another, on 
the same place, but smaller, weighing three and one-quarter ounces. 
It was removed, the skin on botli sides of the cartilage carefully 
dissected off and a piece of cartilage removed, but now after a 
lapse of four weeks the tumor is there again, as large as a hickory 
nut. Again cut off and actual cautery by the pointed needle ap¬ 
plied. After the two first operations I told the owner to appply 
caustic (nitrate of silver) to the raw surface, but he claims he 
could not keep the tumor from growing. Would like very much 
to know if my diagnosis of a cancroid is correct. 
Very respectfully, 
G. S. Agersborg. 
[We regret that in our absence the specimens referred to had 
so much softened that their true histological nature could not be 
made out.— Ed.] 
IMAGINARY WRONGS. 
Mr. Editor: 
Dear Sir.— In looking over the last issue of the Review 
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