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K. H. HARRISON. 
Late in one afternoon an elastic ligature was applied to the 
base of the growth, and the animal was tied up so he could not 
bite himself. Within half an hour the patient became very 
uneasy, continually pawing, and trying to rid himself of the 
source of annoyance. When seen the next morning the skin had 
not been cut through, considerable constitutional disturbance was 
manifest, the patient was uneasy, off his feed, and had a tempera¬ 
ture of 103°; pulse, 48 ; respiration, 24; the external ulcer was 
covered with antiseptic dressing powder to keep the flies away, 
and the carbolic spray was used at the point of ligation—towards 
evening the patient was less uneasy, though as yet there was no 
sign of the skin dividing. 
After four days the skin was cut through and the ligature 
rapidly cut through the soft tissues, so that in two days after, the ♦ 
whole tumor came away, leaving a very large granulating surface 
even and healthy looking. The patient had lost much flesh 
during the removal of the growth, but afterwards rapidly im¬ 
proved. The after treatment consisted in cauterization of the 
edges of the wound with nitrate of silver and dressing powder 
over the granulations. After six weeks treatment the ulcer had 
contracted an inch and is now healing slowly from its edges. 
The use of the ligature in this case was an experiment to see 
how it would work when the tumor was so large. The objections 
to its use are well pointed out. 
The animal suffers great pain, especially when the amputation 
begins so tardily. Also, as in this case, when the weather is 
warm, the sloughing mass has an intolerable odor, and there is a 
great annoyance from flies, the whole mass becoming very shortly 
alive with maggots. But more than all, is the large granulating 
surface that is left, which heals so slowly. In the case reported 
it will take at least two months more for the wound to cicatrize. 
And it seems to me that the removal of large tumors, such as 
the one referred to in this case, would be more advantageous to 
the owner if performed by the ordinary mode of simple dissection. 
