rubber band, or
if too broad it may be transfixed through its base by a needle armed
with a double thread, which is then to be cut in two and tied around the
two portions of the neck of the tumor. If still broader, the armed
needle may be carried through the base of the tumor at regular
intervals, so that the whole may be tied in moderately sized sections.

In gray and in white horses black, pigmentary tumors (melanotic) are
common on the black portions of skin, such as the eyelids, and are to be
removed by scissors or knife, according to their size. In the horse they
do not usually tend to recur when thoroughly removed, but at times they
prove cancerous (as is the rule in man), and then they tend to reappear
in the same site or in internal organs with, it may be, fatal effect.

Encysted, honeylike (melicerous), sebaceous, and fibrous tumors of the
lids all require removal with the knife.

TORN EYELIDS OR WOUNDS OF EYELIDS.

The eyelids are torn by attacks with horns of cattle, or with the teeth,
or by getting caught on nails in stall, rack, or manger, on the point of
stumps, fences, or fence rails, on the barbs of wire fences, and on
other pointed bodies. The edges should be brought together as promptly
as possible, so as to effect union without the formation of matter,
puckering of the skin, and unsightly distortions. Great care is
necessary to bring the two edges together evenly without twisting or
puckering. The simplest mode of holding them together is by a series of
sharp pins passed through the lips of the wound at intervals of not more
than a third of an inch, and held together by a thread twisted around
each pin in the form of the figure 8, and carried obliquely from pin to
pin in two directions, so as to prevent gaping of the wound in the
intervals. The points of the pins may then be cut off with scissors, and
the wound may be wet twice a day with a weak solution of carbolic acid.

TUMOR OF THE HAW, OR CARIES OF THE CARTILAGE.

Though cruelly excised for alleged "hooks," when itself perfectly
healthy, in the various diseases which lead to retraction of the eye
into its socket, the haw may, like other bodily structures, be itself
the seat of actual disease. The pigmentary, black tumors of white horses
and soft (encephaloid) cancer may attack this part primarily or extend
to it from the eyeball or eyelids; hairs have been found growing from
its surface, and the mucous membrane covering it becomes inflam