Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1908 — LUMP JAW. [ARTICLE]

LUMP JAW.

A Treatment That Sometimes Will Cure an Infected Animal. The following is the standard treatment for lump Jaw on cattle: If there be an opening in the tumor or swelling, inject into the opening about one teaspoonful of tincture of iodine daily. If there is no opening, rub the tincture on the skin daily, or it may be injected with a hypodermic syringe. Continue the treatment until it is evident that the growth of the tumor has stopped. If willing to give up the use. of the cow as a milker until she is cured, you may also, in addition to the treatment above prescribed, give her one and a half to two and a half teaspoonfuls of iodide of potassium divided into two doses, one in the morning and one at night, to be given in a pint of warm water. Continue this for two weeks or until signs of lodism appear, such as a scurfy skin, weeping at the eyes and dribbling from tbe nose and mouth. Then discontinue for a week or ten days and commence again if imeessary. The iodide of potassium will render the milk unfit for use. Continue to milk her regularly, however, and throw the milk away, as she may be cured In a few weeks, and then her milk will be all right. The disease itself does not render the milk unfit for use unless the cow is in the last stagee, where the general health of the cow will be Impaired.