Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-05-25
WHAT Is LuMpY JAW?
DR.. Porter Gives Advise on the Subject
lie Takes Issue With q. L. Miller, Who
Wrote Some Weeks Ago.

lie Takes Issue With q. L. Miller, VIII,
Wrote some Weeks Ago.
EDITOR CENSOR: / have waited 70
some one to write his experience OF
lumpy jaw, as requested by Mr.. Mile
a few weeks ago, before replying to hi
production on that disease. He saws
II do not think Morton's cattle had In,
real lnmpy jaw" Now there is but on,
kind OF lumpy Jaw, or aetinomycoeis
and that kind rs caused by a rayee
vegetable parasite or fungus which /.
inf '%ctious, and possibly may be contsg
lons, and affects men aud the lowe,
animals. 1t is the oftsnest noticed
affecting the lower jaw in cattle.
Bol1inger discovered the characteristic
fungus of this disease, in 1877, in cattle
In 1892 five hundred cases had bsen re-,
corded as occurring ir man. Men in.
hale the germs while handling grail
and the tumor forms in the lungs. They
eat wheat or oats Rnd the germs lodge
IN The gums or digestive organs and
actinomycosis results.
Mr.. Miller says: "My judgment is,
that in all cases of durable lumpy Jaw.
as in Morton's case, the trouble is not
from a germ or vegetable parasite, but
from the boards on the straw" Allow
me to say again, lumy jaw is actinomy.
COSTS; and that is caused by a vegetable
parasite, whether durable or not. This
disease is characterized by bright yellow
ish seed like bodies, the sizs OF a millet
seed, which are found in the tumor. II
a tumor contains them it is actiuomy-
cotic; if not it is come other tumor.
Evidently Mr.. Miller is writing about
one disease, while / was writing abont
another. 1 wrote about lumpy jaw,
while ne wrote about sores ard abscesses
caused by b ards. Mr.. Miller's liniment
is no doubt all right for his kind of abb
s.esses Nature does the work there
and removes the ba ley beard; but in a
case of lumpv jaw lie had better pour
his liniment down a rat hole aud speedily
resort to the scientific procedure for
curing the disease before the germs have
gotten into the deeper structures. Mr..
Morton has read the government reports
on the cure of this disease aud has cured
casas before, and can diagnose it. and
the simple fact hat he has inst cured
four cases of lumpy jaw with the iodide
of potash, is pretty good evidence that
he was dealing with cases of active
mycosis, becau 70 the iodide cures about
70 per can't of cases OF that disease, how
ever severe they are. The tumor may
be cut out when small and the wound
swabbed with iodizad phenol; the bleed
ing may be stopped with a hot iron. If
n of the germs are left in the wound
the tumor may return.
F%raenkel's Bacteriology describes
these tumors as whitish, rather compact
swellings, which grow rapidly and final
ly FIXTURE. Another authority says:
''In the course of weeks or months q
special softening occurs in the tumor
which discharges itself; this softenad
area cicatrizas quickly" 1t heals
quickly after having discharged but
little matter. So Mr.. Miller will see
that his advice to fuse the knife on the
lower side of tumor" and 'open it when
You are satisfied it will discharge freely"
is hardly appropriate In cases of actino-
mycosis. The remedy is exterpation,
either with the knife or by the use of
iodide of potassium, in something like
drschm doses once a day for ten days.
1t is given in a pint OF water, and for
the first three days two dracbms daily
may be given. Mr.. Miller would kill
and bury an animal where bones OF head
were badly diseased, and 80 would 1
de would not like to use the milk or
meat of any apimal with iDhamed sores
on neck or THROAT. Neither will I use
such milk or meat, if I know it. An
animal having Assesses, or running
sores, Is not at for human food. But
lum oy jaw is not constitutional trouble
until very late. 1t is purely local
affection. IL a COW has a bunch q, her
jaw the size of a lemon, and it is covered
with healthy skin, is solid, and the
trouble is purely local, as much so as a
bullet encysted there, I do not see
why that tumor should injurs her milk
or meat for human food, and on that
point | have, [ believe, tho bureau of
ami nal industry on my side.
Mr.. Miller says doctors disagree upon
the question OF cause and cure of this
disease. Of course the man who is
twenty years behind the times will dis
agree with us who are up with the times
regarding it, because the germ of the
disease was described accurately only
twenty-one years ago, and the cure of
lumpy law by using icdide of potash
was given to the world only in 1892, by
DIR. Norgaard, a young Norwegian vet
Urinary, who lived in Westhy the year
before, and who was appointed veterin-
airy inspector by Secrstary Rusk.
When we write on this disease we en-
counter a good many fossils who pitch
into us, but we find they are ignorant
on this subject and refer them to high
authorities that they may learn the
truth 10 the matter. [ am not "the-
oriz 'ng' but writing the plain truth to
help my fellow men to save their cattle
instead of killing them. Porter Bid
well. the stall man of McGregor, told
me he killed two fine COWS that had
small Jumps on their jaws because the
veterinary editor OF Hoard's Dairyman
advised killing and burning such cattle.
Lumpy jaw is infectious; a good
many cattle may become infected by it
by eating grain or hay grown on a low,
damp rich soil. The germ exists in
many places : the fens of England; the
rich steppe lands of the Volga; the
prairies OF Illinois and the plains of the
far west, where only buffalo grass grows,
All these locations contain the germs of
actinomycosis. Us IL contagious? 1t is
possible to convey the germs from one
animal to another 'but such transmission
must be considered extremely rare"
With one steer having q suppurating
tumor and another with a barb wire cut,
it would be possible to inoculate the
wire cut with the germs of this disease,
but probably ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred contract the malady from the
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