CHALAZION.
This is a pea like tumor growing from the tarsal cartilage, its flattened side toward the mucosa, which is red and angry, and its round surface toward the skin. When manipulated between the fingers it moves with the tarsus. It is usually of slow growth and may continue for years apparently unchanged. Some have thought it tuberculous, but its true nature is uncertain. Warner records the disease in the horse.
Treatment consists in incision and removal of the tumor, curretting of the cavity, and after antiseptic douching, suturing the lips.