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At 09:59 PM 10/6/2004, Stephanie E Caldwell wrote:
> My vet just gave me a sticky tar-like salve to put on
> my mare with a little spot of melanoma--- makes it
> scab and weep but looks like it will work---

Sounds like bloodroot salve to me.  The scab and weeping part is the clue - 
bloodroot makes the site look worse than when you started for a while, but 
it does get rid of those tumors and things, or so I've been told.

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