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liii, salicylic acid, or salicylate of soda, may be applied directly 

 to the diseased mucous membrane. Tincture of chloride of iron 

 in water (1:2) is one of the best agents (James). Carbolic 

 acid I drachm in 6 oz. water, and i oz. alcohol has been used 

 safely and with excellent results (Lenglen). Like most other 

 antiseptics, however, this latter must be used with caution as re- 

 gards the amount. No actively poisonous antiseptic is admissible. 

 The antiseptic should be swabbed over the whole interior of the 

 mouth after each meal. 



In case of deep gangrenous masses excision and antisejitics are 

 demanded. 



ULCERATIVE STOMATITIS IN LAMBS AND KIDS. 



Causes : Accessor}-, locality, youth, debility, unsuitable food, impure air, 

 parasitism, contagion. Bacteria. Symptoms : difficult sucking, frothing, 

 salivation, buccal redness and swelling, white, softened patches, suppura- 

 tion, granulation, foetor, emaciation, debility, bowel symptoms, respiratory. 

 Duration. Treatment : Artificial feeding, antisepsis, disinfection, mild 

 caustics, etc. 



Causes. This has been noticed as an enzootic affection in 

 young and debilitated animals, while the mature and more robust 

 ones escape. Ansemic lambs, those that are fed on watery, in- 

 luitritious materials (potatoes, grains, waste of sugar factories), 

 those kept in close confiirement, indoors, and those that suffer 

 from distomatosis show the disease. Impure air, damj), dark 

 ])laces and impure water have their influence. The disease is 

 manifestly contagious, l^ut the infecting microbe has not been 

 demonstrated. It was formerly stipposed to be the oidinni albi- 

 cans, the fungus of mugiiet, but Neumann demonstrated its ab- 

 sence, and though he found leptothrix buccalis, bacilli, spirochcete 

 and micrococci he failed to show that any one of these in pure 

 culture would cause the disease. Rivolta charged it on bacterium 

 subtile agnoriim and Berdt on the polydesnuis exitiosus which ac- 

 cording to him the sheep contract from eating rape cake. The 

 withdrawal of the cake led to a rapid recovery. 



