ULCERATIVK STOMATITIS IN SWINE. 



Causes : improper food ; filthy pens ; debility ; toxins of specific diseases ; 

 microbian infection. Symptoms : inappetence ; grinding teeth ; champing 

 jaws ; salivation ; foetor ; buccal swelling and redness ; pulpy spots ; des- 

 quamation ; ulcers ; pharyngeal, enteric and osseous complications. Treat- 

 ment : vSegregation ; disinfection ; local antiseptic washes ; tonics. 



Tills is the Scorbutus of Friedberger and Frohuer, tlie gloss- 

 anthrax of Benion. 



Causes. It has been attributed to insufficient or irritant food, 

 to damp, close pens, and to chronic debilitating diseases and all 

 these act as predisposing catises. In gastritis and in infectious 

 fevers like hog cholera, swine-plagi:e, and ronget ( hog erysipelas) 

 the spots of conge.stion and petechiae on the buccal mucous mem- 

 brane may become the starting points for ulcerative inflamma- 

 tions. These conditions appear, however, to be supplemented by 

 infection from bacteria present in the mottth or introduced in 

 food and water, and as in the case of other domestic animals the 

 most successful treatment partakes largely of disinfectant appli- 

 cations. 



Symptoms. lyOss of appetite, grinding of the teeth, champing 

 of the jaws, the formation of froth round the lips, foetor of the 

 breath, redness of the gums and tongue, and the formation of 

 vesicles or white patches which fall off leaving red angry sores. 

 These ma}' extend forming deep unhealthy ulcers, with increas- 

 ing .salivation and foetor. As the disease advances the initial 

 dullness and pro,stration become more profound, and debility and 

 emaciation advance rapidl}- . Unless there is early improvement 

 an infective pharj'ugitis, or enteritis sets in, manifestly determined 

 b}' the swallowing of virulent matters from the mouth, and swell- 

 ing, redness and tenderness of the throat, or colics and offensive 

 black diarrhoea hasten a fatal issue. Rachitis ma}' be a promi- 

 nent complication, as it .seems in some instances to be a predis- 

 posing cause. 



Treatment. I.solate the healthy from the diseased and apply 

 disinfection to all exposed articles and places. Emplo}' local an- 

 tiseptics as on the other animals. Sulphuric or hydrochloric 



