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capable of entering and irritating gland ducts or sores, or food which is 

 fermented or putrid, food or medicine of an irritant character. The habit 

 of catching and holding swine with a running noose over the upper jaw, 

 and the forcing of the jaws apart with a piece of wood in search of the 

 CijsticercHs ccllulosa are further causes. In several specific infectious 

 diseases inflammation of the mucous membrane, with eruption or erosion, 

 is not uncommon. This aphthous fever is marked by vesicular eruption, 

 muguet b}^ epithelial proliferation and desquamation, hog cholera and 

 swine plague by circumscribed spots of 'necrosis and erosion. Patches of 

 false membrane are not unknown, and local anthrax, tubercle, and acti- 

 nomycosis are to be met with. Inflammation may start from decaying 

 teeth." 



" Symptoms resemble those in other animals, refusal of food, or a dis- 

 position to eat sparingly, to select soft or liquid aliments, to swallow hard 

 materials half chewed, or to drop them, to champ the jaws, and to seek 

 cold water. Accumulation of froth around the lips is often seen, and 

 the mouth is red, angry, dry, and hot, and exhales a bad odour." 



" Treatment does not differ materially from that adopted in other 

 animals : Cooling, astringent, antiseptic lotions, honey and vinegar, and 

 in ease of spongy or eroded mucosa, tincture of myrrh daily or oftener. 

 Soft feeding, gruels, pulped roots, . . . and clean water should be 

 constantly within reach. In case of . . . indigestion a laxative, 

 followed by vegetable tonics, will be in order." (Law's "Veterinary 

 Medicine," Vol. II. p. 17.) 



ULCERATIVE STOMATITIS IN SWINE. 



" This is the scorbutus of Friedberger and Frohner, the glossanthrax 

 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 causes. In gastritis and in infectious fevers like 

 hog cholera, swine plague, and rouget (hog erysipelas) the spots of con- 

 gestion and petechias on the buccal mucous membrane may become the 

 starting points for ulcerative inflammations. These conditions appear, 

 however, to be supplemented by infection from bacteria present in the 

 mouth or introduced in food and water, and, as in the case of other 

 domestic animals, the most successful treatment partakes largely of dis- 

 infectant applications." 



Symptoms. " Loss of appetite, grinding of the teeth, champing of 

 the jaws, the formation of froth round the lips, foetor of the breath, red- 

 ness of the gums and tongue, and the formation of vesicles, or white 

 patches, which fall off, leaving red, angry sores. These may extend, 

 forming deep unhealthy ulcers, with increasing salivation and foetor. 



