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Treatment. This is similar to that employed in vesicular 

 stomatitis. Considering the contagions nature of the disease, 

 sick animals should be separated from the healthy ones. 



Literature. Degive, Ann., 1884, 369.— Deppe, A. f. Tk., 1899, XXV, 199.— 

 Haag, W. f. Tk., 1907, 906.— Hess, Kongr. Bern., 1899, 382.— Ostertag & Bugge, 

 Z. f. Infkr., 1905, I, 3.— Tiarks, Pr. \h., 1904, II, 72. (Compare also the literature 

 on Pseudostomatitis ; Pseudomaulseuehe.) 



Other Diseases Similar to Stomatitis. Aside from aphthous 

 stomatitis of sucklings and from contagious papulous stomatitis, diseases 

 have been observed in cattle and exceptionally in sheep which, on the 

 basis of pathologic-anatomical changes, are best classified with aphthous 

 stomatitis. Among them are to be mentioned the following: sporadic 

 stomatitis (Maul- _ 



seuche, Utz), affec- 

 tions similar to foot- 

 and-mouth disease 

 (Bang, Stribolt, An- 

 dersen, Kern), pseu- 

 do mouth-disease or 

 stomatitis erosiva 

 (Pusch), thrush of 

 cattle (Hajnal), epi- 

 zootic inflammation 

 of the mouth of 

 sheep (Vigadi), 

 stomatitis ulcerosa 

 in cattle (Bedel), 

 p s e u d o foot-and- 

 mouth disease (Kan- 

 torowicz), stomatitis 

 mycotica ( Mohler ) , 

 stomatitis pseudo- 

 aphthosa (Cadeac). 

 Concerning their 

 etiology, these af- 

 fections may be di- 

 vided into three 

 groups. The first 

 group comprises 

 those diseases w4iich 

 are contagious and 

 which consequently must be due to an infectious agency, 

 which in part of these cases may be the bacillus necrophorus (see Necro- 

 bacillosis). In the affections of the second group (Utz, Bruemmer, 

 Bang, Stribolt, Andersen, Kantorowicz) injurious food appears to be 

 the exciting cause. The appearance of such diseases has followed upon 

 feeding with green clover. They are not contagious. In the other non- 

 contagious diseases of this kind, nothing positive is known as to their 

 cause. Pusch believes that they may be due to some noxious agent which 

 becomes a disease producer only when the resistance of the organism has 

 been lowered by overexertion (as in railroad transit), irregular care or 



Pscudu-Aplithoiis Liflamniation in Cattle 

 (According to Kern) . 



