124 DISEASES OF THE MOUTH. 



Treatment. Curative treatment always appears to be ineffectual 

 when a grave primary disease has already enfeebled the animal before 

 necrosing stomatitis appears. In those cases where the stomatitis con- 

 stitutes the primary condition, attempts should be made as far as possible 

 to cleanse the wounds. The buccal cavity should be thoroughly washed 

 out, and the wounds then cauterised with solution of carbolic acid of 

 6 per cent, strength, nitric acid of 10 per cent, strength, hydrochloric 

 acid of 7 to 8 per cent, strength, or chromic acid of 20 per cent, 

 strength. 



This local cauterisation is performed with a tampon of cotton wool 

 fixed to a handle ; for necessarily it is impossible to apply any dressing 

 whatever of a permanent nature. The cauterisations may be repeated 

 twice a day. The stump of the umbilical cord should never be forgotten, 

 for it sometimes contains a mass of necrotic tissue the size of a man's 

 thumb. It should be thoroughly cleansed and the wound plugged with 

 a mixture of iodoform and boric acid. 



This treatment will not avail unless the functions are stimulated by 

 rich food that can be easily masticated and digested, and by giving milk 

 of good quality, or boiled milk, eggs, meat-powder, cooked beans, etc. 

 Aromatic infusions and hay tea containing coffee and small quantities 

 of alchohol or tincture of quinine are also of service. 



MYCOTIC STOMATITIS IN CALVES. 



Thrush. Mugiiet. 



" This is a form of stomatitis manifested by a raised white patch on the 

 mucous membrane and determined by the presence of the Oidium albicans 

 {Saccharomyces albicans), a cryptogam discovered by Berg in 1842 in 

 thrush in children. It is closely allied to the mucor, and attacks only the 

 young and feeble. The white crust consists of epithelial cells intermingled 

 with an abundance of the white mycelium and oval spores of the fungus. 

 Andry in his artificial cultures found that it was pearly white when grown 

 on gelatine, dirty white on potato, and snow white on carrot." 



Symptoms. '' Buccal mucosa, red, congested and tender, shows here 

 and there white curdy looking elevations, or red erosions caused by the 

 detachment of such masses. These bear a strong resemblance to the 

 crusts seen on this mucosa in rinderpest, but are easily distinguished 

 by the absence of the attendant fever, and by the discovery, under the 

 microscope, of the specific microphyte. The eruption may extend to the 

 pharynx and oesophagus and interfere fatally with deglutition, but usually 

 it merely renders sucking painful and is not serious." 



Treatment. Cleanse and disinfect the sheds, " and invigorate the young 

 animals by sunshine, free air and exercise. Locally . . . borax, which 



