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hurtful to the teeth. Decoctions of blackberry bark or solutions 

 of other vegetable astringents may be used as alternatives. 

 When there is evidence of irritant matters in the stomach or 

 bowels, a saline laxative will be advisable to be followed by 

 vegetable bitters or other tonics. Thorns and other foreign 

 bodies imbedded in the tongue or other part of the mouth must 

 be discovered and removed. 



CATARRHAL STOMATITIS IN SHEEP. 



The more delicate buccal mucosa in these animals would ren- 

 der them more subject to inflammations, but this is more than 

 counterbalanced by the mode of prehension of aliments, not by 

 the tongue, but by the delicately sensitive lips, and further by 

 the daintiness and care with which these animals select their 

 food. The treatment would not differ materially from that pre- 

 scribed for the ox. 



GENERAL CATARRHAL STOMATITIS IN DOGS. 



Causes : burns ; spiced food ; bones ; sepsis ; ferments ; pin caterpillar 

 dental and gastric troubles. Symptoms : careful prehension and mastica- 

 tion ; congestion ; swelling ; eruption ; erosion ; furred tongue ; stringy 

 salivation ; foetor ; swelling of lips, cheeks, intermaxillary space, and 

 pharynx. Treatment : demulcent foods ; antiseptics ; derivatives ; tonics ; 

 care of teeth and gums. 



Causes. Hot food is a common cause in hungry dogs. Spiced 

 food in house dogs fed scraps from the table tend to congestion of 

 mouth and stomach alike. Irritation through wounds with 

 bones, especially in old dogs with failing teeth, and in exceptional 

 cases the impaction of a bone between the right and left upper 

 molars are additional causes. Putrid meat must also be recog- 

 nized as a factor, the septic microbes seizing upon the wounds 

 and spreading from this as an infecting centre. Lactic acid and 

 other irritant products developed through fermentation of particles 

 of food retained about the gums and cheeks soften the epithelium 

 and irritate the sub-epithelial tissue, causing congestion. Megnin 



