GENERAL CATARRHAL STOMATITIS IN SWINE. 



Causes : Irritants ; ferments ; noose on jaw ; specific poisons. Symp- 

 toms : Careful feeding ; thirst ; frothy lips ; champ jaws : redness ; swell- 

 ing ; fcetor. Treatment : Cooling, astringent, antiseptic lotions ; mushy 

 food ; derivative ; tonics. 



Causes. Swine suffer from simple stomatitis when exposed to 

 thermal, mechanical or chemical irritants. Food that is too hot, 

 or that which is hard and fibrous, or that which contains spikes 

 and awns, 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 cysticercus cellulosa 

 are further causes. In several specific infectious diseases inflam- 

 mation of the mucous membrane with eruption or erosion is not 

 uncommon. Thus aphthous fever is marked by vesicular erup- 

 tion, muguet by 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 actinomycosis are to be met with. Inflam- 

 mation may start from decaying teeth. 



Symptoms are like as in other animals, refusal of food, or a 

 disposition 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 odor. 



Treatment does not differ materially from that adopted in other 

 animals. Cooling, astringent, antiseptic lotions, honey and vine- 

 gar, and in case of spongy or eroded mucosa, tincture of myrrh 

 daily or oftener. Soft feeding, gruels, pulped roots, or well kept 

 ensilage may be used, and clean, cool water should be constantly 

 within reach. In case of overloaded stomach or indigestion a 

 laxative followed by bitter tonics will be in order. 



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