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If from alkalies (lye) use weak vinegar. If from caustic salts 

 employ white of egg, vegetable-gluten, boiled linseed, slippery 

 elm, or other compound of albumen or sheathing agent. In 

 ordinary cases use cold astringent lotions, such as vinegar and 

 water ; vinegar and honey ; borax, boric or carbolic acid, chlorate 

 of potash, alum or tannin and honey. Poultices applied around 

 the throat and beneath the lower jaw are often of great value. 

 The bowels may be relieved if necessary by injections, as it is 

 usually difficult to give anything by the mouth. If ulcers form 

 touch them daily with a stick of lunar caustic or with a fine brush 

 dipped in a solution of ten grains of that agent in an ounce of 

 distilled water. For sloughs use a lotion of permanganate of 

 potash, one drachm to one pint of water, or one of carbolic acid, 

 one part to fifty of water. If an abscess forms give a free exit to 

 the pus with the lancet, and afterward support the system by soft 

 nourishing diet, and use disinfectants locally. As in all cases of 

 stomatitis, the food must be cold gruels or mashes, or finely 

 sliced roots will often be relished. 



The mechanical expedient of supporting the tongue in a bag is 

 essential in all bad cases, as if allowed to hang pendulous from 

 the mouth inflammation and swelling are dangerously aggravated. 



APHTHOUS STOMATITIS. FOLLICULAR STOMATITIS. 



Causes : in horse, ox, dog ; rough, fibrous food, blistering ointments, bac- 

 teria. Symptoms : general stomatitis, and special ; papules with grayish 

 centres and red areolae, vesiculation, ulceration. Treatment : Astringent, 

 antiseptic, derivative, tonic, stimulant. 



This is a rare affection in ruminants where the thickness of 

 the epithelial covering appears to be a barrier to infection or in- 

 jury, while it is common in the more delicate and sensitive buc- 

 cal mucosa of the horse and dog. In the horse the ingestion of 

 irritant plants with the food and the penetration of vegetable 

 barbs (barley awns, etc. ) into the mucous follicles may be charged 

 with causing the disease, while in both horse and dog the licking 

 of blistering ointments and the local action of fungi and bacteria 

 are factors in different cases. 



