22 Veterinary Medicine. 



Symptoms. With the ordinary symptoms of stomatitis, there 

 appear minute firm, whitish, circular elevations representing the 

 openings of the inflamed mucous or salivary follicles, having a 

 reddish areola, and grayish white vesicular centre with barley 

 awns, etc. They may amount to a line or more in diameter, and 

 on bursting leave red cores or ulcers. The whole mouth may be 

 affected or the disease may be confined to the lips, gums or 

 tongue. 



Treatment. Beside removal of barbs and the general astringent 

 washes, this affection is greatly benefited by the local use of anti- 

 septics, as sulphite or hyposulphite of soda, 2 drachms in a quart 

 of water. Borax, permanganate of potash, carbolic acid or other 

 antiseptic in suitable solution may be substituted. Saline laxa- 

 tives are often useful to remove souces of irritation in stomach 

 and intestines, and iron salts (chloride or nitrate) in full and 

 frequently repeated doses may be given internally. Ulcers may 

 be cauterized and soft food and pure water given from an elevated 

 manger. 



ULCERATIVE STOMATITIS. GANGRENOUS 

 STOMATITIS. 



Causes : specific disease poisons ; debility ; rachitis ; cancer ; chronic 

 suppuration , irritation— mechanical, chemical, thermic, venomous, etc. 

 Symptoms : difficult, imperfect prehension and mastication, salivation, 

 bleeding, swollen, puffy epithelium, blisters, extending erosions, deep or 

 spreading. Duration. Treatment : correct constitutional fault, tonics, 

 soft, digestible food, antiseptics, mild caustics. 



This is characterized by the formation of necrotic spots and 

 patches of the buccal epithelium, with desquamation, and the 

 formation of more or less rodent ulcers of the sub-epithelial 

 mucosa. Uike other ulcerative processes it is usually due to mi- 

 crobic invasion, and in this way it may supervene on other and 

 simpler forms of stomatitis. It also varies in its manifestations 

 and nature according to the genus of animal, and the specific 

 microbe present. 



