ULCERATIVE STOMATITIS IN SWINE. . 



Causes: improper food ; filthy pens; debility; toxins of specific diseases ; 

 microbian infection. Symptoms : inappetence ; grinding teeth ; champing 

 jaws ; salivation ; fcetor ; buccal swelling and redness ; pulpy spots ; des- 

 quamation ; ulcers ; pharyngeal, enteric and osseous complications. Treat- 

 ment : Segregation ; disinfection ; local antiseptic washes ; tonics. 



This is the Scorbutus of Friedberger and Frohner, the gloss- 

 anthrax of Benion. 



Causes. It has been attributed to insufficient or irritant food, 

 to damp, close pens, and to chronic debilitating diseases and all 

 these act as predisposing causes. In gastritis and in infectious 

 fevers like hog cholera, swine-plague, and rouget (hog erysipelas) 

 the spots of congestion and petechiae on the buccal mucous mem- 

 brane may become the starting points for ulcerative inflamma- 

 tions. These conditions appear, however, to be supplemented 

 by infection from bacteria pfesent in the mouth or introduced in 

 food and water, and as in the case of other domestic animals the 

 most successful treatment partakes largely of disinfectant appli- 

 cations. 



Symptoms. Eoss of appetite, grinding of the teeth, champing 

 of the jaws, the formation of froth round the lips, foetor of the 

 breath, redness of the gums and tongue, and the formation of 

 vesicles or white patches which fall off leaving red angry sores. 

 These may extend forming deep unhealthy ulcers, with increas- 

 ing salivation and fcetor. As the disease advances the initial 

 dullness and prostration become more profound, and debility and 

 emaciation advance rapidly. Unless there is early improvement 

 an infective pharyngitis, or enteritis sets in, manifestly determined 

 by the swallowing of virulent matters from the mouth, and swell- 

 ing, redness and tenderness of the throat, or colics and offensive 

 black diarrhoea hasten a fatal issue. Rachitis may be a promi- 

 nent complication, as it seems in some instances to be a predis- 

 posing cause. 



Treatment. Isolate the healthy from the diseased and apply 

 disinfection to all exposed articles and places. Employ local an- 

 tiseptics as on the other animals and especially to the mam- 

 mse, in nursing sows. Sulphuric or hydrochloric acids in 50 



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