CHRONIC GASTRITIS IN SWINE. 



Causes. Symptoms : Inappetence, dullness, arched back, colic, irregular 

 bowels, fever, emaciation. Treatment: diet, green food, milk, mashes, 

 cleanliness, bismuth, salol, sodium bicarbonate, strychnia, pepsin, muriatic 

 acid, sunshine, washing. 



Causes. These are like those producing the acute affection 

 which may easily merge into this by a continuation of such 

 causes. 



The symptoms too are alike. Inappetence, dullness, prostra- 

 tion, arched back, vomiting, colic, constipation, with alternating 

 diarrhoea. There is hyperthermia with hot dry snout, thirst, 

 increasing emaciation and anaemia. 



Treatment. An entire change of diet, to green food, roots, 

 fresh milk, and soft mashes in limited quantity. Allow pure' 

 water freely. Adopt all precautions against contamination of 

 the food by the feet or snout. The stomach may be quieted by 

 oxide of bismuth (20 grs.) or salol (10 grs. ) two or three times 

 daily, and the tone and secretions of the stomach may be stimu- 

 lated by bicarbonate of soda ( 1 dr. ) and mux vomica ( 1 to 2 grs. ) 

 thrice daily. In addition pepsin and muriatic acid may be given 

 with each meal in proportion adapted to its amount. A life in 

 the open air, and an occasional soapy wash will do much to re- 

 store healthy gastric functions. 



CHRONIC GASTRITIS IN THE DOG. 



Causes : faults in diet, musty food, foreign bodies, poisons, lack of sun- 

 shine, retained faeces, parasites, ill health, chronic diseases, icy bath, septic, 

 drink. Symptoms : irregular appetite and bowels, fever, foul breath, red 

 tongue, tartar on teeth, dullness, prostration, vomiting of mucus or bile, 

 tender epigastrium, arched back, foetid stools, emaciation. Treatment : 

 regular diet, sunshine, pure water, scraped muscle, soups without fats, anti- 

 septics, calomel, pepsin, muriatic acid, strychnia. 



Causes. The irregularity and variability of the food, over-feed- 

 ing, highly spiced foods, putrid or spoiled food, musty food, the 

 swallowing of pieces of bone, and of indigestible bodies, the con- 

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