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Symptoms. The disease may begin insidiously without at first 

 very marked symptoms. Sucking is painful and infrequent, an 

 acid froth collects about the mouth, and white patches appear on 

 the gums or other part of the buccal mucosa, with at times red- 

 ness and swelling, and the separation of the gums from the teeth. 

 The white epithelial patches soften and are easily detached, leav- 

 ing bright red patches, which bleed easily, and tend to extension 

 and coalescence. These are covered by a viscid mucopurulent 

 matter, and may become the seat of granulations, or they may 

 involve the subjacent tissues in ulceration causing evulsion of 

 the teeth, or necrosis of the jaw bone. The odor of the mouth is 

 fcetid. Prostration and emaciation set in, and often bear a ratio 

 'to the extension of the disease to the digestive and respiratory 

 organs. This is manifested by uneasy movements of the hind 

 feet, shaking of the tail, frequent lying down and rising, consti- 

 pation or diarrhoea : or by cough, snuffling breathing, swelling 

 of the submaxillary and pharyngeal glands, and hurried, op- 

 pressed breathing. The complication of vesicular and pustular 

 eruption has been noticed. Death may occur in eight or ten 

 days, or more commonly recovery ensues. 



Treatment must proceed on the same lines as in the calf. 

 Artificial feeding on gruels, with antiseptic washes for the mouth 

 at each meal are indicated. Chlorate of potash, chloride of lime, 

 borax, .sulphites and hyposulphites of soda, carbolic acid, and 

 the salts of iron afford an ample field for selection. For ulcers, 

 a pointed stick of nitrate of silver, or a solution of muriatic acid 

 in three times its volume of water, applied by means of a glass 

 rod or pledget of cotton will serve a good purpose. 



