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lin, salicylic acid, or salicylate of soda, may be applied directly 

 to the diseased mucous membrane. Tincture of chloride of iron 

 in water (1:2) is one of the best agents (James). Carbolic 

 acid I drachm in 6 oz. water, and i oz. alcohol has been used 

 .safely and with excellent results (I,englen). Like most other 

 antiseptics, however, this latter must be u.sed with caution as re- 

 gards the amount. No actively poisonous antiseptic is admissible. 

 The antiseptic should be swabbed over the whole interior of the 

 mouth after each meal. 



In case of deep gangrenous masses excision and antiseptics are 

 demanded. 



ULCERATIVE STOMATITIS IN LAMBS AND KIDS. 



Causes : Accessory, locality, youth, debility, unsuitable food, impure air, 

 parasitism, contagion. Bacteria. Symptoms : difficult sucking, frothing, 

 salivation, buccal redness and swelling, white, softened patches, suppura- 

 tion, granulation, fcetor, emaciation, debility, bowel symptoms, respiratory. 

 Duration. Treatment : Artificial feeding, antisepsis, disinfection, mild 

 caustics, etc. 



Causes. This has been noticed as an enzootic affection in 

 young and debilitated animals, while the mature and more robust 

 ones e.scape. Anaemic lambs, those that are fed on watery, in- 

 nutritious materials (potatoes, grains, wa.ste of sugar factories), 

 those kept in close confinement, indoors, and those that suffer 

 from di.stomatosis show the disease. Impure air, damp, dark 

 places and impure water have their influence. The di.sease is 

 manifestly contagious, but the infecting microbe has not been 

 demonstrated. It was formerly suppo.sed to be the oidium albi- 

 cans, the fungus of muguet, but Neumann demonstrated its ab- 

 sence, and though he found leptothrix buccalis, bacilli, spirochete 

 and micrococci he failed to show that any one of these in pure 

 culture would cause the disea.se. Rivolta charged it on bacterium 

 subtile agnorum and Berdt on the polydesmus exitiosus which ac- 

 cording to him the sheep contract from eating rape cake. The 

 withdrawal of the cake led to a rapid recovery. 



