22 Veterinary Medicine. 



ointments and the local action of fungi and bacteria are factors in 

 different cases. 



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. 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 dis- 

 ease may be confined to the lips, gums or tongue. 



Treatment. Beside the general astringent washes, this af- 

 fection is greatly benefited by the local use of antiseptics, as sul- 

 phite 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 laxatives are 

 often useful to remove sources of irritation in stomach and intes- 

 tines, and iron salts (chloride or nitrate) in full and frequently 

 repeated doses may be given internally. Ulcers may be cauter- 

 ized and soft food and pure water given from an elevated manger. 



UI.CERATIVE 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 le.ss rodent ulcers of the sub-epithelial 

 mucosa. I^ike other ulcerative proces,ses 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. 



