8 Veterinary Medicine. 



State) that it is just visible to the naked eye as a bright scarlet 

 point when moving on a dark background. It was formerly 

 called Leptus Autumnalis and is familiarly known as the red 

 beast, bete rouge, harvest bug, etc. The common American species 

 is of a dull brick red, so that it is less easily detected even on a 

 dark background. It is familiarly known as the Jigger, though 

 quite distinct from the chigoe or burrowing flea of the West Indies. 

 The domestic herbivora get these parasites on the nose and lips 

 while browsing on the pastures and contract an intolerable itching 

 which may lead to violent rubbing, abrasions and scabby exuda- 

 tions. The skin becomes thickened, scabby and rigid, and as new 

 accessions are constantly received the malady continues until cold 

 weather sets in. The affection is not in any sense dangerous, and 

 the attacks may be warded off by a daily application of one of the 

 common parasiticides — decoction of tobacco, tar water, solution 

 of creolin, naphthalin, etc. The mere seclusion of the infested 

 animal indoors, without green food, will cure, as the larvse pass 

 through their para.sitic stage in a few days and drop off. 



GENERAL CATARRHAI. STOMATITIS. BUCCAL 

 INFLAMMATION. 



Mature animals most subject : Causes iu horse, mechanical, chemical, 

 microbian irritants — alkalies, acids, caustics, hot mashes, ferments, 

 fungi, rank grasses, excess of chlorophyll, clover, alfalfa, acrid vege- 

 tables, bacterial infection secondary, acrid insects in food ; symptomatic 

 of gastritis, pharyngitis, diseased teeth, specific fevers. Symptoms : Con- 

 gestion and tumefaction of biiccal mucosa, lips and salivary glands ; Epi- 

 thelial desquamation; f oetor ; salivation; froth; papules; vesicles. Prog- 

 nosis. Treatment : Cool soft food ; antiseptics ; wet applications to skin ; 

 derivatives. 



This is much more common in the adult than in suckling 

 dome.stic animals. None of the domestic mammals or birds can 

 be considered immune from it, but as its causes and manifesta- 

 tions differ somewhat it seems well to consider it separately in the 

 different genera. 



