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 ea.sily 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 ansemia. 



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 ma3' 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 stimulated by 

 bicarbonate of soda (i dr.) and nux vomica (i 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 restore 

 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 : 

 regulate diet, sunshine, pure water, scraped muscle, soups without fat, 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 



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