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formed on the summits of the folds. They may vary in size 

 from a pea to a quarter of a dollar. The surrounding mucosa is 

 usually congested, swollen, and projecting, and the surface of 

 the ulcer itself of a dark red, black, yellowish, slaty or gray. 



The round ulcer is usually marked by surrounding infiltration 

 and by a tendency to become deeper and to perforate the gastric 

 walls, with the result of inducing an infective peritonitis. This 

 is more common in cattle and carnivora than in solipeds. 



Treatment. If a reasonably certain diagnosis can be made the 

 patient should be put on a restricted diet of easily digested ma- 

 terials, given at regular intervals. For the carnivora scraped 

 or pulped raw meat, and milk, and for the herbivora milk and 

 well boiled flax seed or other farina are appropriate. 



Violent emesis in carnivora may demand washing out of the 

 stomach with tepid water with or without the aid of a stomach 

 tube. This may be seconded by anodynes, chloral, cyanide of 

 potassium, or even morphia. 



Bismuth trisintrate or oxide is appropriate in all animals, also 

 sodium bicarbonate, chalk or magnesia to neutralize the muriatic 

 acid. 



As antiseptics calculated to obviate the formation of irritant 

 products from the gastric contents and to check the progress of 

 the microbian infection in the wound such agents as the following 

 may be used : Salol (horse or ox r dr., dog 5 grs.), naphthol or 

 naphthalin (same doses), chloral (horse 2 drs., dog 5 grs.). 



Sometimes it is well to relax the bowels by small doses of 

 Glauber salts, and in all cases an abundance of fresh water, butter 

 milk, or other bland drink. 



Cases of the kind are slow in their progress and unless the 

 animal is specially valuable, treatment may be a source of loss. 



