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DISEASES OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



mouth disease. On the other hand, scab formation on the muzzle 

 is never observed in the latter disorder. Foul foot and ergotism 

 may be confused with mycotic stomatitis, but in neither is stomatitis 

 found. Calf diphtheria may suggest the disease but this usually 

 occurs in sucking calves, sometimes in those under a year, and 

 presents the appearance of cheesy patches in the mouth (due to B. 

 necrophorous) and is unaccompanied by swelling of the feet. 



Prevention and Treatment. — Animals should be removed from 

 pasture and fed in barns or yards with soft, liquid food, as gruels, 

 mashes, etc. Plenty of pure, clean water should be at the animal's 

 command and two tablespoonfuls of borax may be given in two 

 buckets of water in the morning. Also antiseptics may be given in 

 the food, as two drams of carbolic acid in a quart of bran mash once 

 daily.* Mohler also recommends four ounces of crude carbolic acid 

 mixed with twelve quarts of barrel salt for range cattle to lick as 

 they will. When the animals are gentle the usual remedies for 

 stomatitis are in order — as hydrogen dioxide with equal part of 

 water, or 2 per cent, solution of lysol, creolin, carbolic acid or 

 potassium permanganate applied by a swab several times daily. 



The skin lesions are treated by the application of antiseptic 

 solutions and the teats covered with carbolized vaseline. 



Stomatitis, Necrotic — Calf Diphtheria. — This is a disease 

 affecting usually sucking calves under six weeks but sometimes those 

 of eight to ten months or older and due to an anaerobic organism — 

 B. necrophorous — which also is the cause of foot rot, gangrenous 

 pox of the teats and diphtheria of the uterus and vagina of bovines. 

 It occurs enzootically and more often in winter. It is due to a local 

 inoculation from injury to the buccal membrane by the milk teeth 

 or through mechanical abrasions. The incubation period is three 

 to five days. 



Symptoms. — First the animal stops eating or sucking and slob- 



* The writer wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to Mohler's article in 

 " Disease of Cattle." 



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