10 BULLETIN 662, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
nodules and pustules is chiefly on the lips, gums, inside of the cheek, 
and on the tip and sides of the tongue. While the disease may be 
transmitted artificially to cattle, sheep, and hogs it occurs under 
natural conditions only among equines. 
TREATMENT 
The treatment of vesicular stomatitis consists in first removing the 
affected from the healthy animals and isolating the former until fully 
recovered. Such isolation, together with the adoption of rigid sani- 
tary precautions, oreatly reduces the prevalence of the disease. 
Medicinal treatment or undue handling of the affected parts should 
not be attempted until after the true nature of the disease has been 
determined, as the lesions may be so mutilated as to make diagnosis 
difficult. If it is found that the animals are affected with vesicular 
stomatitis and they are gentle enough to be handled, one-half table- 
spoonful of borax should be placed on the tongue twice daily, or the 
mouth syringed several times a day with a 1 per cent solution of per- 
manganate of potassium; otherwise 2 heaping tablespoonfuls of 
borax or 1 tablespoonful of potassium chlorate should be dissolved - 
in a bucket of water and the affected animals allowed to drink or 
rinse their mouths with this medicated water at their pleasure. 
Hay should not be fed for the first few days, but instead bran or 
other soft feed should be given. If the animals are treated in this 
manner and carefully fed, the disease should rapidly disappear. 
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