In necrotic stomatitis (calf diphtheria) there is a formation of yellowish cheesy patches in the mouth without any lesions of the feet or udder. It affects sucking calves chiefly, and is caused by the Bacillus necrophorus.
TREATMENT.
The treatment of mycotic stomatitis should consist in first removing the herd of cattle from the pasture in which they have been running. The affected animals should, if it is possible, be brought to the barn or corral and fed on soft, nutritious food, such as bran mashes, ground feed, and gruels. A bucket of clear, cool water should be kept constantly in the manger, so that the animal may drink or rinse the mouth at its pleasure; and it will be found beneficial to dissolve 2 heaping tablespoonfuls of borax or 1 tablespoonful of potassium chlorate in each of the first two buckets of water taken during the day. If the animals are gentle enough to be handled, the mouth should be swabbed out daily with antiseptic washes, such as a 2 per cent solution of carbolic acid or a 1 per cent solution of compound solution of cresol or of permanganate of potassium, or 1 part of hydrogen peroxid to 2 parts of water. This should be followed by astringents, such as one-half tablespoonful of alum, borax, or chlorate of potassium placed on the tongue. Probably a more satisfactory method of administering the antiseptic treatment to a large number of animals would be to mix thoroughly 2 teaspoonfuls of pure carbolic acid every morning in a quart of bran mash and give to each affected animal for a period of five days. Range cattle may be more readily treated by the use of medicated salt placed in troughs accessible to the animals. This salt may be prepared by pouring 4 ounces of crude carbolic acid upon 12 quarts of ordinary barrel salt, after which they are thoroughly mixed. The lesions of the feet should be treated with a 2 per cent solution of carbolic acid, while the fissures and other lesions of the skin will be benefited by the application of carbolized vaseline or zinc ointment. If the animals are treated in this manner and carefully fed, the disease will rapidly disappear.
INDEX.
| Abdomen— | Page. |
| dropsy affecting, causes, symptoms, and treatment | [47] |
| inflammation, causes, symptoms, and treatment | [224] |
| of calf, dropsy, description, and treatment | [180] |
| wounds, causes, symptoms, and treatment | [43] |
| Abdominal cavity, kinds of parasites affecting | [529] |
| Abortion— | |
| contagious— | |
| description and causes | [165] |
| treatment and prevention | [170] |
| noncontagious— | |
| causes | [165] |
| treatment | [170] |
| Abscess— | |
| bacteria causing | [237] |
| ear treatment | [355] |
| lung, description | [99] |
| navel, cause and treatment | [249] |
| orbital and periorbital, symptoms and treatment | [352] |
| Abscesses— | |
| danger in castration of cattle | [300] |
| treatment | [295] |
| Absorbents, description | [75] |
| Achorion schonleinii, fungus causing Tinea favosa | [332] |
| Acids— | |
| mineral, poisoning, description and treatment | [54] |
| poisoning, description and treatment | [54] |
| vegetable, poisonous, description and treatment | [61] |
| Aconite poisoning, description and treatment | [63] |
| Actinomycosis— | |
| description and symptoms | [440]–[449] |
| jawbone, description and treatment | [442] |
| lungs | [442] |
| prevention and treatment | [445]–[446] |
| relation to public health | [447] |
| Adenoma, description | [310] |
| Administration of medicines, chapter by Leonard Pearson | [7]–[11] |
| Afterbirth, retention, causes, symptoms, and treatment | [220] |
| Air tubes, lung, parasites affecting, description and treatment | [530] |
| Air under the skin, description, symptoms, and treatment | [334] |
| Albumin, urine, description and treatment | [121] |
| Albuminuria, description and treatment | [121] |
| Alkalies, poisoning, description and treatment | [59] |
| Amaurosis, causes, symptoms, and treatment | [348] |
| Anaphrodisia, cause, prevention, and treatment | [149] |
| Anasarca of the skin, causes, symptoms, and treatment | [330] |
| Anesthesia, uses in operations | [289] |
| Aneurism, description | [85] |
| Angioma tumor, description | [310] |
| Animal Industry Bureau, experiments against hemorrhagic septicemia | [401] |
| Animal parasites of cattle, chapter by B. H. Ransom | [502]–[531] |
| Animal products, poisonous, description and treatment | [71] |
| Anthrax— | |
| cause, symptoms, treatment, etc. | [449]–[458] |
| human, description | [458] |
| serum, relation to blackleg | [458] |
| symptomatic, description, cause, treatment, etc. | [449]–[458] |
| treatment by use of serum | [455] |
| Aphtha, calf, description and treatment | [263] |
| Aphtha parasite (Saccharomyces albicans), cause | [263] |
| Aphthous fever. See Foot-and-mouth disease. | |
| Aphthous stomatitis, reference | [532] |
| Apoplexy— | |
| cerebral, description and treatment | [106] |
| parturient, description, symptoms, and treatment | [226] |
| Appetite— | |
| depraved, description, causes and treatment | [28] |
| Loss, symptom of foot-and-mouth disease | [383] |
| Aqueous humor of eye, description | [341] |
| Argentina, foot-and-mouth disease | [386] |
| Arsenic poisoning, description, symptoms, and treatment | [54] |
| Arsenical dips— | |
| for destroying cattle ticks | [488] |
| use against screw worms | [507] |
| Arsenical vapor, danger of inhalation in making cattle dip | [489] |
| Arteries— | |
| and veins, wounds, description and treatment | [83] |
| obstruction, description and treatment | [85] |
| Ascaris vitulorum, intestinal roundworm | |
| description and treatment | [524] |
| Ascites— | |
| causes, symptoms, and treatment | [47] |
| description and treatment | [180] |
| Asepsis in surgical operations | [289] |
| Aseptic periostitis, description and treatment | [266] |
| Asphyxia electrica, symptoms and treatment | [111] |
| Atkinson, V. T.— | |
| chapter on "Bones: Diseases and accidents" | [264]–[288] |
| chapter on "Poison and poisoning" | [51]–[70] |
| Atrophy, description | [81] |
| Auscultation, definition | [91] |
| Austria-Hungary, foot-and-mouth disease | [386] |
| Bacillus— | |
| cyanogenes, causing blue milk | [242] |
| tuberculosis, (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), (new terminology) causing tuberculosis | [407] |
| Back, sprain, causes and treatment | [270] |
| Bacteria— | |
| causing abscess | [237] |
| definition | [360] |
| Bacterium bovisepticum, causing hemorrhagic septicemia | [397] |
| Balkan countries, foot-and-mouth disease | [386] |
| Ball— | |
| eye, description | [340] |
| hair, in stomach, description | [29] |
| Balls, use in administering medicines | [8] |
| Bee stings, description and treatment | [71] |
| Beef measles, discussion and management | [529] |
| Belgium, foot-and-mouth disease | [386] |
| Benign tumors, description | [306] |
| Big jaw. See Actinomycosis. | |
| Black quarter. See Blackleg. | |
| Blackleg— | |
| description, cause and treatment | [459], [464] |
| serum, relation to anthrax | [458] |
| vaccine, note on distribution by Animal Industry Bureau | [463] |
| Bladder— | |
| eversion, description, and treatment | [218] |
| or rectum, full, as obstruction to parturition | [178] |
| palsy of neck, cause and treatment | [130] |
| paralysis, causes and treatment | [128] |
| rupture, symptoms | [218] |
| spasms, description and treatment | [128] |
| stone, symptoms and treatment | [142] |