Causes: specific disease poisons; debility; rachitis; cancer; chronic
suppuration; irritation—mechanical, chemical, thermic, venomous, etc.
Symptoms: difficult, imperfect prehension and mastication, salivation,
bleeding, swollen, puffy epithelium, blisters, extending erosions,
deep or spreading. Duration. Treatment: correct constitutional fault,
tonics, soft, digestible food, antiseptics, mild caustics.
This is characterized by the formation of necrotic spots and patches of
the buccal epithelium, with desquamation, and the formation of more or
less rodent ulcers of the sub-epithelial mucosa. Like other ulcerative
processes it is usually due to microbic invasion, and in this way it may
supervene on other and simpler forms of stomatitis. It also varies in
its manifestations and nature according to the genus of animal, and the
specific microbe present.