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Title: Diseases of the dog and their treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Müller, Georg Alfred, 1851-1923 Glass, Alexander
Subjects: Horses Dogs -- Diseases
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Alexander Eger
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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Fig. 5.—Mouth speculum. under the jaw and lifting it; this cannot be done in cases of luxation ofthe articulation or where there is some foreign body between the teeth,such as bones or pieces of wood. The mouth cannot be opened com-pletely in trismus (tetanus) or in partial anchylosis of the articulation; the
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Mjig^ Fig. 6.—Gag. introduction of the speculum being very painful in some cases of tooth-ache. In injuries of the various masticating muscles, disease of the ar-ticulation of the jaw and infectious hemorrhagic gastro-enteritis. If thespeculum iy introduced frequently, the mouth may remain partially open. EXAMINATION OF THE DIGESTIVE APPARATUS 15 On opening the mouth, if there is a very offensive odor coming from it, itindicates either an ulceration of the mouth, due to ulcerative stomatitis,which has erroneously been called scurvy, disease of the teeth and in cer-tain diseases of the stomach, in dyspepsia, foetid bronchitis, or in gan-grene of the lungs; it is frequently noticed in animals which are very sick,where the mouth is filled with unhealthy mucus or where particles offood lie in the mouth or throat. In infectious hemorrhagic gastro-enteritis, a very offensive odor is noticed. In cases of poisoning, byphosphorus, or prussic acid, the odor of the drug is frequently detected

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