On Diseases of Swine. 29 
I believe might be called the staggers, it attacked them 
generally in the month of September: the hog would 
all at once turn round very rapidly, and if assistance was 
not at hand, would in less than half an hour, die. It 
seldom happened that one alone was attacked, six, eight, 
ora dozen would be seized in the same way in the 
course of a few hours: they were immediately bled 
under the ear and at the tail; some sweet milk and brim- 
stone were given to them; and on which they were af- 
terwards fed till they were well, or died; a few reco- 
vered, but a greater number died; this however was 
the only remedy that I knew of, until the year 1803, 
when a young man who had lately arrived from Wales 
and who was then working#in my still house, put into 
my hands an old pamphlet, the title page of which was 
nearly torn off, but it was printed, I think, in the year 
1706 or 1707, and was composed of receipts for the 
cure of animals; there was described a malady among 
hogs, which I was satisfied was the same as my swine 
were attacked with and the cure pointed out was as fol- 
lows. ‘* You will see a bare knob in the roof of the 
mouth, cut it and let it bleed, take the powder of loam 
and salt, rub it with it, and then give him a little piss 
and he will mend.” (I give it you in the authors owa 
language.) Every year my pens were more or less sub- 
ject to this disorder; and since it came to my knowledge 
I have invaribly followed this prescription, with certain 
success, for where I used to lose six I do not now lose 
more than one: but although the pigs recover they 
never thrive so well after such an attack. The causes 
which this author gives for the disorder, I cannot apply 
to my pens, he says, “the staggers, in hogs proceeds 
