30 On Diseases of Swine. 
from corrupted blood, arising from lying wet: through 
filthy rotten litter and want of meat.” My hogs lay dry, 
they are never in want of meat, and have fresh litter 
given to them when the pens are cleaned out: which 
they are usually three times a week. It should be ob- 
served that my largest or oldest hogs have never been 
attacked by this disorder: it is confined to those of 
middle size, say pigs from eight to ten or eleven 
months old. 
In the fall of 1807, a disorder broke out among the 
larger hogs; it was not confined to my pens alone, but 
it was an epidemic which raged among the swine 
throughout this part of the country, and it progressed so 
rapidly among mine, that [expected at one time to have 
lost nearly the whole of them: the people in the neigh- 
bourhood called the disorder the sore throat.—A hog 
would come up to the trough, eat, apparently in good 
health, and in ten minutes after, be dead: and those 
which were attacked were the finest hogs in the pen: 
their food was good and they had plenty of running wa- 
ter to wallow in, (a thing absolutely necessary in the 
summer season,)—I had several of them opened, but 
did not discover any particular cause for such a sudden 
exit, except a trifling swelling in the wind pipe and black 
pustules on the tongue.—A friend and neighbour sent 
me a late volume of the Museum Rusticum and of the | 
Farmers Magazine; in the latter, vol. 3, page 105, I 
found the disorder tolerably well described as far as to 
appearance in the hogs I opened: but they call it measles, 
which I am certain was not the disorder; as I found 
however my old medicine for the sore throat :—bdleeding 
and nitre :—and a diet of sweet milk, had no good effect, 
