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tions, which occur in different parts of the body. The best 

 and most recent memoir on the subject was published 

 in the "Magazin fur die gesammte Theirheilkunde " for 

 1862, by Mr C. Schmidt, veterinary surgeon in Jesberg- 

 Kurhessen. Schmidt does not look upon the disease as 

 anthrax. He agrees with Falke and others in regarding 

 it as typhus. On this subject there are differences of 

 opinion. 



Symptoms. The death of one or more pigs under mys- 

 terious circumstances, directs the attention of persons to 

 the health of the stock, and .though the premonitory signs 

 occur rarely and late, some pigs are noticed to be dull, not 

 to seek for food or water, to creep beneath the straw, or in 

 any dark place, and their head is held low, and ears are 

 drooping. Signs of abdominal pain are often well marked, 

 and, as a rule, there is a disposition to lie on the belly. In 

 some instances there is much cerebral irritation, and in 

 others stupor. The animals are either wild, frantic, or quite 

 unconscious. The retching is occasionally violent, and food 

 may be vomited, or mucus and bile. 



In the early stage the faeces are of normal consistence, and 

 urine pale. Slight diarrhoea sets in, and the excrement is 

 then dark and fetid. The pulse rises to 100 or 120 per 

 minute, and the heart-beats are barely perceptible. The 

 staring look, tendency to press on the abdominal organs, 

 rolling about, inability to stand, &c., are indicative of in- 

 creasing pain. There is a singular jerking or spasmodic 

 breathing in all the cases, complicated by congestion of the 

 lungs. There is marked weakness of the hind quarters from 

 the commencement of the attack. The animal staggers, its 

 limbs cross each other, and at last are paralysed and cannot 

 move. It is then found that the animal cannot scream, and 

 there is a subdued hacking cough. The blood does not flow 



