METHODS OF USING ANTI-HOG-CHOLEfcA SERUM 133 



istered ; and in case deviation from the dose table 

 seems desirable, a quantity unnecessarily large is 

 preferable to one dangerously small. 



Therapeutic value of serum alone. Serum is 

 employed almost entirely as a preventive of hog 

 cholera, but it possesses some therapeutic value 

 when used in generous doses early in the course 

 of the disease. Herein lies the reason for in- 

 creased doses in badly infected herds many ani- 

 mals apparently well are really in the first stages 

 of hog cholera. Ordinarily we do not regard 

 treating hogs visibly sick with cholera as a profit- 

 able venture, but when the disease appears in mild 

 form, or when the animals are adults or of excep- 

 tional value, we are more than repaid for our 

 efforts to save them. Double doses of serum are 

 recommended under such circumstances, and or- 

 dinary doses may follow at intervals of from three 

 to seven days, as the condition of the animal re- 

 quires. 



Good nursing as an adjunct to serum treatment 

 is of the utmost value. A plentiful supply of fresh 

 water should be furnished, to which may be added 

 a saline purgative when there is constipation. 

 The diet should be severely restricted, and under 

 no circumstances should unconsumed food be kept 

 before the animal. Warm milk alone is an excel- 

 lent diet for hogs suffering with cholera. 



Dangers and after-effects of serum alone im- 



