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PART IV. 



DISEASES OF THE HOG- 



Hog Cholera. 



A peculiar and very destructive disease, popularly 

 known as HOG CHOLERA has from time to time ap- 

 peared in all the great pork raising sections of the 

 United States during the last few years. Its ravages 

 have been so extensive, and the destruction of swine 

 have been so great, that not only have individual 

 veterinary men given much time and attention to 

 its investigation and treatment, but the Legislatures 

 of several States have also designated committees 

 to report upon it with a view to its possible arrest. 

 From these authorized statements and investigations 

 as well as from private information we are enabled 

 to form a very clear idea of the several forms of the 

 disease, and of their proper method of treatment. 



The name HOG CHOLERA is not well chosen, as it 

 conveys an erroneous impression of the disease, which 

 has little or nothing of the nature of Cholera about 

 it except, perhaps its epizootic character. 



It is essentially an u Anthrax " disease, with tend- 

 ency to rapid decomposition of blood, and disorgan- 

 ization of tissue, and in whatever form it may be 



