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If it falls more upon the throat, ivindpipe and lungs } 

 then, the ears swell, with swelling along the neck ; or 

 the entire neck swells ; or a hot painful swelling ap- 

 pears along the throat or windpipe which may even 

 extend down to the fore-legs and along the belly ; 

 there is also difficult breathing with much heaving of 

 'the flanks which when extreme is called *' thumps; r 

 with a wheezy, laborious cough, attended with evident 

 pain, with froth from the mouth and the squeal and 

 grunting is hoarse ; a reddish bloody matter flows 

 from the nose, and the dung is dry and pasty ; in 

 white hogs, red, (Erysipelas) patches, appear about 

 the neck and breast, with swelling ; at first the patches 

 are blood red running together,and later they become 

 blueish, or if the case becomes fatal, a blueish black 

 color : In some cases small blisters or pustules appear 

 along the edges of the lips, mouth and tongue, which 

 are rilled with gangrenous corrosive fluid, and later 

 these become of a purple lead or grey color. The 

 hog in attempting to run, sways about or totters and 

 the hind legs give out, so that he sits upon his haun- 

 ches like a dog, and later the fore legs give out also. 

 If started up, he runs off with a squeal resting on his 

 hind legs with his nose to the ground. 



When the morbid process localizes itself more upon 

 the kidney and the lining membrane of the bowels, 

 the back soon becomes arched, the animal is drawn up 

 with evident pain, and the belly becomes very tender; 

 there is at first only very scanty wax like or dry dung, 

 or none at all, followed in the more advanced or 



