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entire prostration. A pig thus far gone, is hardly worth the 

 trouble of recovering, even where practicable. Preventives 

 are general thrift, a range, in a good pasture, and a dose of 

 half a pint of wood ashes every week or fortnight in their 

 food. A small quantity of salt petre, spirits of turpentine, or 

 tar will affect the same object. When attacked, apply spirits 

 of turpentine to the loins, and administer calomel carefully ; 

 or give half a table spoonful of copperas daily for one or two 

 weeks. 



BLIND STAGGERS, generally confined to pigs, manifests 

 itself in foaming at the mouth, rearing on their hind legs, 

 champing and grinding their teeth and apparent blindness. 

 The proper remedies are bleeding and purging freely, and 

 these frequently fail. Many nostrums have been suggested, 

 but few are of any utility. It is important to keep the issues 

 on the inside of the fore legs, just below the knee, thoroughly 

 cleansed. The most convenient mode of bleeding, is from an 

 artery just above the knee, on the inside of the fore-arm. 

 It may be drawn more copiously from the roof of the mouth. 

 The flow of blood may usually be stopped, by applying a sponge 

 or cloth with cold water. 



The diseases of swine, though not numerous, are formida- 

 ble, and many of them soon become fatal. They have not 

 been the subject of particlar scientific study, and most of the 

 remedies applied, are rather the result of casual or hap-hazard 

 suggestion, than of well-digested inference, from long contin- 

 ued and accurate observation. 



