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disclose. We must say that in tliis mtitrer we were not influeneecl by 

 a strict regard to the observance of a high-toned professional code of 

 medical ethics, but entirely from a sense of the proper discliai\ge of a 

 public duty. The sick herd of Mr. Quinn, previously alluded to, was 

 taken as one oifering a fair opportunity for treatment. The sick animals 

 were all in the formative stage of the disease, and surrounding circum- 

 stances seemed favorable to their cure. They were confined to proper 

 limits, in a pen well situated as to health and comfort, and were given 

 a dose of purgative medicine as a starting point, consisting of Glauber 

 salts. It was observed by all with whom we conversed that a larger per 

 cent, of recoveries occm-red from among those animals that at the com- 

 mencement of the disease had vomiting and diarrhea than from others. 

 The dry and hard condition of the fecal matter foimd in the animals dis- 

 sected leads to the belief that iDurgatives at the commencement of disease 

 would always be a judicious course. Bromide of ammonia was then 

 given in solution in doses of 30 grains every six hoiu's. This remedy we 

 tested at the suggestion of the Agricultural Department, at the instance 

 of a gentleman who insisted that inasmuch as it exerted a salutary effect 

 in the disease of cholera as affecting the liuman subject, it might prove 

 equally beneficial in such disease in swine. So it might, but we did not 

 find tiiat an analogous disease, and therefore the remedy having no 

 properties calcidated to meet the character of the disease that we did 

 find, proved of no practical benefit in its treatment, the animals dying 

 in about the same proportion as when not subjected to any plan of treat- 

 ment, but left entirely to themselves. Mr. Stadda's herd, in the same 

 county, was subjected to the same plan of treatment with the same re- 

 sults. The herd of Mr. Thomas, in Harrison county, was treated under 

 our direction by giving a mild purgative at the commencement of the 

 disease, and during the acute inflammatory state of the complaint ad- 

 mmistered antimonials as a sedative to the circulation, and in the sec- 

 ond stage tonics and nutritious food of milk, mill-feed, and vegetables, 

 but the per cent, of deaths remained much the same as when not treated. 

 Other isolated cases occurred under circumstances where extra care and 

 effort was made in trying to effect a cure by several difierent lines of 

 treatment, but candor compels the admission that as far as relates to the 

 discovery of any plan of treatment proving sufficiently efficient to enti- 

 tle it to respectable consideration, our efforts were without good residts. 

 And, lest our speculations and theories as to the proper line of treatment 

 may be wrong, and present further obstacles in the way of the discovery 

 of a successful remedy, we will refrain from giving them, preferring to 

 present such points only as we fully beUeve will be of practical value. 

 I remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



D. W. VOYLES, M. D. 

 New Albany, Ind., November 23, 1878. ,. i , . 



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EEPORT OF D. E. SALMON, V, S. ^ ^ ^ '^ >^ i T V 



Hon. William G. Le Due, ^ - W^/ 1^\ u » \' r 



Commissioner of Agriculture: ^^^=^=^==^ *''>]. 



Sm : In my investigations of the contagious hog-fever as it exists in 

 North Carolina, it has been my endeavor to decide those points which 

 it was indispensable for me to know before adopting preventive meas- 

 ures, rather than others which might be equally interesting from a scien- 

 tific standpoint. What is the percentage of ivss from swine disease in 



