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hea ings. When pigs are sick, if they will eat they will 

 take> medicine in their food ; but if they will not eat there 

 is scarcely any help for them. As aperients, cleansers, 

 and alternatives, sulphur, antimony, and madder, are the 

 grand specifics, and are truly useful. As cordials and 

 tonics, treacle and strong beer in warm wash, and good 

 peas and pollard. In the measles, give sulphur, etc., and 

 if the animal require it, cordials occasionally. In stag- 

 gers, bleeding, fresh air and nitre. In catarrh, a warm 

 bed, and warm cordial wash ; and the same in quinsy, or 

 inflammation of the glands in the throat. If external 

 suppuration appear likely, discharge the matter when ripe, 

 and dress with tar and brandy or balsam. The heavings 

 or unsoundness of the lungs in pigs, like the unsoundness 

 of the liver in lambs, is sometimes found to be hereditary ; 

 there is then no remedy. This disease in pigs is often the 

 consequence of cold from wet lodging, or of a hasty feed- 

 ing in a poor state ; in a certain state it is highly inflam- 

 matory, and without remedy. Unction with train oil, and 

 the internal use of it, have been thought beneficial. Salt, 

 nitre, and sulphur, occasionally given in the food of swine, 

 will be found a good preventive of diseases in these use- 

 ful animals. 



MEASLES. 

 Occasional doses of sulphur, and lighter food. 



KIDNEY WORMS. 



We sometimes have a hog or hogs become weak in the 

 loins, and finally drop their hind-parts without being able 

 to raise them again, which, when they move, are dragged 

 along. This, in ninety-nine cases out of one hundred, is 

 produced by what are called kianey worms. To prevent 

 this, or to effect a cure after a hog has. as we say 



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