Diseases of Swine. 



CHAPTER I. 



MALIGNANT AND EPIDEMIC DISEASES. 



'. THE PREVENTION OK DISEASE. II. MALIGNANT EPIZOOTIC CATARRH. III 



CONTAGIOUS FEVEH OP SWINE. IV. CONTAGIOUS PNEUMO-ENTERITIS. V. 



SPLENIC FEVER, OR MALIGNANT ANTHRAX. VI. SUMMARY OF TREATMENT FOR 



MALIGNANT DISEASES. VII. RULES FOR DISINFECTION. VIII. DIFFICULTY 



IN GIVING MEDICINE TO SWINE. IX. WATCH SYMPTOMS EARLY, AND USE 



PREVENTIVES. 



I. The Prevention of Diseases. 



In the care of swine the prevention of disease is of the ntraost impoi-t- 

 ance. They are, indeed, subject to comparatively few aihnents ; but 

 these few are, generally, in the shape of malignant, epidemic or contcV 

 gious diseases of the most serious kind. In such cases the difficulty iij 

 administering medicine (they being too sick to take it with food) is very 

 great. To prevent disease in swine, the most important thing is so to 

 care for the animals that they shall be kept in general good health. The 

 admission of other swine among the herd should, also, be prohibited until 

 you are well assured that the new comers are free from disease. The 

 herd should be perfectly isolated during the prevalence of epidemic or 

 contagious diseases, and disinfectants should be freely used ; when once 

 serious disease makes its appearance in the herd, the sick animals should 

 be carefully separated from the well o;.es. There is only one economical 

 way to treat so-called hog cholera, which may appear in any of the follow- 

 ing forms, viz : malignant epizootic catarrh ; intestinal "hog cholera," a 

 specific contagious fever, attended by congestion, exudation, blood ex- 

 travasation, ulceration of the membranes of the stomach and bowels, and 

 foetid discharges ; contagious pneumo-enteritis or purples, a contagious 

 inflammation of the stomach and bowels, with red or purple blotches of tbe 

 skin ; or the erysipelatous form of pneumo-enteritis, or that attended 

 with malignant sore throat. When either of these forms of disease at- 

 tacks swine, the cheapest way to treat it is to send the animals at once to 

 the rendering tanks, and convert them into "grease," or kill and burv 

 them at once, and thoroughly disinfect every possible place where con- 

 tagion may lurk. If a competent veterinarian be near, apply to him at 



