984 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



once ; but beware of quacks who go about doctoring hogs with so-called 

 specifics ; they are a dehision and a snare for the unwary. 



II. Malignant Epizootic Catarrh. 



Causes. — This disease, if not actually generated in filthy yards and 

 pens, is quickly and fatally developed in such places, and the poison 

 germs quickly find their way to the mucous membranes of the animals. 

 Anything that suddenly checks the insensible perspiration, as a cold, will 

 quickly predispose to the disease „ 



How to know it.— There will be difficulty in breathing ; panting ; lift- 

 ing of the flanks, and a short hoarse cough. There is fever; the head 

 will be stretched out and drooping ; sometimes running at the nose ; 

 efforts to vomit; generally constipation, but sometimes diarrhoea; and 

 the annual will show a stiff tottering gait. After death, if the animal is 

 opened, there will be found inflammation of the nasal passages of the 

 upper part of the throat, and of the windpipe and lungs, which latter 

 will be found more or less solidified. 



A second form of the disease shows less cough ; less difficulty in 

 b: eathing, but decided paralysis, and tottering in the gait ; there is con- 

 ivtipation, followed by profuse and foetid diarrhoea ; the back arched ; 

 partial or total blmdness ; enlarged glands and scrofulous ulcers. After 

 death the lining membrane of the intestines will be enlarged and degen- 

 erated ; the spleen enlarged, soft and dark ; the liver is also affected, and 

 there may be water exudations in the chest and belly. The duration of 

 either form will be about fifteen days. 



What to do. — If the disease shows clearly the symptoms described, kill 

 the animal and bury it deep. Separate all animals showing the slightest 

 ailment, and give the following emetic : 



No. 1. 15 to 20 Grains, powdered white hellebore 



}4 Pint milV' 



Mix and let the animal drink it, if it will; if not, turn it down with a 

 horn, as described under Article VIII, in this chapter. When the dose 

 has vomited the animal, if the symptoms are as first described or in the 

 lungs, give 



No. 2. 2 or 3 Grains tartar emetic. 



If the symptoms are as described in one second form of the disease, or 

 if the bowels are implicated rather than the lungs, give, instead, the 

 following : 



No. 3. 2 or 3 Grains calomel. 



Either dose may be administered in the half of a roasted potato if the 

 animal will eat. If not, envelop the dose in lard and place it well back 



