988 CYCLOPEDIA OP LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



surrounding parts with equal parts of turpentine and sweet oil. Give at 

 once two ounces of castor oil, and when it operates, give the following 

 two or three times a day : 



No. 10. 20 Grains nitrate of soda, 



20 Grains nitrate of potash. 

 Mix in a little gruel. 



If the bowels are swollen and tender, give twenty drops of turpentine 

 in a little gruel, as may be needed, and let the ammal have pjwdered 

 charcoal in the water it drinks. 



Another valuable remedy is that of M. Lubin, to be given in gruel three 

 times a day, omitting the calomel after the third dose. It is as follows : 



No. 11. 5 Grains calomel, 



1 Drachm nitrate of potash, 

 10 Grains powdered camphor. 



This is a good dose for the swine not yet affected, and it may be used 

 in any of the preceding diseases, as a preventive. The following has 

 been found useful by Prof. J. B. Turner of Illinois. It will bo sufficient 

 for 100 hogs, the dose being one pint for each hog i 



No. 12. 2 Pounds flowers of sulphur, 



2 Pounds sulphate of iron, 

 2 Pounds madder. 



^ Pound black antimony, 

 }/^ Pound nitrate of potash, 

 2 Ounces arsenic. 



Mix the whole in twelve gallons of gruel for 100 swine, or give one- 

 pint doses to each. 



V. Splenic Fever or Malignant Antlirax. 



This disease is rare, and has even been asserted as not occurring in the 

 United States. Yet, since charbon or malignant anthrax of cattle may 

 be easily communicated to other animals and man, there is no reason why 

 swine should not become victims. 



The common form of Anthrax. — In pigs the most common form is a 

 carbuncular swelling of the throat, extending inwards to the windpipe and 

 gullet, causing difficulty in breathing and swallowing, and terminating in 

 convulsions and death by strangling. It has been popularly known as 

 white-bristle, from the peculiar appearance of the bristles about the parts. 

 The treatment should be similar to that advised for pneumo-enteritis 

 with malignant sore throat. (See article IV. ) 



The apoplectic or splenic form. — If this form of the disease should 

 appear, it will be known by malignant inflammation of the internal organs, 

 such as are noticed in bloody murrain in cattle. It is malignant blood 

 poisoning, and so virulent is the infection that every tissue of the animal 



