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is affected, and is poisonous to both man and beast, producing what is 

 iinown as malignant pustule, if serum or blood or the flesh of the in- 

 fected animal comes in contact with any abrasion of the skin. 



Prevention. — Perhaps as good a preventive as any is prescription No. 

 12. But every animal infected had better be killed at once and buried 

 deeply, and covered with quick lime. 



VI. Summary of Treatment for Malignant Diseases. 



As a last word, however, we repeat: Do not waste time in doctoring 

 any but blooded hogs that are valuable enough to warrant perfect isola- 

 Nion and the necessary care in curing. The best precaution to take in all 

 the diseases named, and which go under the general name "hog cholera," 

 is disinfection, and the most thorough isolation of the sick from the 

 well. If the sanitary conditions of the hospital are not strictly attended 

 to, all other treatment is thrown awjiy ; and the attendants must 

 thoroughly disinfect themselves before going about other swine. In fact, 

 it is better that the attendants keep away from the well hogs altogether. 

 Hence our advice : Thoroughly isolate all swine upon the first indicatioui 

 of disease, and if it does not give way quickly to treatment, kill and bury 

 deeply at once. 



VTI. Rules for Disinfection. 



The rules we give for disinfection, will apply to any structure, includ- 

 ing barns, stables, sheds, and outhouses of every kind. Fumigants are 

 not always disinfectants, and simply deodorizing or destroying odors, is 

 not disinfection in any sense of the word. 



The disinfection of all barns, stables, sheds, or other places where ani- 

 mals having malignant or contagious diseases have been kept, should re- 

 ceive strict attention. Every part should be stopped tight, and flowers 

 of sulphur and wood tar, in the proportion of one pound of the former 

 to two quarts of the latter, mixed with tow, should be burned and allowed 

 to smoke thoroughh', until the whole building is thick with smoke. So 

 the hospital should be fumigated with the same, two or three times a 

 week, but not sufficiently to set the animals coughing. Every part of the 

 building should also be thoroughly washed with dilute carbolic acid, and 

 the clothing also wet with it. If pure carbolic acid is used for sprinkling 

 floors or washing walls, 100 parts of soft water may be added to one pint 

 of acid. The impure carbolic acid of gas works may be used undiluted. 

 All discharges should be treated with chloride of -^inc, dissolved in water, 

 in the proportion of one ounce to one or two gallons of water. The at- 

 tendants taking care of animals with malignant diseases should never 

 approach or handle the well ones. 



