TREATMENT OF CHOLERA 283 



Pulv. nux vomica 1 pound 



Pulv. ginger 1 



Pulv. sodium bicarbonate 1 



Pulv. fenugreek 3 pounds 



Give a teaspoonful to each 100 pounds of body weight once 

 a clay. 



Quarantine of Infected Premises. — In the practice of human 

 medicine it is always made the rule, when a contagious or catching 

 disease is present in a house, to place upon that house a placard 

 showing in large type the nature of the disease which is present, 

 and warning every one not a member of the household to keep off 

 the premises. This quarantine notice is kept posted until all 

 evidence of the disease has disappeared in this household and the 

 premises have been thoroughly disinfected. By such methods as 

 these the practitioners of human medicine have remarkably cut 

 down the spread of the contagious diseases among members of the 

 human race, and we now do not see one case of measles, small-pox, 

 scarlet fever, diphtheria, and other similar diseases where we for- 

 merly used to see dozens of them. The death-deaUng plagues 

 which used to sweep over the entire civihzed world are no longer 

 to be found in modern civilization, and many diseases which 

 were terrors of former days are now entirely driven from our 

 shores. 



This same method of handling contagious diseases in the lower 

 animals has been applied in the case of a few of the less widespread 

 diseases, and the results have been good. So far we have driven 

 several important contagious diseases from our country, notablj^ 

 foot, and, mouth disease and contagious pleuropneumonia. If we 

 are to really take up the matter of hog-cholera eradication in a 

 serious manner, it will be absolutely necessary that we establish 

 some system of quarantine regulation on the infected farms in 

 order that spread of the infection may be cut down to the very 

 lowest point. 



So widespread has cholera become that it is indeed a big 

 undertaking to attempt the establishment of a system of quaran- 

 tine which will be at once effective and, at the same time, not ruin 

 the swine industry of the country for several years. Yet bigger 

 tasks than this have been accomplished in the past, and what man 



