636 DISEASES OF SWINE 



Treatment. — The condition is usually due to neglect or care- 

 lessness in handling animals, and can be prevented quite easily with 

 the use of a little common sense. Great care should be used in 

 handling hogs, and especially fat animals, during the heat of the 

 day. If serum is to be given or the animals moved to market the 

 injection should be made in the early morning before the sun gets 

 high. 



During hot weather the animals should be kept in a pasture 

 that is shaded, so they may find protection from the direct rays 

 of the sun. A cool, sanitary hog-wallow is a source of great com- 

 fort to the animals during the hot weather. 



When an animal is seen in an attack prompt measures are neces- 

 sary if life is to be saved. Cold water should be poured over the 

 head, hut not on the balance of the body. If cold water be thrown 

 over the entire body it makes the condition worse, and will almost 

 certainly produce death. Cold applied to the head is the most 

 convenient and effective measure at hand. The animal is also in 

 need of stimulation, and if any whisky is handy it should be given 

 in tablespoonful doses every hour or two. If possible, it is better to 

 inject the drug into the loose tissues beneath the skin back of the 

 foreleg or along the flank. Strychnin is also a valuable agent in 

 these cases, and I gr. of the drug or 15 drops of tincture of nux 

 vomica may be given with the whisky. Aromatic spirits of am- 

 monia, camphorated oil, and ether are all valuable diffusible 

 stimulants, and should be administered per mouth or injected un- 

 der the skin, if at hand. 



