46 SWINE DOCTOR. 



the cellular substance between the flesh and the skin, 



sufficiently marks the disease. 



Remedi/.—hesis food and not so stimulating, and oc- *^0t 

 casional doses of Epsom salts or sulphur. 



MANGE. 



Few domesticated animals are so subject to this loath- 

 some disease as the hog if he is neglected and kept 

 filthy; but in a well cleaned and well managed piggery 

 it is rarely or never seen, unless some, whose blood from 

 generation to generation has been tainted with it, should 

 be incautiously admitted. A mangy hog cannot pos- 

 sibly thrive well. His foul and scurfy hide will never 

 loosen so as to suffer the accumulation of flesh and fat 

 under it. 



Except it is hereditary, it may, although with .some 

 trouble, be perfectly eradicated. The first thing to be 

 done is to clean the hog well ; without this all ext'nnal 

 application and internal medicines will be thrown away. 

 The animal must be scrubbed all over with a g:ool1 strong 

 soap-lather, and when he is well dried with wisps of 

 straw he will be ready for the ointment, and no better 

 one can be used than the Mild Ointment for scab in 

 sheep. A little of this should be well rubbed all over 

 him every second or third day ; but at the same time 

 internal medicine should not be omitted. There is no 

 animal in which it is more necessary to attack this and 

 similar diseases with energv. 



RECIPE. 



Alterative Powder for Swine— Take, flowers of sul- 

 phm, a quarter of an ounce; TEihiop's mineral, three 

 grains ; rjitre, and cream of tartar, half a drachm. Mix 

 and give daily in a little thickened gruel or wash. 



This, like the scab in sheep, is a very infectious di.«?- 

 ease, and care should be taken to scour the sty well with 



