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TREATMENT. In the fulminating type of the disease 

 treatment is impossible due to the rapidity with which death 

 occurs. In the less acute type medicinal treatment is of no 

 value, and the best hope for successful treatment lies in the 

 use of Anti-Hemorrhagic Septicemia Serum or Hemorrhagic 

 Septicemia Bacterins. In this, as in all other diseases, serum 

 should be used in large, frequently repeated doses, and since 

 it confers an immunity of short duration the affected animals 

 should after recovery have their immunity strengthened by 

 the use of Hemorrhagic Septicemia Bacterin. The more 

 chronic types are best treated by frequently repeated sub- 

 cutaneous doses of Hemorrhagic Septicemia Bacterin. 



PREVENTION. Hemorrhagic Septicemia Bacterin has 

 given entirely satisfactory results for this purpose. For 

 most lasting immunity three injections of two c.c. each 

 should be administered at intervals of three to seven days. 



Anti-Hemorrhagic Septicemia Serum as a prophylactic 

 confers an immunity which is of too short duration to be 

 practical, however when this is used simultaneously with 

 Hemorrhagic Septicemia Vaccine an active immunity 

 results. Both should be administered subcutaneously — the 

 serum in doses of twenty to thirty c.c. and the vaccine in 

 two c.c. doses. 



Hemorrhagic Septicemia in Swine 



(Swine -Plague) 



An infectious disease of swine which usually occurs In 

 enzootic form but which may become epizootic and which 

 may result in an acute septicemia or a pleuro-pneumonia. 

 At one time it was erroneously believed that this disease 

 existed only in association with hog cholera. It is now 

 known that while this disease and hog cholera may co-exist 

 in the same animal, it may also exist as an entity and is 

 observed alike in cholera immune and cholera susceptible 

 swine. Our present attitude on this question is aptly sum- 

 marized in White's Principles and Practice of Veterinary 

 Medicine as follows: "Irrespective of these claims and the 

 denials of some authorities as to the existence of Hem- 

 orrhage Septicemia in swine, enough scientific evidence 

 seems at hand to warrant placing swine plague in a chapter 

 by itself and considering it a disease separate and distinct 

 from hog cholera." 



