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TREATMENT. Intestinal antiseptics in the form of 

 dilute solutions of cupric sulphate or sulphocarbolates are 

 most desirable. The food of the dam should contain little 

 nitrogenous material while corn and tankage should be with- 

 held. The feeding of buttermilk to the affected pigs is bene- 

 ficial. Two to three injections of Pig Scour Bacterins at 

 daily intervals is followed by cessation of the diarrhoea and 

 recovery of many animals, particularly where tissue destruc- 

 tion has not been extensive. 



PREVENTION. All exposed animals should receive two 

 or three injections of Pig Scour bacterins at intervals of 

 three to five days and their ration should be augmented by 

 the addition of buttermilk. 



Suppurative Conditions of Horses 

 and Cattle 



No class of pathological conditions has proven more 

 responsive to biological therapy than the numerous sup- 

 purative conditions and septicemic diseases which are so 

 common in the bovine and equine and which are caused by 

 pyogenic bacteria. The organisms most generally con- 

 cerned in these local suppurative or generalized septicemic 

 diseases are the pyogenic streptococci, staphylococci and B. 

 coli, which are so widely distributed in nature and which so 

 readily gain access to wounds, abrasions of the skin or 

 which cause septicemias as a secondary condition following 

 some other primary invasion. The activity of these organ- 

 isms is responsible for a long list of localized suppurative 

 conditions and generalized septicemias among which may be 

 mentioned fistulous witliers, quittor, poll evil, abscesses, sup- 

 purative nail wounds, wire cuts, open joints, navel-ill, septic 

 arthritis and dermatitis following eczema or mange. 



TREATMENT. The value of bacterins in the treatment 

 of these conditions is too fully appreciated to require com- 

 ment. For this purpose the so-called Strep-Staph-Coli bac- 

 terin containing organisms isolated from suppurative 

 conditions is most capable of accomplishing the desired 

 results. It must not be forgotten, however, that bacterins 

 should not be used to the exclusion of surgical methods 

 when these are advisable. Good drainage of suppurative 

 areas should always be established before a bacterin is 

 used. Bacterin should be administered subcutaneously in 

 doses of two c.c. and should be repeated each five to seven 



