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aggravated by the owner, on seeing this symptom, pouring into it large 

 doses of relaxing purgatives, which only hurry it on to dissolution. 



466. Treatment : The treatment I recommend, as soon as the 

 animal is observed to be affected, is to give it from 14 oz. to 20 oz. of 

 common salt in two quarts of gruel, and then to place in front of the 

 patient a large pailful of hay-tea or bran-tea, or cold water and milk 

 in which from two to three ozs. of hyposulphite or bicarbonate of soda 

 is dissolved. This must be renewed as soon as the patient drinks it. 

 It should be followed by 10 oz. doses of linseed oil, to which is added 

 one oz. sweet spirits of nitre and one oz. balsam copaiba, and this 

 should be repeated every twelve hours, if necessary. Should the 

 bowels not respond, small doses of salts — from three to five ozs. — may 

 be given along with warm cordials, such as one oz. each of ginger, 

 gentian, sweet pepper, mustard, &c., in a quart of warmed ale, or in 

 gruel containing 1 pint of whisky, every six or eight hours. I have 

 found this treatment to be very beneficial. 



467. Prevention consists m first draining the land, and then dressing 

 the particular grazing pastures affected, every fourth or fifth year, with 

 10 cwt. of rough crushed rock salt to the acre, while large lumps of rock 

 salt should be scattered over the pastures for the animals to lick. 

 Liming, also, has a good effect on some land, but in my experience, 

 salt is much better, and lands on which, in former years, the disease 

 was intensely rife, have, I am aware, by the application of salt, now 

 been entirely cleared of it. 



468. Swine Fever, Red Soldier, or Blue Sickness — Measles. 



— This disease is of a highly infectious and contagious typhoid 

 character ; it is rapidly spread by contact and cohabitation, and by 

 putting healthy pigs into a box, hull, or place from which diseased 

 animals have been taken, and which have not been properly dis- 

 infected. After exposure to infection, the malady has a period 

 of incubation, varying from five to seven days. The post-mortem 

 reveals that the organs principally affected are the large (caecum, in 

 particular) and small intestines, and the stomach, the lining membrane 



