ANATOMY OF THE HOG. 105 



present advancing state of veterinary science, has conferred upon 

 other domesticated animals. When any thing goes wrong in the 

 piggery, the farmer too often, instead of exercising that shrewd sense 

 which he turns to so good an account in almost every other instance, 

 either sends for the butcher, or consigns the sick tenants of the sty 

 to the care of an ignorant " pig-doctor," whose whole pretensions 

 to leech-craft rest on the possession of some antiquated recipe, which 

 he uses indiscriminately as a grand panacea for " all the ills swine's 

 flesh is heir to," or on the traditionary lore he inherits from some 

 ancestor famous in his day for certain real or supposed wondrous 

 cures. The treatment adopted in such a case is usually of a very 

 summary nature : a drench is administered, the principal ingredi- 

 ents of which consist in whatever abominations happen to come to 

 hand first when this learned practitioner is summoned. The un- 

 lucky patient's tail is next cut off, or he is bled " between the 

 claws," and the " doctor," after some learned clinical remarks to the 

 bystanders, swallows the customary mug of beer, and leaves his 

 patient to contend with his disease and the remedy, one or the other 

 of which in most cases speedily brings the matter to a conclusion, 

 unless, with all the obstinacy inherent in a pig's nature, he lives on 

 in spite of both. 



SKELETON OP THE PIG. 



THE HEAD. 



A Maxilla interior, vel posterior lower D. Maxilla superior, -vcl anterior upper jaw 



jaw. E. Os frontis the frontal bone. 



B. Dnte the teeth. F. Orbiculus the orbit or socket of the eya. 



t. 0*ta na the nasal bone* 6. Oi occipiti* the occipital boc 



