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first indicated ; setons and puncture of the swollen glands have also 

 been recommended, and in extreme cases there is no reason why we 

 should not have recourse to blisters and external stimulants as 

 counter-irritants. 



A diseased animal should never be allowed to remain aomng 

 healthy ones, as this malady is so infectious that it may almost be 

 regarded as an epizootic. 



Mr. Cartwright, veterinary surgeon, of Whitchurch, who has paid 

 much attention to the diseases of swine, gives the following account 

 of some fatal cases of inflammation of the glands of the throat in 

 the " Veterinarian :" He says that he had six pigs attacked at nearly 

 the same period. Their respiration was very quick ; they husked 

 and foamed at the mouth. They could not bear to be pressed on 

 the throat, and swallowed liquids with difficulty. To some of them 

 jalap was given, and to others castor and goose oil. One was blis- 

 tered under the throat, and all bled by cutting off their tails. They 

 died in the course of eight-and-forty hours from the commencement 

 of the disease. 



On examination he found much inflammation under the jaws and 

 throat, and also much of swelling with effused serum. In some of 

 their windpipes, and the branches of the bronchia, there was a great 

 quantity of mucus, but no apparent inflammation. In one the heart 

 appeared to be inflamed, but most probably sympathetically. 



Columella thus speaks of these diseases : " Such swine as have 

 swellings of the glands under the throat must be let blood under the 

 tongue ; and when it has flowed abundantly, it will be proper that 

 their whole mouth be rubbed over with bruised salt and wheat-meal. 

 Some think it a more present and effectual remedy when they pour 

 into each of them, through a horn, three cupfuls of garum, or salt- 

 fish pickle ; then they bind cloven tallies, or cuttings of fennel-giant 

 with a flaxen cord, and hang them about the necks, so that the swell- 

 ings shall be touched with the fennel-giant cuttings." 



If we may judge by the writings of the ancients, the most preva- 

 lent diseases among pigs were those of the glands of the throat. 

 Didymus gives a long and accurate description of them. 



Hurtrel D'Arboval also gives an account of a disease of the glands 

 of the throat, which he denominates Poll pique, maladie piquante, or 

 soie, and states it to be peculiar to swine : he thus describes it : 



It is situated on one or both sides of the neck, between the jugular 

 vein and the tracheal artery. On the part affected is seen a raised 

 tuft of hairs, differing from any of the others, being hard, rough, dull, 

 and discolored, and exceedingly painful to the touch; and if one be 

 pulled out the skin comes away with it. At first there is only a 

 slight depression or concavity of the part ; but the skin soon becomes 

 red, then violet-colored, the hairs conglomerate, the parts become 

 softened, tumefied, and even proceed to mortification. Meanwhili 



