36 DISEASES OF THE HOG. 



five drops of carbolic acid in a little sweetened 

 water will be found useful; ten drops of nitro-muri- 

 atic acid in a little water given twice a day is also 

 good. 



GASTRITIS (INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH.) 



This disease is usually seated in the mucous 

 membrane and the sub-mucous areolar or connect- 

 ive tissue; but in some severe cases the muscular 

 tissue is also involved. 



Acute gastritis is not a common disease in the 

 hog, and it is not often seen as an independent af- 

 fection, but is more frequently associated witli 

 some other disease. Wood says: "Few organs 

 resist so firmly the ordinary direct causes of in- 

 flammation as the stomach, and few are so readily 

 affected through the sympathies.'' 



Causes : Inflammation of the stomach is usually 

 caused by the pig eating some indigestible food 

 which sets up irritation, or by caustic medicines, 

 or in some few cases by rheumatism. 



Symptoms : There will be vomiting, great pain, 

 restlessness, the pig moving about almost con- 

 stantly from place to place, and occasionally 

 squealing; it will refuse food, but may be thirsty; 

 the substance thrown up will be, first, the contents 

 of the stomach, afterwards, bile or mucus often 

 tinged with blood; the end of the nose is dry, and if 

 the tongue is examined it will be found to be 

 coated with a whitish fur; the bowels are usually 

 constipated; the animal breathes fast, and thit 



