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pulse is full and frequent at first; the skin is dry, 

 the urine high colored, and there is sometimes a 

 hard, dry cough. As the disease advances these 

 symptoms become intensified; debility and rest- 

 lessness increase; delirium sometimes takes place, 

 or the animal may become partially paralyzed and 

 soon sink and die. On the other hand, if the disease 

 should take a favorable turn, the vomiting will be- 

 come less frequent or cease altogether; the animal 

 becomes quiet, lies down and may go to sleep, and 

 after a while may be looking for food. In some 

 cases of gastritis caused by irritant poisons, the 

 animal may die in a 'very short time; but in the 

 majority of cases the pig will live for twenty-four 

 hours to four or five days. 



Treatment: If possible, find the cause. If it 

 should be a strong acid give carbonate of soda or 

 lime water; or if nothing else is at hand scrape 

 some of the plaster or whitewash off the wall, mix 

 it with water and give it as soon as possible. On 

 the other hand, if it should be by an alkali, give 

 vinegar, then give flaxseed w^ater, barley water, 

 or gum arable dissolved in water; of if nothing else 

 is on hand give milk. The animal should always 

 get from fifteen to twenty-five drops of tincture of 

 opium in a little water every hour, or one to two 

 grains of powdered opium and a half grain of calo- 

 mel. If from indigestible food, give one to two 

 ounces of castor oil; follow this with linseed tea 

 or gum arable dissolved in water, and the opium 

 as before. When the vomiting has lasted for some 

 time it ought to be checked if possible, and this 



