122 DISEASES OF THE HOG. 



bronchitis should be present there may be more or 

 less mucus mixed with the blood. 



Treatment: The pig should be kept as quiet as 

 possible. It often does more harm than good to 

 confine a pig to give it medicine in such cases, and 

 a slight hemorrhage is often beneficial to the ani- 

 mal in relieving congestion. If the hemorrhage 

 should be severe give hypodermic injections of the 

 fluid extract of ergot of rye in two dram doses; re- 

 peat every hour until stopped. Other remedies 

 which are used with success in man cannot be of 

 much service in the pig. 



