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au ulcer. At other times there may be a slight ele- 

 vation of a fungous nature. I have seen a few cases 

 in which the tissue sloughed clean from the bone. 

 The breath becomes fetid, usually a foul-smelling 

 diarrhea sets in, mixed with blood, followed by 

 great prostration, the animal dies in from twenty- 

 four to forty-eight hours from the beginning of the 

 attack; some few cases may last longer. The dis- 

 ease is contagious and all the well pigs should be 

 removed at once from the affected ones and from 

 the locality. All those which die should be burned 

 or buried deep, with a good coating of fresh lime 

 over them. 



Treatment: In the early stage give one to two 

 ounces of epsom salts at a dose, this to be followed 

 by ten to fifteen drops of the oil of gaultheria in a 

 little syruj) or sweet oil or a solution of gum arable 

 three or four times a day. If the animal is weak, 

 do not give the salts, but give the oil of gaultheria 

 and one dram of tincture chloride of iron three or 

 four times daily. If there is foul-smelling diarrhea 

 I have found great benefit by giving ten grain 

 doses of boracic acid three or six times a day; I 

 have given as much as two drams in divided doses 

 in twenty-four hours; it is best given in a table- 

 spoonful of sweet oil or cotton seed oil; if the ani- 

 mal seems much distressed one to two grains of 

 powdered opium can be added to the acid. The 

 mouth and affected parts should be washed several 

 times a day with peroxide of hydrogen (fifteen vol- 

 umes), one part, water two parts. When the pus- 

 tule sloughs apply a little terchloride of antimony 



