IGO DISEASES OF THE HOC. 



CHAPTER XVIL 

 SCARLET FEVER. 



This is a contagious disease, characterized by 

 inflammation of the fauces (back part of the mouth) 

 and a scarlet rash appearing usually on the second 

 day and ending about the sixth or seventh. This 

 disease is often confounded with measles. Al- 

 though there is a marked difference in the human 

 being it is not so easily distinguished in the hog 

 unless the animal is white. If it should be mis- 

 taken for measles or measles mistaken for it, the 

 error would not be of much consequence, as it has 

 to be treated according to the stage and severity 

 of the fever; that is, to confine the fever as much as 

 possible and keep up the strength of the patient 



Symptoms : In the early stages there is languor, 

 and stiffness caused by the muscles of the back be- 

 ing affected ; there is a fast pulse, from one hundred 

 to one hundred and twenty; high temperature, one 

 hundred to one hundred and six; dry, hot skin, 

 furred tongue, loss of appetite, great thirst, and 

 great muscular weakness; sometimes the animal 

 will vomit and the nervous system may be disor- 

 dered, causing restlessness, delirium, stupor, coma 

 or convulsions. Very often from the beginning 



