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mal will not take it in the drinking water put it in 

 a little water and give it with a spoon. In three 

 days if the animal is not improved give it from 

 two to three drops of fluid extract of nux vomica 

 and from ten to fifteen drops of oil of gaultheria 

 in a tablespoon of sweet oil three times a day. 

 Also rub the back, loins and hips once a day with 

 a little compound soap liniment. Feed the pig on 

 oatmeal mush and milk, with a little of anything 

 else it will take. Also see that the animal is shel- 

 tered from the heat of the sun, rain and cold. I have 

 been very successful in the curing of this disease 

 by the above treatment 



HYDROPHOBIA, RABIES, RABIES CANINA. 



This is a peculiar disease resulting from the en- 

 trance into the system of a poison of a rabid ani- 

 mal^ the poison is almost always received by the 

 bite of an animal. The wound usually heals and 

 for some time after no constitutional effects are 

 felt. It is seldom that any symptoms of the dis- 

 ease are show^n until about the twentieth day after 

 the bite. Some believe that it may originate in 

 man or dogs independently of any poison entering 

 the system, but it is not likely that it has been 

 •real hydrophobia, as there are a number of nervous 

 diseases which somewhat resemble hydrophobia 

 and may have been mistaken for it. There is no 

 doubt but what the saliva contains the germs of 

 the poison, and if it should come in contact with 

 a mucous membrane it will become absorbed. 



Youatt mentions that persons have been at- 



