DISEASES OV" TME nOG. 193 



should set in tlie secretions of urine will be scanty 

 and the bowels are usuall}^ constipated. 



Treatment: Keep the animal as quiet as pos- 

 sible. Give it one or two ounces epsom salts to 

 clean out the bowels and cool the system; then give 

 ten grains acetate of lead and two grains of opium, 

 at a dose, repeat in four hours with half the quan- 

 tity and so on until the hemorrhage ceases. If 

 the discharge of blood should be abundant give the 

 lead and opium at once. In this case the salts 

 should not be given, as the lead and opium would 

 prevent the salts from physicing. If the fever is 

 high and the pulse full give five drops of tincture 

 of aconite every two hours. Boil flaxseed and 

 make a tea of it and give it cold and as much as 

 the pig will take. If the injury has not been too 

 severe this treatment will cure it. 



IDIOPATHIC HEMATURIA. 



This form of the disease is observed under a 

 great variety of circumstances. It seems to occur 

 in certain localities and seasons. I have known it 

 to break out among a herd of hogs that had been 

 fed on diseased potatoes, and it has made its ap- 

 pearance among hogs without any apparent cause. 



Symptoms: There is a copious discharge of a 

 dark or red colored urine which does not separate 

 into clots on the floor or ground; the animal moves 

 stifiiy and is weak in its hind legs, the pulse is fast 

 and rather weak, the breathing is increased in 

 frequency, and in the later stages of the disease is 

 panting or spasmodic, the temperature will be up 



