196 t)IgEASES OF THE TTOCl. 



ether in a little water; repeat it every four hours 

 until it takes effect If there are no symptoms of 

 inflammation, nitrate of potassium^ in ten to 

 twenty grains at a dose, put into the drinking 

 water will be found useful. If the pig is stiff and 

 there is not much fever give one dram each of the 

 fluid extract of buchu and spirits of nitrous ether 

 at a dose in a little water three times a day. The 

 pig should have a good supply of cold linseed tea to 

 drink, also milk, with a little lime water in it 



ATROPHY OF THE KIDNEYS. 



Atrophy of the kidneys, one or both, has been 

 found in the pig. Usually when one kidney is 

 atrophied the other becomes hypertrophied and it 

 will perform the function of both. Gamgee men- 

 tions a case in which one kidney was absent and 

 its fibrous capsule alone remaining distended by a 

 yellow fluid of a strong urinous odor, whereas its 

 fellow was very much enlarged and the animal was 

 in good health. 



HYPERTROPHY OF THE KIDNEYS. 



This is a very common thing in pigs which have 

 been overfed from an early period. I have .exam- 

 ined pigs which have died from other diseases and 

 found one or both kidneys very much enlarged. 

 I have also found such the case in hogs that were 

 killed, which appeared in perfect health and took 

 on flesh very rapidly. Neither atrophy nor hyper- 

 trophy can be diagnosed; it is, therefore, when the 

 pig has died from some other disease or has been 



