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easily prevented than cured, and generally takes strong 

 hold upon the patient before any attention is given. 



Emetics, and tonics, are recommended, and from three 

 to five grains of sulphate of copper, given at night and 

 morning, in warm slops, is beneficial, but hogs affected with 

 this disease must have warm sheltered beds, or medicines 

 will avai 1 but little. White hellebore, (veratrum album) or 

 tartar emetic, ten to twenty grains to a full grown hog and 

 repeating in small doses if necessary ; use smaller doses 

 for young hogs, or shoats. 



STRANGLES, OR QUINSY. 



Symptoms " The glands under the throat begin to swell, 

 and thus affect, not only the respiratory organs, but the act 

 of swallowing ; impeded respiration, hoarseness, and debili- 

 ty then supervene ; the pulse becomes quick, and unequal ; 

 the head, to a certain extent, palsied ; the neck tumefies, 

 and rapidly goes on to gangrene ; the tongue hangs from 

 the mouth, and is covered with slaver ; and the animal 

 gradually sinks. The glands sometimes ulcerate, and oc- 

 casionally abscesses are formed, and these bursting give 

 relief. 



Treatment. " In the commencement of the disease very 

 simple treatment is required, such as cooling medicines, 

 (saline purgatives,) attention to diet, and proper care and 

 protection. 



"But when the swelling, impeded respiration and diffi- 

 cult swallowing has come on, recourse must be had to more 

 energetic treatment. Bleeding and purgatives are first in- 

 dicated. Setons and punctures of the swelled glands have 

 also been recommended, and, in extreme cases, there is no 

 reason why we should not have recourse to blisters and 

 external stimulants as counter-irritants. 



" A diseased animal should never be allowed to remain 

 among healthy ones, as the malady is so infectious that it 

 may almost be regarded as an epizootic." Mr. Reasor 

 recommends also the use of nitrate of potash a table- 



