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If sucking pigs are affected with this disease, the mother 

 must be confined to dry farinaceous food for a few days. 



GARGET OF THE MAW. 



"This is a disorder arising from repletion, and is found 

 alike in older animals and in sucking pigs. Its symptoms 

 strongly resemble those of colic. The remedies, too, are 

 purgatives. Epsom salts is here, perhaps, as good a thing 

 as can be given, in doses of from a quarter of an ounce to 

 an ounce. It might as well be called indigestion, for such 

 it actually is, the stomach being overloaded with food. In 

 sucking pigs it arises from the coagulation of milk in the 

 stomach." 



DISEASED LIVER. 



This seldom occurs with hogs that have the run of green 

 pastures, or are supplied with natural, varied diet; but 

 those that are kept in close pens, and fed principally upon 

 concentrated food, are apt to be found, when butchered, 

 with boils or ulcers on the liver. Preventives in the form 

 of green food or roots, will generally preserve the health 

 of the liver in the hog. 



If this disease becomes serious, small doses of calomel, 

 given in slops twice a day for a few days, will generally re- 

 move its cause. 



SPLENITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE SPLEEN. 



Damp and filthy pens, and foul heated air, are fruitful 

 sources of this disease. 



" Swine suffering under this malady are restless and de- 

 bilitated, shun their companions, and bury themselves in 

 the litter. There is loss of appetite, and excessive thirst, 

 so excessive that they will drink up anything that comes 

 in their way, no matter how filthy. The respiration is 

 short ; they cough, vomit, grind the teeth, and foam at the 

 mouth ; the groin is wrinkled, and of a pale, brownish hue, 



