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On Diseases of Swine. 

 Read June 13th, 1809. 



Northumberland 2\st, March 1809. 



Siry 



A friend lent me a few days ago the first volume of the 

 Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for promoting 

 agriculture : — I have perused it with much pleasure ; — 

 it will no doubt encourage those interested in agricul- 

 tural pursuits to make the communications which the 

 society invite. — Observing in the preface, that the soci- 

 ety call particularly for information " on the diseases 

 of our domeetic Shimals," — I cannot refrain from giving 

 you an account of the diseases which within my know- 

 ledge have attended an animal, that few writers have 

 thought worth while to notice ; but which Dr. Rush, 

 in his admirable introductory Lecture, (published by 

 the society,) has rescued from that state of obscurity 

 and neglect under which it had so long lain dormant : 

 you will readily perceive, I mean the hog. — I wish the 

 information 1 am about to give may be acceptable to 

 the society, but I own my chief object in writing is in 

 the hope, that it may induce others to come forward, 

 and supply information on a subject on which it has 

 either not h^txx fashionable to treat, or perhaps from the 

 mistaken idea (to quote the words of Dr. Rush) " that 

 the hog like the miser, can do good only when he 

 dits." — 1 have generally in my pens from 100 to 250 

 of those animals : they are of course subject to diseases ; 

 one with which I was most troubled was a disorder that 



