SWINE. 85 



Hemedij. — Examine the issues, and give a moderate dose of 

 physic and a few boiled parsnips, and other cooling liquids. 

 (See fevers in cattle, p. 45.) 



COSTIVENESS. 



Remedy. — Give a small quantity of Epsom salts or castor- 

 oil in the food, and a few handfuls of fresh clover if it is ia 

 season. (See cattle, p. 49.) 



KIDNEY-WORM. 



The symptoms are great weakness of the loins and hinder 



fiarts, followed by entire prostration. It is seldom cured un- 

 ess attended to in its earliest stages. This disorder is prevented 

 by a lange of pasture, and mixing a teacupful of wood-a :^S3 

 with their food every week, or putting tar and saltpetre in their 

 troughs. 



Remedy. — When first attacked, anoint the loins with spirits 

 of turpentine, or soak corn or rye in lye made from wood-ashes, 

 and feed every morning ; or give 1 grain of calomel, and keep 

 the animal warm for a few days. 



SWINE-POX. 



This shows itself by a fine eruption of the skin near the 

 joints, and by a redness of the eyes. 



Remedy. — Take ^ an oz. saltpetre, dissolve it in ^ pt. vine- 

 gar and a teacupful of sw^eet or linseed oil, and a tablespoonful 

 of honey, and give lukewarm, in 3 parts, every morning. 



BLACK -TEETH. 



This sfenerally attacks swine early in the spring, and is oc- 

 casioned by being kept long from the ground. Its first synip- 

 toms are the teeth turning brown, and soon after black, which 

 soon aflTects the whole system, producing dizziness, trembling, 

 weakness of the hinder parts, loss of appetite, and wildness of 

 the eyes. 



Remedy. — As the black teeth not only injure the general 

 health as well as the sound teeth, they ought to be extracted. 

 Examine and see that the issues are open, give 1 oz. sulphur 

 and 1 oz. pulverized charcoal, with tar-water, and fresh green 

 food. Keep the diseased swine separate from the rest for a few 

 days. 



MURRAIN. 



This disorder is the most prevalent toward the close of 

 warm vv^eather, when the blood becomes thick and inflamed, 

 producing fever, shortness of breath, weakness, inflammation 

 of the eyes, drowsiness, and inaction. 



Remedy.— Boil ^ lb. elecampane-root ^ an hour, in 6 quarts 

 water ; add ^ lb. sulphur, ^ lb. pulverized aniseseed, ^ lb. liquor- 



