560 MALIGNANT SOKE THROAT OF PIG. 



MALIGNANT SOKE THROAT OF PIG QUINSY OF Pio 

 CYNANCHE MALIGNA s. CAKBUNCULAEIS. 



Two diseases may be included under the head of malig- 

 nant angina of the pig. The one is a local affection, and 

 the other is rather a local manifestation of antnrax, and 

 has received the name of soie or pique in France. Both 

 these diseases have been described very carefully by many 

 authors, and I have witnessed the first myself. For con- 

 venience they may be distinguished as quinsy of the pig and 

 malignant sore throat. 



I. Malignant Sore Throat. This disease of the pig is 

 characterised by feverish symptoms, dulness, stiff gait, and 

 loss of appetite, followed by difficult breathing, gasping for 

 breath, cough, heat of expired air, great heat of back, bluish 

 colour of the buccal membrane, swelling of the tongue, diffi- 

 cult deglutition, and symptoms of suffocation. Externally 

 and along the course of the trachea a hard inflammatory 

 swelling extends, which may pass down to the fore extremi- 

 ties. Desquamation of the epithelium occurs from within 

 the mouth, and there is a great tendency to gangrene. The 

 disease may terminate fatally in from one to three days. 



After death the local lesions of inflammation, with exten- 

 sive exudation of blood and lymph, are noticed. In additin > 

 to this, the organs of the body generally are dark-coloured 

 from the accumulation of dark blood in the blood-vessels. 



Treatment. An active emetic such as the following: 



Ifc Potassio-tartrato of antimony . 4 grains. 



Ipecacuanha . . . . . 6 

 White hellebore .... 6 



Mix. To be given in food, or thrown into the mouth. 



