MALIGNANT SOEE THROAT OF PIG. 561 



If the animal will drink anything, or eat a little, a purga- 

 tive powder, consisting of two or three drachms of castor oil 

 seeds, should be given. When the difficulty of breathing is 

 great, tracheotomy must be performed, an active blister ap- 

 plied over the throat, and injections given frequently. If 

 the animal can swallow, and will drink water, some hydro- 

 chlorate of ammonia and nitre should be dissolved in it. It 

 has been recommended to apply the actual cautery on either 

 side of the neck, or, perhaps better, rugs wrung out of boil- 

 ing water. 



CARBUNCULAR QUINSY CYNANCHE TONSILLARIS. 



This is the soie, pique, piquet, maladie piquante, or soies- 

 piqutfes of the French, and the kropfbrandbeule of the Ger- 

 mans. It is a disease chiefly manifesting itself on one side 

 of the neck, and implicating the tonsil on that side. 



Symptoms. The bristles on the affected side are erected. 

 There are twelve or fifteen of them sticking out and firm. 

 If they are pulled .or even touched, the animal screams with 

 pain, and the surface over which they are implanted is de- 

 pressed or cup-shaped, of a dark bluish colour. The animal 

 becomes exceedingly dull, listless, deaf, and is always lying. 

 There is no desire to take anything, and if made to rise and 

 move, it is evident that the body cannot be supported on the 

 extremities. The breathing becomes laboured, the expired air 

 hot and fetid, the mouth hot and foaming, and the lower jaw 

 is constantly moved from right to left, or left to right. The 

 eyes are bloodshot ; there is either constipation or diarrhoea, 

 and the evacuation of fseces seems to afford some momentary 

 relief. The animal becomes comatose, and dies asphyxiated 

 in from 24 to 48 hours, or lingers on and dies in convulsive 

 fits, on the seventh, eighth, or r.inth day. 



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