56 DISEASES OF SWINE 



Treatment. — The preventive treatment of thumps 

 in young pigs is good care and plenty of exercise. 

 Exercise alone will generally effect a cure. 



When the disease develops in a litter of pigs, they 

 should be turned^ on pasture and given plenty of 

 opportunity to run about. If this cannot be done, 

 they should be exercised in some other way, as 

 placing them in a pen or box away from the mother. 

 To relieve the spasms, tincture of opium can bft 

 given in from three to fifteen drop doses three times 

 & day. A small dose of castor-oil should also be 

 given in order to prevent constipation. The indiges- 

 tion should be treated by regulating the diet and 

 giving a course of bitter tonics, if necessary. 



