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shown, there is always the evidence of a foul or unwholesome 

 food, drink or environment, and the history of a number having 

 been attacked at once and not one by one at varying intervals, as 

 in infection, the disease does not spread to neighboring herds 

 kept in better conditions, and there is an absence of the specific 

 germ of hog cholera, motile, aerobic, non-liquefying, asporo- 

 genous, gas producing with glucose and fatal to guinea-pigs ; or 

 of that of swine plague, non-motile, aerobic, non-liquefying, 

 asporogenous, not gas producing and not fatal to guinea-pigs, 

 but fatal to rabbits. 



Treatment. If the bowels are costive give castor oil 2 ounces, 

 with great care to avoid choking, or shake 15 to 30 grains of 

 calomel on the tongue and give flaxseed tea, or solution of slip- 

 pery elm or gum which the animal will usually drink to slake its 

 thirst. Or well boiled gruels may be substituted. Injections of 

 soapsuds or Glauber salts with salicylate of soda should be added 

 until the bowels respond, after which the salicylate alone may be 

 given by both mouth and anus, or it may be replaced by one of 

 the other non-poisonous antiseptics. Oil of turpentine alone or 

 with ammonia may be applied on the abdomen and covered up 

 until the skin is red and angry. 



When appetite returns, gruels, linseed tea, boiled milk and 

 other easily digested food may be given for some days until the 

 stomach reacquires tone, when the patient may be slowly returned 

 to its accustomed diet. 



If the disease can be traced to alkaline washing powders, these 

 should be first neutralized by vinegar, after which laudanum, 

 antiseptics and mucilaginous gruels will be in order. 



