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SWINE AND THEIR DISEASES. 



pours the medicine, which must be at least as thin as. oil, first into 

 one nostril and then into the other from a feeding can, similar to 

 those used for oiling machinery." 



CHARBO», OB ANTHRAX. 



Much confusion exists, not only in the books, but among the 

 doctors, in regard to anthrax in swine. It has been confounded, at 

 one time or another, with the so-called " hbg-choleYa." We invite 

 particular attention to the full and careful outline of symptoms, 

 with the treatment of the disease given in the following pages, and 

 the description of other apparently similar but probably different 

 affections. There will also be found practical arid effective prevent- 

 ive measures, based on a close study of the natdre and development 

 of the diseases. Anthrax disease in pigs has, generally, as predis- 

 posing causes, either the manner in which the animals are housed 

 and fed, the filth of the soil, or the weather. This disease and those 

 explained in its connection are various types of blood-poisoning, 

 caused by bacilli or other germs,— minute vegetable organisms in 



Pig." 1253.— African Wild Boar. 



the blood ; whence the specific blood-poisoning specially character- 

 istic of all the different disorders. In a word, anthrax is the same 

 disease as that described under the same name in the chapters in 

 this work on diseases of cattle. Dr. Detmers, who has devoted 

 much research to these diseases, and from whom' we copy largely, 

 states that they are very liable to originate near stagnant water, or 



