ANTHRAX AND CHOLERA. 953 



Mix and give two or three times a day. Give charcoal in the food 

 or drink, and if the bowels become swollen, twenty drops of turpen- 

 tine from time to time. 



Major Mellon, of St. Louis, attributes the disease to contagion 

 or a too exclusive diet of grain. He gives the -following judicious 

 rules: — ■■, 



1. Separate the sick from the well. 2. Give both a free range 

 in a woody pasture, if possible. 3. Place within reach of both, pul- 

 verized stone coal, or charcoal and salt. 4. Give ;them free access 

 to plenty of water, and clay to wallow in. 5. Feed all, particularly 

 the sick, with plenty of turnips, or, if these cannot be had, with po- 

 tatoes, artichokes, or any other roots they like. Do not feed corn. 

 He believes that every hog thus treated, if not too sick to eat a full 

 meal of turnips, will surely get well, and that no well hog thus 

 treated and fed on turnips will take the disease, even bycbntagion. 

 Major Mellon attributes the prevalence of " Cholera " in the Miss- 

 issippi Valley to a too highly stimulating diet. 



