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shown, there ia 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, asporogenous, 

 gas producing with glucose and fatal to guinea-pigs ; or of that 

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

 ous, 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 

 thrist. 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 ma}- 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. 



