312 THE VETERINARY DOCTOR. 
TREATMENT.—Since recovery 1s rare and the disease is so prone to 
spread with great fatality, the only safe course is to kill and bury the infected 
animal at once. If treatment is undertaken, keep the piggery thoroughly 
infected with carbolic acid, and isolate the patient from the well. Feed 
well-boiled gruels of rye or barley, and boiled corn-starch. Put a little 
sulphuric acid into the drinking-water, the latter being cool, fresh and clean, 
Rhus, five drops every hour or two, is suitable for stages marked by the 
spots on the skin, diarrhea, decline of spirits and strength, and threatened 
paralysis of the hind parts. Arsenicum, same dose as rhus, is a good gen- 
eral remedy, particularly for the diarrhea, blue spots, cold surface, and 
vomiting. When the belly is very tender and the dung bloody, ten to fif- 
teen drops of turpentine twice a day will be invaluable. 
In the general care, whether tz treatment or prevention, keep the 
apartments and bedding thoroughly clean and well-ventilated, dash cold 
water on the body, insure exercise, and give only good food, not too stimu- 
lating to the bowels for the well, and very simple for the sick. Test the 
temperature of all the hogs in the inclosure, and if it rises to or above 103°, 
treat or kill them at once. When one has been attacked, disinfect all others 
with dilute carbolic acid, and put a little of the same or a few drops of tur- 
pentine in the food or drink. Mix some charcoal in the food. Keep the 
well away from the inclosure, and from water that flows out of it. Bury 
or burn all infected animals as soon as they have died or been killed. Note 
the remarks under Strangles about confusing cholera with that disorder. 
STRANGLES.—QUINSY.—FALSE CHOLERA. 
The last of these three names is used because cases of strungles are fre- 
quently mistaken for cholera. Strangles, or so-called quinsy, is a result of 
colds, chills, or other influences which set up an inflammation of the mucous 
membranes of the respiratory organs. This may extend to the digestive 
track and induce a peculiar diarrhea which, with the rapid fatality incident 
to both, leads to the confusion with real cholera. The glands beneath the 
neck are swollen, with a general swelling and stiffness of the neck; the 
head is immovable; the breathing is difficult, rattling and hoarse, or of a 
snoring nature; considerable fever is present; the tongue hangs out, and is 
covered with a slimy, sticky saliva; diarrheea often occurs; there is a rapid 
decline of strength; the swelling on the neck tends to gangrene; death 
rapidly ensues. 
TreatMent.—In the beginning it will often be sufficient to afford 
warm, dry shelter, tepid or cool water and gruels. For dry and inflamed or 
swollen throat, with suffocating breathing, give six drops of belladonna in 
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