THE HOG AND HIS DISEASES. 3138 
a little water or meal every two or three hours. Ten drops of hepar every 
three hours will be useful for the symptoms just named, swelling of the 
head and face, and tendency in the swellings to “point”? in suppuration. 
Give ten drops of mercurius every two or three hours when the swellings 
become soft and the saliva is profuse and offensive, or if the abscesses break 
internally. Sulphur is a good general remedy, and is peculiarly suitable to 
complete a cure that has begun. The greatest virtue is claimed for a mix- 
ture of equal parts of sweet oil, spirits of turpentine and kerosene oil, put 
into the feed and thus scattered over soft stone-coal. It may be used with 
great hope of good results, both as a remedy and a preventive. Pure air, 
warmth, freedom from cold draughts and sudden changes of temperature, 
warm but simple gruels, and tepid water are essential in the treatment, and 
are most serviceable in preventing the spread of the disease. This disorder 
is contagious, and the affected animals should be isolated at once. 
SWINE-POX., 
This is a contagious disease, being even communicable to man, and 
perhaps attacks young pigs most often. It is characterized by little red 
spots which are more particularly seen on the flanks, behind the shoulders, 
and in other parts where the skin is thin. After the poison enters the sys- 
tem it is latent ten or twelve days in winter, and three to six in summer. 
Then there will be dullness, loss of appetite, and stiffness of the hind parts, 
these being followed by increased temperature, constipation, red and watery 
eyes, nasal discharge, trembling, and red patches on the abdomen and inside 
the legs. Little red spots saon appear, generally flat on top, their centers 
becoming pale or clear, with a red margin. These spots may appear 
singly or in patches, the latter indicating a more serious condition. When 
these eruptions appear, the fever measurably declines for three or four days, 
only to return as the vesicles grow more prominent and irritating. The 
eruptions finally dry up and form crusts, the latter then becoming gradually 
detached. The disease lasts three to five weeks, and is sometimes very fatal, 
though generally the most of the patients recover. 
TREATMENT.—Keep the pigs in a cool, dry, well-ventilated place, 
with an abundance of bedding, and avoid heating food, giving roots and 
gruels of the meal of oats or beans, with a little saltpetre once a day. 
Provide salt for the pigs to lick, and put a little vinegar in the drinking- 
water. In the latter stages, when there is much weakness, give such tonics 
as cinchona and gentian. Use upon the eruptions such local applications 
as are recommended for Cow-Pox. In other respects, follow the directions 
and cautions set forth under the head of Sheep-Pox. 
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