36 DISEASES OF THE HOG. 
five drops of carbolic acid in a little sweetened 
water will be found useful; ten drops of nitro-muri- 
atic acid in a little water given twice a day is also" 
good, 
GASTRITIS (INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH.) 
This disease is usually seated in the mucous 
membrane and the sub-mucous areolar or connect- 
ive tissue; but in some severe cases the muscular _ 
tissue is also involved. © 
Acute gastritis is not a common disease in the 
hog, and it is not often seen as an independent af- 
fection, but is more frequently associated with 
some other disease. Wood says: “Few organs 
resist so firmly the ordinary direct causes of in- 
flammation as the stomach, and few are so readily 
affected through the sympathies.” 
— Causes: Inflammation of the stomach is usually 
caused by the pig eating some indigestible food 
which sets up irritation, or by caustic medicines, 
or in some few cases by rheumatism. 
Symptoms: There will be vomiting, great pain, 
restlessness, the pig moving about almost con- 
stantly from place: to place, and occasionally 
squealing; it will refuse food, but may be thirsty; 
the substance thrown up.will be, first, the contents 
of the stomach, afterwards, bile or mucus often 
tinged with blood; the end of the nose is dry, and if 
the tongue is examined it will be found to be 
coated with a whitish fur; the bowels are usually 
constipated; the animal breathes fast, and the 
