70 DISEASES OF THE HOG. 
Symptoms: The animal appears dull, refuses 
food, if ade to move will go stiffly and may be 
lame in the right fore leg; there will be tenderness 
on pressure over the ribs on the right side which 
will not be the case if pressure should be applied 
to the left. There will sometimes be a yellowness 
of the visible mucous membrane and of the skin. 
The functions of the liver are arrested, thus the se- 
cretions of bile are not carried on and on this ac- 
count the bowels become torpid, and the feces of a 
chocolate color. Sometimes they are affected by 
looseness and the feces are generally unhealthy, 
evinced by an excess or deficiency or perverted 
-state of the bile. There is usually a cough which 
may arise from the pressure of the liver against 
the lungs or from sympathy. The urine is high 
colored and scanty, the respiration is somewhat 
impeded and is short and jerky, the pulse is soft 
weak and frequent. With these symptoms and 
the absence of other diseases we may conclude that 
we have a case of hepatitis.~ There is a chronic 
form of this disease which I have met with in pigs. 
The symptoms are a dry, scurfy skin, with an un- 
thrifty appearance, in the majority of cases there 
will be a diffused vellowness of the mucous mem- 
brane; the animal falls off from condition and has 
_a disinclination to move about;the pulse and respi- 
ration are unaffected; the feces are of a dry clay 
color and the urine is usually scanty and high col- 
* ored of a deep yellow color. Hepatitis is so fruit- 
ful a source of other morbid affections that no time 
should be lost in its treatment, 
