DISEASES OF THE FioG. 101 
When there is much fever advantage can some- 
times be had by giving two grains of calomel 
every two hours until it ‘has made an impression 
on the pulse, or from three to five drops of the 
fluid extract of veratrum viride four or five 
times a day in a little water. Sometimes ad- 
vantage is obtained from gargling the throat with 
alum and water, a teaspoonful of alum to a glass of 
water; this can be repeated every hour or two. The 
operation of tracheotomy cannot be resorted to 
with success on account of the shortness of the neck 
and the accumulation of fat. . 
CHRONIC LARYNGITIS, 
This form is not common in the pig. The mucous 
membrane though inflamed maintains its integrity. 
There is little inconvenience; it is only when ulcera- 
tion takes place that it injures the animal. A pig 
may be affected with this trouble and keep in good 
condition and the only thing noticeable will be a 
dry cough, which does not yield easily to treatment. 
The best remedy is the compound syrup of squills 
in thirty drop doses three times a day. If ulcera- 
tion should take place there will be a little blood 
mixed with the mucus coughed up. This form of 
disease cannot be successfully treated in the pig. 
Giving turpentine in dram doses three times a day 
and making the animal inhale the fumes from 
burning tar will sometimes be beneficial and might 
be tried. an 
