122 DISEASES OF THE HOG. 
bronchitis should be present there may be more or 
less mucus mixed with the blood. 
Treatment: The pig should be kept as quiet as 
possible. It often does more harm than good to 
confine a pig to give it medicine in such cases, and 
a slight hemorrhage is often beneficial to the ani- 
mal in relieving congestion. If the hemorrhage - 
should be severe give hypodermic injections of the 
fluid extract of ergot of rye in two dram doses; re- 
peat every hour until stopped. Other remedies 
which are used with success in man cannot be of 
much service in the pig. 
