160 : DISEASES OF THE HOG. 
. CHAPTER XVII. 
SCARLET FEVER. 
This is a contagious disease, characterized by _ 
inflammation of the fauces (back part of the mouth) 
and a scarlet rash appearing usually on the second 
day and ending about the sixth or seventh. This 
disease is often confounded with measles. Al- 
though there is a marked difference in the human 
being it is not so easily distinguished in the hog 
unless the animal is white. If it should be mis- 
taken for measles or measles mistaken for it, the 
error would not be of much consequence, as it has 
to be treated according to the stage and severity 
of the fever; that.is, to confine the fever as much as 
possible and keep up the strength of the patient. 
Symptoms: In the early stages there is languor, 
and stiffness caused by the muscles of the back be- 
ing affected; there is a fast pulse, from one hundred 
to one hundred and twenty; high temperature, one 
hundred to one hundred and six; dry, hot skin, 
furred tongue, loss of appetite, great thirst, and 
great muscular weakness; sometimes the animal 
will vomit and the nervous system may be disor- 
dered, causing restlessness, delirium, stupor, coma 
or convulsions. Very often from the beginning 
