DISEASES OF THE HOG. 169 
given three or four timesaday. Tincture chloride 
of iron has been ‘found very useful in this disease 
in doses of from fifteen to twenty drops every two 
hours throughout the disease without reference 
to the degree of fever or delirium. The best local 
treatment is to keep the swollen part constantly 
wet with acetate of lead lotion, strength half an 
ounce to the quart of water. The effusion of slip- 
pery elm bark has been used with success, but I 
have had the most advantage from the use of the 
lead. The animal should be fed on milk and oat- 
meal and kept comfortable and given all the cold 
water it will drink. If blisters form they should 
be opened to prevent them from communication 
and the consequent loss of the skin, and dress the 
opened vesicle with acetate of lead lotion. If gan- 
grene should take place in a part it may possibly 
be arrested by applying a blister over thé surface 
of the part affected. Also support the strength 
of the animal with beef tea and quinine and 
whisky. It is seldom that the animal recovers 
after gangrene sets in in any part of the affected 
surface. 
