DISEASES OF THE HOG. Wi 
appetite and the animal appearing stupid, and as 
it becomes more pronounced the animal will stag- 
ger and have the appearance of being giddy with a 
wild expression of the eyes; there is often a twitch- 
ing of the eyelids, sometimes so much so that it 
may completely close them for a moment, then ex- 
tend them wide open and so on. At this stage of 
the disease the pulse is full and hard and the 
breathing slow; the animal soon becomes very rest- 
less and at times will tear substances with its 
~ teeth, and sooner or later delirium sets in, the pulse 
is then full, hard and fast and may be irregular; 
the breathing is hurried, the skin hot and dry, vom- 
iting is very characteristic of this disease, although 
JI have seen cases where vomiting did not occur. 
The delirium soon gives way to stupor then to 
coma, but this is not so common in the pig as in 
man (exhaustion with convulsion.) We cannot 
confine the animal in its wild delirious condition 
and on this account it soon exhausts itself and dies. 
It is seldom that a pig affected with this complaint 
will live more than twenty-four to thirty-six hours. 
I was called to examine a number of pigs which 
were supposed to be affected with hydrophobia, 
but which proved tu be inflammation of the brain 
caused by a sudden change of food. The animals 
had been fed on dry corn in the ear for a length of 
time without sufficient water and were changed to 
green corn and corn stalks and in three days after 
eight of them were affected, I could find no other 
cause. All the well ones were put back on the dry 
food and none of them were affected. On the sec- 
