DISEASES OF THE HOG. 185 
mal will not take it in the drinking water put it in 
a little water and give it with a spoon. In three 
days if the animal is not improved give it from 
two to three drops of fluid extract of nux vomica 
and from ten to fifteen drops of oil of gaultheria 
in a tablespoon of sweet oil three times a day. 
_Also rub the back, loins and hips once a day with | 
a little compound soap liniment. Feed the pig on 
oatmeal mush and milk, with a little of anything 
else it will take. Also see that the animal is shel- 
tered from the heat of the sun, rain and cold. I have | 
been very successful in the curing of this disease 
by the above treatment. 
HYDROPHOBIA, RABIES, RABIES CANINA. 
This is a peculiar disease resulting from the en- 
trance into the system of a poison of a rabid ani- 
mal; the poison is almost always received by the 
bite of an animal. The wound usually heals and 
for some time after no constitutional effects are 
felt. It is seldom that any symptoms of the dis- 
ease are shown until about the twentieth day after 
the bite. Some believe that it may originate in 
man or dogs independently of any poison entering 
the system, but it is not likely that it has been 
real hydrophobia, as there are a number of nervous 
diseases which somewhat resemble hydrophobia 
and may have been mistaken for it. There is no 
doubt but what the saliva contains the germs of 
the poison, and if it should come in contact with 
a mucous membrane it will become absorbed. 
Youatt mentions that persons have been at- 
