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should set in the secretions of urine will be scanty 
and the bowels are usually constipated. 
Treatment: Keep the animal as quiet as pos- 
sible. Give it one or two ounces epsom salts to 
clean out the bowels and cool the system; then give 
ten grains acetate of lead and two grains of opium 
at a dose, repeat in four hours with half the quan- 
tity and so on until the hemorrhage ceases. If 
the discharge of blood should be abundant give the 
lead and opium at once. In this case the salts 
should not be given, as the lead and opium would 
prevent the salts from physicing. If the fever is 
high and the pulse full give five drops of tincture 
of aconite every two hours. Boil flaxseed and 
make a tea of it and give it cold and as much as 
the pig will take. If the injury has not been too 
severe this treatment will cure it. 
IDIOPATHIC HEMATURIA. 
This form of the disease is observed under a 
great variety of circumstances. It seems to occur 
in certain localities and seasons. I have known it 
to break out among a herd of hogs that had been 
fed on diseased potatoes, and it has made its ap- 
pearance among hogs without any apparent cause. 
Symptoms: There is a copious discharge of a 
dark or red colored urine which does not separate 
into clots on the floor or ground; the animal moves 
stiffly and is weak in its hind legs, the pulse is fast 
and rather weak, the breathing is increased in 
frequency, and in the later stages of the disease is 
panting or spasmodic, the temperature will be up 
