26 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



Before death the patient loses control of the hind limbs, 

 and is often sunk in complete stupor, with muscular 

 trembling, jerking, and involuntary motions of the bowels. 



Causes. It is mainly propagated by contagion, though 

 fatilts in diet and management may serve to develop it. 

 The poison will blow half a mile or more on the 

 wind, and is with difficulty destroyed in hog-pens, fodder, 

 etc. 



Treatment ought not to bo permissible, unless in a con- 

 stantly disinfected atmosphere. Feed, well-boiled gruel 

 of barley or rye, or in case these raise the fever, corn- 

 starch made with boiling water ; give to drink fresh cool 

 water, slightly acidulated with sulphuric acid. For the 

 early constipation give a mild laxative (castor oil, rhu- 

 barb,) and injections of warm water, following up with 

 fever medicine (nitrate of potassa and bisulphite of soda). 

 If the patient survives the iirst few days and shows signs 

 of ulceration of the bowels (bloody dung, tender belly,) 

 give oil of turpentine f5.fteen to twenty drops night and 

 morning. Follow up with tonics, and careful soft feeding. 



Prevention. Kill and bury the diseased ; thoroughly 

 disinfect all they have come in contact with ; watch the 

 survivors for the first sign of illness, test all suspicious 

 subjects with the thermometer in the rectum, and sepa- 

 rate from the herd if it shows more than 103° F., destroy- 

 ing as soon as distinct signs of the disease are shown. 

 Feed vegetable or animal charcoal, bisulphite of soda, 

 carbolic acid, or sulphate of iron to the healthy, and avoid 

 all suspected food, places, or even water which has run 

 near a diseased herd. All newly purchased pigs should 

 be placed at a safe distance in quarantine under separate 

 attendants until their health has been proved. 



TEXAN FEVEE. 



A specific fever, rising in the low, malarious grounds of 

 the States bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, and commu- 

 nicable to the cattle of the elevated lands of the same and 



