COCKLEBUES AS POISONOUS PLANTS 7 
At the time of feeding, 9 a. m., the pig's temperature was 101.3° F. 
and respiration 28. At 8 p. m. the temperature was 102, respiration 
32. No symptoms appeared during the day. On the morning of 
June 10 the temperature was 100.6° F., respiration 25, and at 8 p. m. 
the temperature was 101.3°, respiration 28. During the day the 
animal was given grass and bran and showed no symptoms of illness. 
On June 11, at 6.15 a. m., the pig was walking about in her pen, 
frothing at the mouth, and had been vomiting. Her temperature at 
6.18 was 101.4° F., respiration 26. The animal was weak, and at 
6.30 she lay down and then got up and walked about the pen in 
an uneasy manner. At 7.20 she was getting weaker and tottered 
when attempting to walk. At 8.20 a. m. the temperature was 97° F., 
respiration 28. At 8.30 the temperature was 97.3°. The animal was 
lyino- down with her forefeet drawn up below her jaws. She was 
gasping for breath and somewhat salivated. The legs were trem- 
bling and the respiration spasmodic. At 8.35 a. m. the temperature 
was 96.1°, respiration 44. The animal continued to gasp, the body 
moving in a jerky and trembling fashion and occasionally emitted 
loud grunts. At 8.40 a. m. the temperature was 95.3°. The move- 
ments of the legs and the gasps became more continuous. At 9.03 
the temperature was 95.7° F., the animal continually gasping, and 
she died at 9.05 a. m. 
Plate III, Figures 1 and 2, show her condition at 8.20 and 8.25 
a. m. 
In the autopsy the fundus portion of the stomach showed extreme 
congestion. There was slight congestion in the duodenum and in the 
cecum. The liver was dark and well filled with blood, but it was not 
noted, as, in some other cases, that the bile was abnormal. There 
was some congestion in the abdominal lymph glands. 
This animal may be considered typical in the symptoms and 
rapidity with which the symptoms developed, although the autopsy 
was not so characteristic as in some other cases. 
The lesions, as shown in the microscopic study, were typical in 
every respect. 
DISCUSSION AND GENERAL CONCLUSIONS 
SYMPTOMS IN PIGS 
The first symptom noted in poisoned pigs, ordinarily, was depres- 
sion. This was accompanied in most cases with nausea which fre- 
quently resulted in continued vomiting. As the sickness progressed 
the animals became so weak as to be unable to stand. In those 
that were very sick the respiration became labored, the animals fre- 
quently gasping for breath. The pulse became rapid and weak. In 
some cases there were spasmodic movements of the body. Oc- 
casionally the animals moved their legs in what might be described 
as running movements. Sometimes, however, death resulted without 
these spasmodic movements. The appearance of sick animals is 
shown in the pictures of pig 18, Plate III, Figures 1 and 2, and in 
the series of pictures of pig 21, in Plate IV, Figures 1, 2, and 3. 
