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OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISEASES OF PIGS. 
By J. STORRY, Pickering. 
In the course of my practice for upwards of a quarter of a cen- 
tury, I have had to attend numerous cases of varied disorders in 
pigs ; and I am happy to be able to say, I have generally been so 
successful in prescribing medicine and other treatment, that I have 
performed several astonishing cures, and therefore have given 
great satisfaction to my employers. Now, as The Veterinarian 
is a work published expressly for the purpose of extending a 
knowledge of the various simple and complex disorders incident 
to horses, horned cattle, sheep, &c., as well as for publishing the 
valuable strictures and experimental and practical remarks of the 
editors, and the numerous important communications from prac- 
titioners in various parts of this and other countries, I have fre- 
quently been surprised that no notice has been taken of the diseases 
and distempers to which pigs are liable. In the absence, therefore, 
of a more able pen on this subject, I beg to offer for your consi- 
deration a few cases, out of a great number, that have come under 
my notice, and been put under my care, with the symptoms, treat- 
ment, and cure of the same. 
The first case I shall record, happened several years ago. It 
was a fatal distemper among the pigs of Mr. Marshall, of East 
Newton, in the neighbourhood of Helmsley. He had about thirty 
pigs, some three, some four months old, all with the distemper, of 
which several had died before I was applied to. 
Symptoms . — A husky cough, disturbed respiration, heaving in 
the flank, and foaming at the mouth. 
Treatment . — Bled every pig, and gave cathartic and sedative 
medicines, consisting principally of sulph. magnes. with ol. ricini, 
veratrum, pulv. nit., & c. Every pig recovered. 
The case I have selected, of more recent date, is that of a sow 
which belonged to Mr. Matthew Beale, of Middleton, near Picker- 
ing. She had littered eleven young ones, and had dropped in 
milk fever. I applied ligatures to one of her ears, and opened 
some of the aural veins, and thereby got a sufficient quantity of 
blood. I then gave her sulph. mag. §iv, with ol. ricini Jiss. The 
next day she was a little better, and took some food. Medicine 
operated slowly. Gave cathartic enemata, and renewed the former 
dose. The third day she was much better, and from thence 
improved daily to a complete recovery, and brought up the whole 
litter with no loss. 
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