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DESQUAMATION OF THE SKIN OF A HOG. 
other diseases, such as dyers or phthisis pulmonalis, dropsy, 
disease of the heart. 
In one case, where the owner, at the suggestion of some old 
wives and a cow-doctor, had given 4 lbs. of Epsom salts in doses 
of a pound at a time, a bottle of castor oil, and a bottle of whale 
oil, and all without moving the bowels, they called me in, and, 
without confessing what they had been giving, I administered 
at one dose 2 lbs. more of the salts, and 40 drops of croton oil in 
each pound, and all this without effect. The cow had been now 
down for a week without shewing any symptoms of rising, and 
was evidently sinking fast. I then had recourse to Mr. Bracy 
Clark’s tincture of pimento with whisky, administered every two 
hours ; and after she had taken a bottle and a half of whisky and 
eight ounces of the pimento, and all in thirty-six hours, she got 
upon her legs, and continued standing for several days. The 
whisky was continued at intervals, so as not to permit extreme 
depression from taking place, which was sadly threatened. The 
only apparent consequence of all the physic was that the dung 
was a little more pultaceous on the third day after her getting up. 
A curious feature in this case, and which seemed to favour the 
opinion of those who contend that this affection is a disease of 
the nervous system, is the fact that the cow lost all power over 
one of her hind legs, which she trailed after her for upwards of 
two months. 
SINGULAR DESQUAMATION OF THE SKIN OF A 
HOG. 
Communicated by Mr. J. Sherwood, V.S, t Sittingbourne. 
The subject of our story is a hog, at the Abbey-farm, Faver- 
sham, the property of Charles Hilton, Esq. A few weeks ago 
the skin became hard on each side, about nine or ten inches 
from the spine; it has since kept gradually separating towards 
the centre of the spine from the shoulder to the insertion of the 
tail. The bailiff has cut off portions from time to time of the 
weight of nearly ten pounds, in order to make the load with 
which the animal was encumbered the lighter; until the last 
week, when the hog lay down, and, after taking his rest with his 
brethren (for he fed and looked as well as the rest, with the ex- 
ception of the load on his back), he got up and left the substance 
behind him. It consisted of the entire skin, as far as it had 
sloughed, with about two inches of adeps adhering to it in the 
middle, getting gradually thinner towards the sides, and weigh- 
