l’ALSY IN THE SWINE AND DOG. 
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and the treatment of many a disease of cattle and of sheep, for 
we have no right to sacrifice the property of our employers, nor 
are we called upon seriously and inconveniently to sacrifice our 
own. 
Swine. 
I have never seen a case of palsy in the hog, nor have I met 
with a satisfactory account of one. The French writers ou the 
subject say that it is principally referrible to low and marshy 
situations, or to bad or damaged food ; and that it is occasionally 
the punishment — not falling, where it should do, on the owner — 
for attempting to hasten the process of fattening by giving too 
stimulating food ; the habitual irritation of the intestinal canal 
being at length propagated to the spinal cord. Eric Viborg, 
who has seen much of the diseases of swine, counsels, according 
to Hurtrel D’Arboval, to give the animal more wholesome food 
and a dryer sty. If the fattening hog becomes constipated, he 
should have a purge of common salt, and should be afterwards 
drenched with common salt and gentian. These are the princi- 
pal medicines recommended by Eric Viborg. 
The Dog. 
Connected with Distemper . — This animal affords some inter- 
esting illustrations of the causes and treatment of palsy. It is 
not uncommon in the after stages of distemper. The nervous 
system shares in the debility which invariably accompanies ex- 
tensive and protracted inflammation of the mucous surfaces. 
When palsy is the consequence of distemper, it is usually accom- 
panied by chorea, and it is then generally, but not always, hope- 
less. Setons should be inserted in the poll, being then as nearly 
as possible to the commencement of the spinal cord. They 
should be well stimulated and worn long; and if these fail, a 
plaister composed of common pitch with a very small quantity 
of yellow wax and some powdered cantharides, and spread on 
sheep’s skin, should be placed over the whole of the lumbar 
and sacral regions, and extending half way down the thigh on 
either side. The bowels should be kept well opened, and that 
by mild aperients, in order that every source of irritation may be 
removed from the intestinal canal. Some mild and general 
tonic will likewise be useful, such as gentian and ginger, the 
bowels having been first properly attended to. The mildest and 
best aperient for the dog, in these and in almost all cases, consists 
of castor oil, syrup of buckthorn, and syrup of white poppies, 
in the proportions of three, two, and one. Calomel is altogether 
inadmissible. 
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