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carpal, or cannon. O — Small metacarpal. P, P — Sesamoid bones. Q, Q— « 
Phalanges. 1. Os suffraginis, or pastern bone. 2. Os coronal. 3. Os pedis. 
R — Pelvis. (Fore leg of pig. Phalanges 1, 2,3). 1. Ileum. 2. Pubis. 3. 
Ischium. S — Femur. T— Patella. {7— Tibia. V— Fibula. W— Hock. 1. 
Os calcis. 2. Astragalus. 8. Cuneiform magnum. 4. Cuneiform medium. 5. 
Cuneiform parvura. 6. Cuboid. 8, 6. Cubo cuneiform. X— Large metatarsal 
(Hind-leg of pig. Phalanges 1, 2, 3). T— Small metatarsal. Z— Head. 1. 
Inferior maxilla. 2. Superior maxilla. 8. Anterior maxilla. 4. Nasal bone. 
6. Molar. 6. Frontal. 7. Parietal. 8. Occipital. 9. Lachrymal. 10. Squa* 
mous-tempoid. 11. Petrous-tempoid. 
Difficulty in Administering Medicine. 
No class of farm animals are so difficult to treat in sickness as swine. 
The horse, the cow, and the sheep, may have medicine administered to 
them by an intelligent operator -with comparatively little difficulty. Not 
eo swine. They resist every effort with their utmost strength, and med- 
icine can only be forced down by main strength, the resistance itself, 
being, in nine cases out of ten more injurious, than the good the medicine 
may do. When it must be administered by the mouth, the best means 
we have ever found, is to place the hog in a narrow pen in which he can 
not turn round, put a slip noose around the upper jaw, turn the medicine 
— in the case of a drench — down from a horn, or when it may be admis- 
sible give it in the form of an injection. In the case of boluses they may 
be laid on the back of the tongue, next the palate, and the animal thus 
made to swallow. 
Good Nursing the Essential. 
For the reason that medicine is so difficult to administer, it is always 
best, when the hog will eat or drink to disguise the dose in some food or 
drink it likes. In fact our practice has always been, if medicine could 
not be so administered, to let good nursing and care be the chief depend- 
ence in bringing the animal safely through. 
In the case of those malignant forms of epidemic and contagious dis- 
eases which, under the common name of hog cholera, have so frequently 
scourged the West within the last few years, unless the affected animals 
are treated during the first or symptomatic stage, the only course to pur- 
sue is to isolate every diseased animal from the herd as soon as found, 
and remove the well animals to a separate place where they are not in 
danger, and above all where they cannot come in contact with other hogs ; 
then with such medicine as they will eat in food or drink trust to nature 
and good care to bring them safely through. 
