8WINE, THEIR DISEASES). 
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So far there has been but little success attending the treatment of these 
diseases, probably from the fact that the incubative stage of the disease 
was passed and the animals beyond the reach of remedial means before 
the owners were aware that the animals were attacked. In the treatment 
of the diseases of swine, we shall first describe fully the three principal 
forms of those malignant diseases termed hog cholera, and for which 
there are so many specifics advertised — some of them by men so ignorant 
as to call all distempers hog cholera, and prescribe identical treatment, 
for diseases that require entirely different remedies. 
Malignant and Contagious Diseases. 
There are three principal forms of malignant diseases, called hog 
cholera. The first is malignant epizootic catarrh, which in 1875 and 
1876 swept over Illinois, Missouri, and neighboring States, destroying 
vast numbers of swine ; next the disease noticed by Professor Kline, of 
England, and described as contagious pneumo-enteritis ; the third, anthrax 
and splenic fever and a form of intestinal fever closely allied to the last 
if not identical, and which Dr. Law designates as intestinal fever or hog 
cholera. 
Malignant Epizootic Catarrh. 
This disease, if it does not oi’iginate in filthy yards and putrid pens, ia 
amazingly developed there. The poison germs find a congenial home in 
the mucous membrane of such hogs, and in those whose skins are so 
dirty that the natural perspiratory acts cannot take place, so if perspira- 
tion be checked during the prevalence of this epidemic, or the swine be 
exposed to sudden changes or the chilly night air, it will surely predispose 
them to attacks. 
How to Know It. 
There is a short, hoarse cough, difficulty of breathing, with panting of 
the flanks. The head is held in a stretched and drooping position ; there 
is fever, a stiff, tottering gait, sometimes running at the nose, often 
efforts to vomit, generally constipation, but at times diarrhoea. In this 
form the disease is shown in the dead animal by inflammation of the 
lining membrane of the nose and upper part of the throat, thence to the 
windpipe and lungs, which are more or less solidified. 
A second form of this disease has a short cough, not so pronounced as 
In the first form, and there is less oppression in breathing; but there is 
more decided paralysis in the hind quarters and the gait is more tottering. 
There is at first constipation, followed by a profuse and fetid diarrhea 
