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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR., 
The disease is spending itself in the stomach and bowels. The animal 
arching its back and especially the loins from the intensity of the pain. 
The brain is often affected so there is partial or total blindness and 
aimless movements. So also the glands will be enlarged and sometimes 
scrofulous ulcers will show in different parts of the body. The dead ani- 
iinal shows the lining membrane of the intestines inflamed and degenerated. 
iTho spleen enlarged, dark, and soft; the liver diseased, and often water 
exudations in the chest and bellv. The duration in either form is from 
five to fifteen days. 
"What to Do. 
If the disease has progressed so as to show the latter symptoms we 
have described, kill, and bury the animal at once, and deeply. In any 
event sepai’ate the animals showing the slightest symptoms from the rest 
of the herd, and remove the well ones to comfortable and dry and well 
ventilated quarters, and give pure water and good, easily digested food. 
As soon as the first symptoms are discovered give an emetic as follows : 
No. 1. 15 to 20 Grains powdered white hellebore, 
H Pint milk. 
Mix for a full-grown hog, and let it drink ; if it will not, turn it down 
with a horn as previously described. This having vomited the hog, in a 
couple of hours after give two or three grains of tartar emetic, if the 
trouble is in the lungs ; if in the bowels, two or three grains of calomel ; 
either medicine to be given in the half of a roasted potato or apple if the 
animal will eat, or to be enveloped in tallow or lard and laid on the root 
of the tongue and the animal made to swallow. Repeat the dose twice a 
day until relief is obtained. According as the lungs or bowels are af- 
fected apply to the sore place the following blistering ointment, heating 
over a moderate fire, for half an hour and stirring to mix : 
No. 2. 1 Oz. powdered cantbarides, 
4 Oz. olive oil. 
Rub in well and repeat the application if no blister is drawn. If tho 
animal improves, give every day for a few days the following : 
No. 8. £0 Grains sulphato of iron, 
SO Grains carbonate of potash. 
This, when the lungs have been the seat of disease ; if in the bowels, 
omit the carbonate of potash. Professor Townsend thinks that in many 
cases the liver is torpid, and thus blood poisoning takes place. When 
