SWINE, THEIR DISEASES. 
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the attack commences with copious and dark discharges from the bowels, 
he recommends to give at once : # - 
i No. 4. 20 Grains podopbylUn. 
2 Drachms bicarbonate of soda. 
Or, if constipation be present : 
No. 6. 1 Ounce castor oil, 
1 Drachm oil of turpentine. 
Both to be given in a pint of milk or grueL 
Intestinal “Hog Cholera.”. 
In relation to this disease, undoubtedly analogous to the one last de- 
scribed, Dr. James Law thinks it is a specific contagious fever of swine, 
attended by congestion, exudation, blood extravasation, and ulceration of 
the membrane of the stomach and bowels. That is, fetid diarrhoea, gen- 
eral heat and redness of the surface, and on the skin and mucous mem- 
brane spots and patches of a scarlet, purple or black color. It is fatal in 
from one to six days, or ends in a tedious, uncertain recovery. 
How to Know It. 
Incubation ranges from a week to a fortnight in cold weather, to three 
days in warm. It is followed by shivering, dullness, prostration, hiding 
under the litter, unwillingness to rise, hot, dry snout, sunken eyes, un- 
steady gait behind, impaired or lost appetite, ardent thirst, increased 
temperature (103 degrees to 105 degrees F.), and pulse. With the oc- 
currence of heat and soreness of the skin, it is suffused with red patches 
and black spots, the former disappearing on pressure, the latter not. 
The tongue is thickly furred, the pulse small, weak and rapid, the breath- 
ing accelerated and a hard, dry cough is frequont. Sickness and vomiting 
may be present, the animal grunts or screams if the belly is bandied, the 
bowels may be costive throughout, but more commonly they become 
relaxed about the third day and an exhausting foetid diarrhoea ensues. 
Lymph and blood may pass with the dung. Before death the patient 
losos control of the hind limbs, and is often sunk in complete stupor, with 
muscular trembling, jerking, and copious and involuntary motions of the 
bowels. 
Causes. 
It is mainly propagated by contagion, though faults in diet and man- 
agement serve to develop it. The infection is virulent, and may, it 
