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is supposed, bo communicated by the wind, and is with difficulty de- 
stroyed in bog-pens, fodder, bedding and other articles of contact. 
What to Do. f 
Treatment should not be permissible, unless in a constantly disinfected 
atmosphere. Feed barley or rye, or in case these raise the fever, corn 
starch made with boiling water ; give to drink fvcsh cool water, slightly 
acidulated with sulphuric acid. For the early constipation give a mild* 
laxative (castor oil, rhubarb), and injections of warm water, to be fol- 
lowed up with nitrate of potassa and bisulphate of soda, of each 20 grains 
at a dose. If the patient survives the first few days and shows signs of 
ulceration of the bowels, by bloody dung, or tenderness of the belly, give 
oil of turpentine fifteen to twenty drops night and morning. Follow up 
•with tonics and careful, soft feeding. 
Prevention. 
Kill and bury the diseased ; thoroughly disinfect all they have come in 
contact with ; watch the survivors for the first sign of illness, test all sus- 
picious subjects by means of a clinical thermometer introduced in the 
rectum, and separate from the herd if it shows 103 or more degrees Far- 
anheit. And as soon as distinct signs of the disease are shown kill and 
bury deep. Feed vegetable or animal charcoal, bisulphate of soda, car- 
bolio acid or sulphate of iron to the healthy swine, and avoid all suspected 
food or places, or even water which has run near a diseased herd. All 
newly purchased pigs should be placed at a safe distance in quarantine, 
under separate attendants, until their health has been surely established 
as sound. 
Contagious Pneumo-enteritis. 
This disease known commonly also as “hog cholera,” “purple,” “blue 
disease, ’’etc., is a contagious inflammation of the lungs and bowels, accom- 
panied with red and purple blotches of the skin, the last described being 
one of relative forms of this disease. 
Its Origin, 
It is supposed to be caused by extremes of temperature and wet seasons, 
feeding on low or swampy soils, impure water, filthy feeding pens. 
Whether these causes originate the disease or not they incline the system 
to infections from the subtle poison which Dr. Klein, an eminent English 
