SWINE, THEIR DISEASE!. 
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veterinarian, has proved to be due to a minute vegetable organism, 
( bacillus ) found in the serous fluids, and tissues of animals iufected. 
M. Roche Lubin, a French veterinary authority says the disease will dis- 
appear if proper sanitary means are used, protection from the sun and 
rain, well ventilated quarters, and clean bedding, often renewed, with 
pure water and wholesome food. We have been thus particular in quot- 
ing, to intensify what we have repeatedly said, cleanliness and care. 
How to Know It. 
There are two principal symptomatic forms which are important to bo 
noticed, as follows : 
The Erysipelatous Form. 
The animal at first is dull, loses his appetite, lies down and moves 
unwillingly. He hangs his head, and sometimes makes efforts to vomit. 
The bowels at this- time are generally constipated, the excrement being 
hard and dai’k. colored ; cough and difficult urination. 
The next day or in a few hours, even, the characteristic symptom of 
the disease shows itself. This consists in the appearance of dark red or 
purple blotches, passing into a bluish-black color. Once seen, they 
cannot be mistaken. Their most frequent seats are the ears, throat, 
neck, breast and inside the fore legs. If he is a white hog the discolora- 
tions are very visible. With these there is often a discharge fiom the 
nose of a dark purple fluid. Soon his breathing becomes panting and 
labored ; he is palsied in his hind quarters, and if he is driven up runs 
reeling with his hind legs and his head dropped to the ground. At this 
stage a fetid diarrhoea sometimes sets in. The fatal termination is reached 
in one or three days. 
The Form with Malignant Sore Throat. 
The ociierd symptoms at the commencement are the same ; and the 
appearance of the throat has that same deep red, passing into dark puipie 
hue, which we have just noticed in the erysipelatous variety. But the 
obstructions to the functions of breathing and swallowing naturally pro-* 
duce a train of characteristic symptoms not seen in the former case. 
There are attempts to vomit, difficulty in swallowing, and labored breath- 
ing from the first, the sensation of choking being so distressing that the 
animal will sit on its haunches, like a dog, gasping for breath, opening 
its mouth wide, and protruding a livid and swollen tongue. Sometime# 
the swelling about the larynx is so sudden and considerable that the an* 
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