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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 
mal is choked to death in loss than an hour, and before hardly anydthei 
symptom has had time to manifest itself (oedema of the larynx). 
What to Do. • - 
The cheapest remedy with animals distinctly attacked, is to kill a, 
once, and bury deeply out of sight, to prevent contagion. If the animals 
are valuable, isolate them from all danger of spreading the contagion ; 
give two to three ounces of castor oil, and as soon as it operates, give 
twenty grains of nitrate of potash, and twenty grains nitrate of soda, — 
mixec^for a dose — two or three times a day. Give also powdered char- 
coal in the drink, and if the bowels are swollen and tender give twenty 
drops of turpentine in a little gruel, as may be needed. The prescription 
of M. Lubin, and one of the most valuable known is: 
No. 6. 
10 Grains powdered camphor, 
1 Drachm nitrate of potash, 
5 Grains calomel. 
Mix and give in a little gruel three times a day, omitting the calomel 
after the third dose. 
The local treatment should be attended to. Foment the swollen part 
with hot water saturated with copperas (sulphate of iron). If there is 
gangrene, saturate the surrounding tissues with turpentine and sw&et oil, 
and attend strictly to the general sanitary conditions of the hot'j'hhrl or 
place •where the animals, both sick and well are kept. ProfesSbr Wil- 
liams advises the use of chlorate of potash as superior to all other medi- 
cines. His prescription is : 
No. 7. 
2 Drachms chlorate of potash, 
XJPint water. 
Professor Turner, the well known Illinois scientist and extensive 
farmer, advises the following as having been successful with him as a 
preventive, and if taken in the early stages of the diarrhoea, as a cure : 
Re. & 
2 Lbs. flowers of sulphur. 
2 Lbs. sulphate of iron, 
2 Lbs. madder, 
K Lb. black antimony, 
H Lb. nitrate of potash, 
2 Oz. arsenic. 
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Mix with twelve gallons of slop, and give a pint to each hog ; this quan» 
tity being for 100 hogs. 
Our best word of advice is, if the affected hogs cannot be made to take 
the remedies in their food or drink, since it is a question of profit and 
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