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inward, involving the windpipe and gullet, causing difficulty of breathing 
and swallowing, and at length death in convulsions through suffocation. 
Occasionally the true apoplectic or splenic form of charbon appears, and 
also the variety which attacks the tongue and mouth, both acute and 
quickly fatal, the apoplectic form often killing almost instantly. The 
flesh of all animals dying of any form of this disease, as previously 
stated, is poisonous, and the blood and discharges capable not only of 
spreading the disease among others of the same species, but also, if im 
oculated into the human system, of bringing on that mortal malady, 
“malignant pustule.” The treatment, if treatment for so fearful and 
fatal a disease may be allowed, should be essentially the same as that 
prescribed in contagious pneumo-enteritis. As a preventive the recipe of 
Prof. Turner may be used. We advise to give medicine if only early 
symptoms be observed, but if animals be distinctly attacked to kill imme- 
diately, bury out of sight, and disinfect thoroughly. 
Inflammatory Diseases. 
Swine are from their nature, and the usual manner in which they are 
kept, quite subject to coughs, colds, quinsy, and inflammatory diseases, 
especially of the lungs. 
Quinsy, or Strangles. 
This is a disease quite common and fatal. It is an imflammation of tka 
glands of the throat, (tonsils) and often kills quickly through suffocation. 
If in feeding them there be found difficulty in swallowing, or protrusion 
of the tongue, and slavering from the mouth, and if there be a swelling 
under the neck and lower jaw, lose no time, cast the pig so he may be 
held firmly, and with a lancet or sharp knife, scarifying the skin of the 
throat deep enough to draw blood freely. Foment the parts with cloths 
wet with hot water and partially wrung out, repeatedly applied to induce 
bleeding, and reduce the inflammation, while an assistant prepares th® 
following injection : 
No. 9 . 4 Oz. sulphate of magnesia, 
2 Drachms oil of turpentine, 
>« Pint soap suds. 
Mix. 
With a feather fastened to a small rod, the hog’s mouth being held open, 
ewab the tonsils and inside of the throat as far as can be reached, with 
equal parts of lard oil and turpentine, or if the hog will eat, give dose* 
of two tea-spoonfuls each in a pint of gruel. 
