6 WINE, THEIR DISEASES. 
Bising of the Lights. 
This is the name applied to an ordinary cold. To cure this, keep the 
animal warm, feed well, and rub mustard, moistened with vinegar, on 
the throat and chest. If it does not yield, give an ounce of tar daily, oy 
putting a slip noose over the snout, opening the mouth, and placing the 
tar well back on the tongue with a narrow wooden paddle. 
Pneumonia. 
The symptoms of inflammation of the lungs are, quick and laborious 
breathing, loss of appetite, shivering of body and limbs, more or less 
severe cough ; and the animal will not eat. The remedy is to keep the 
animal thoroughly warm and quiet. Rub the preparation of mustard and 
vinegar cn the chest, and give internally, 
No. 10. 2 Drachms nitrate of potash, 
2 Drachms bisulptiate of soda. 
Mix in a pint of gruel if the animal will eat. If not turn down from & 
horn. 
Catarrh in the Head, 
Commonly called snuffles. Give the animal a clean, dry, warm pen, and 
feed and water well ; soft food being preferable. 
Disease of the Skin. 
Swine are essentially liable to diseases of the skin, when kept in con- 
finement, unless pains be taken to do for them what they cannot do for 
themselves, except where they have their liberty. 
Measles.’ 
Measles in swine have nothing in common with the disease of the same 
name in the human subject. The name is given to a parasitic affection, oc- 
casioned by the hog taking the eggs of the tapeworm, either in grazing, 
where they have been dropped with the excrement of the dog, or from 
. feeding on pastures manured with human excrement. These eggs hatch 
and work their way into the tissues and become encysted, and if the pork 
of such animals is eaten, insufficiently cooked to destroy them, by man, 
they transfer the tapeworm. In fact, it is not certain that ordinary cook- 
ing does destroy all, therefore it is never safe to eat measly pork. The 
appearance of tho pork is owing to the presence of minute cysts , the size 
of grains of barley, distributed through the muscular and other tissuos. 
