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No. 13. 2 Founds fenugreek, powdered, 
2 Pounds anise seed, powdered, 
1 Pound gentian, powdered, 
2 Ounces carbonate of soda, 
2 Pounds chalk, powdered. 
Give a table-spoonful of this in the food, every time the sow is reel. 
Summary. 
- From what we have said the reader will easily perceive that we have 
not much faith iu remedial means in contagious diseases of swine. Tho 
same holds good with any animal when once the disease is pronounced, 
and of a malignant type — unless the animal be so valuable that it will 
pay to call a veterinary surgeon. Even then in the malignant forms of 
the diseases described, and which are known under the popular misnomer 
of “ Hog Cholera,” killing and burying is the cheapest and altogether 
the most humane. The danger of spreading ; the difficulty of isolation ; 
and the next to impossibility of treating a hog too sick to cat, but never 
too sick to bo contrary, or resist to the full extent of their power, and 
the ordinarily small cost cf swine per head should be well considered in 
the treatment of swine. Use proper discretion in treating them, but 
do not hesitate a moment in killing, when the disease is malignant, and 
in oi dinary case3 remember that if the hog will not take his physic 
kindly in his gruel, better let nature and good nursing perfect tho cure 
than to violently force medicine down. Please remember the value of 
good nursing in human patients. To reinforce this we may state the 
fact that in France, long continued experiments in hospitals, with many 
patients, treated under the various systems of medicine, a greater pro- 
portion recovered with no medicine and good, care and nursing, than did 
under medication with ordinary hospital care and nursing. This 
may not have been complimentary to tho hospital management, yet in no 
country in the world are they better or more conscientiously managed. 
The necessity or good nursing in the case of swine is no less imperative 
than in that of human. beings, and its good results are as manifest. 
