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the occurrence of the disease ; let them, at all events, desist from that 
rank and nasty mode of feeding, and turn to such as has been indicated. 
4. Let your patient fast for five or six hours, and then give, to a hog 
of average size — Epsom salts, two ounces, in a warm bran wash. This 
quantity is to be increased or diminished as the size may require. 
The above would suffice for a hog of 160 lbs. It should be previously 
mixed with a pint of warm water. This should be added to about half 
a gallon of warm bran wash. It will act as a gentle purgative. 
5. Give in every meal afterward — of flour of sulphur, one table- 
spoonful ; of nitre, as much as will cover a sixpence, for from three days 
to a week, according to the state of the disease. When you perceive 
the scabs begin to heal, the pustules to retreat, and the fiery sores to 
fade, you may pronounce your patient cured. But before that pleasing 
result will make its appearance, you will perceive an apparent increase of 
violence in all the symptoms — the last effort of the expiring malady, as 
it were, ere it finally yields to your care and skill. 
6. There are, however, some very obstinate cases of mange occasion- 
ally to be met with, which will not so readily be subdued. When the 
above mode of treatment has been put in practice for fourteen days, 
without effecting a cure, prepare the following: train oil, one pint; oil 
of tar, two drachms; spirits of turpentine, two drachms; naphtha, one 
drachm ; with flour of sulphur, as much as will form the above into the 
consistency of a thick paste. Rub the animal, previously washed, with 
this mixture — let no portion of the hide escape you. Keep the hog dry 
and warm after this application, and suffer it to remain on his skin three 
entire days. On the fourth day, wash him once more with soft soap, 
adding a small quantity of soda to the water. Dry the animal well 
afterward, and sutler him to remain as he is, having again changed his 
bedding, for a day or so : continue the sulphur and nitre as before. I 
have never known any case of mange, however obstiuate, that would 
not, sooner or later, give way before this mode of treatment. 
7. Your patient being convalescent, whitewash the sty ; fumigate it, 
by placing a little chloride of lime in a cup, or other vessel, and pouring 
a little vitriol upon it. In the absence of vitriol, however, boiling water 
will answer nearly as well. 
Finally, all mercurial applications are, as much as possible, to be 
avoided ; but, above every thing, avoid the use of ointments composed 
of hellebore, corrosive sublimate, or tobacco-water, or, in short, any 
poisonous ingredient whatever ; very few cures have ever been effected 
by the use of these so-called remedies, but very many deaths have re- 
sulted from their adoption. 
Staggers, caused by excess of blood to the head ; bleed freely from 
behind the ears, and purge. 
Crackings will sometimes appear on the skin of a hog, especially 
about the root of the ears and tail, and at the flanks. These are not 
at all to be confounded with mauge, never resulting from any thing but 
exposure to extremes of temperature, without the suffering animal being 
able to avail himself of such protections as, in a state of nature, instinct 
would have induced him to adopt. They are peculiarly troublesome in 
the heats of summer, if the hog be exposed to a hot sun for any length 
