598 EPIZOOTIC PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN HOGS. 
tuces and chicory, well cut up. The animals were let out for a 
little while in the evening after the sun was set. This treatment 
preserved many of the hogs, and I had very few deaths after¬ 
wards. 
On the first attack of the disease, I tried to lower it by large 
bleedings, which I obtained by making a section of the inferior 
sacro-coccygean arteries and veins. When I did not obtain a 
depletion sufficiently abundant by this operation, I amputated 
the tail, and by that means I always attained my end. I gave 
them for drink a decoction of borage, mallows, and lettuces, which 
they eagerly drank, and took care to add to it a little vinegar or 
ryemeal. If it was possible, I had them put in a hot bath ; I 
also inserted a seton covered with blistering ointment underneath 
the chest. If this treatment had not the effect of arresting the 
progress of the disease, I administered camphorated and laxative 
drinks ; and if the symptoms did not then diminish, death was 
not far off: but their intensity frequently abated, and the termi¬ 
nation was favourable. It is well known that the obstinate cha¬ 
racter of pigs requires that they should be held down before a 
drink can be administered to them. I wished to do so with some 
of these ; but as soon as they were thrown on the ground, they 
died under our hands. I am certain that, if I had not thus 
thrown them, their existence would have been prolonged for 
twenty-four or thirty hours, and some of them would probably 
have recovered. This is a warning for all veterinarians, in similar 
cases, to limit themselves to such bleedings and drenching drinks 
as can be accomplished without much force. 
Journal de Med. Vet. 
^porting Apartment* 
Doncaster , Wednesday , September 2 6th, 1832. 
Two-year old Produce Stakes of 100 Sovereigns, each h. ft. 
colts 8 st.5 lb. and fillies 8 st. 3 lb. Red House inn, 14 Subs. 
Duke of Leeds’ b. c. by Lottery, out of Rhodocantha. 1 
Mr. Houldsworth’s ch. f. Fidelity, by Whisker . 2 
Hon. E.Petre’s b. f. by Whisker, out of Matilda.,... 3 
Lord Kelbourne’s ch. f. by Jock, out of Purity. 4 
7 to 4 agst. Rhodocantha, who made all the running, and won, by a good 
length, a severe race for the second place. The winner was very cleverly ridden 
by Templeman. 
The Great St. Leger Stakes of 50 Sovereigns, each h ft, 
for three-year old colts 8 st. 6 lb. and fillies 8 st. 3 lb.; St. 
Leger Course, 72 Subs. 
Mr. Gully’s ch. c. Margrave, by Muley.. I 
Mr. R. Bulkley’s b. c. Birdcatcher, by St. Patrick.. 2 
The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. Powlett’s gr. f. by 
Figaro (J. Holmes) ; Mr. Skipsey’s b. c. Physician (H. Edwards); Mr. Ed- 
