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SMALL POX IN PIGS. 
Observation .—The results of this experiment appear most strik¬ 
ing; but still, when we come to reason upon them, how can it be 
otherwise] The shoe is laid evenly upon the foot up to the heels: 
unless the iron gives way from its attachments, or the horn at the 
quarters becomes crumbled under the pressure, how can descent at 
the heels take place, as the heels of the foot themselves act as per¬ 
fect wedges to prevent it ] 
[To be continued.] 
SMALL POX IN PIGS. 
By Mr. BOUGHTON, V.S., Hounslow. 
Sir,— PERHAPS I ought to apologise for troubling you with this; 
but the anxiety shewn by you to extend, as far as possible, any in¬ 
formation likely to be useful, has emboldened me to hope you may 
find a spare corner for it, and consider it not unworthy the atten¬ 
tion of the veterinary profession, although relating to an animal 
that one of our veterinary writers has said, “he would rather have 
to doctor the devil than doctor a pig;” but it is not so much the 
animal as the disease I have found him suffering from, that has in¬ 
duced me to consider it may not be uninteresting to many of your 
readers, particularly as a considerable portion of the alarm created 
by the breaking out of variola among sheep still exists in the minds 
of many flock-masters. 
Rather more than two months since I was called in to see some 
pigs at Hanworth Park, the seat of Henry Perkins, Esq., and was 
told they were very dull and would not eat, and were lame. I very 
naturally expected to find them suffering from eczema epizootica, 
which has been very prevalent all around here in cattle, sheep, 
and pigs; but there were no symptoms of that about them. They 
were very dull and little inclined to move, and were evidently 
suffering from fever. They drank very freely, but were quite in¬ 
different about taking their ordinary food, preferring cold thin food 
to any thing warm and thick. They continued much the same for 
about a week or ten days, except that the fever kept increasing, 
and then they began to shew symptoms of swelling in their legs; 
their heads also became swollen, and an eruption was observed 
making its appearance all over the bodies of those first taken; not 
so easily seen upon the dark parts of their bodies, but very readily 
felt, and perfectly visible upon the lighter parts of their skins. It 
resembled in every particular the distinct form of variola in the 
sheep ; and as the eruption progressed so did every peculiarity be- 
