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THE VETERINARIAN, APRIL 1, 1879. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.—C iceeo. 
PIG TYPHOID, OR SWINE PLAGUE. 
Few diseases can claim so many titles as the affection 
which has for many years been well known as a fatal one 
among swine, under the various names of “ hog cholera/’ 
“ soldier,” “ purples,” “ red disease,” “ swine plague,” &c. 
Dr. Budd, some fourteen years ago, investigated the swine 
disease, and came to the conclusion that it most resembled 
enteric fever of man, and the term typhoid fever of swine 
has of late years been very generally adopted in this country 
to the exclusion of other names for the disease. Our col¬ 
league, Professor Axe, recently wrote in our pages on the 
subject of his investigations, and his conclusions as to the 
nature of the disease were similar to those which Dr. Budd 
arrived at. Dr. Klein, however, found that the disease of the 
pig differs in several important anatomical points from 
typhoid of man, and according to his views the malady is 
one proper to the pig, and may he correctly designated 
pneumo-enteritis. In the Laiicet of March 15th the ques¬ 
tion of the proper name to be given to the disease is 
discussed, and we quote from the article the following re¬ 
marks, which are very pertinent to the subject. The article 
is headed Swine Plague: 
“ Scarcely a day now passes in which we do not find a 
notice in the papers regarding outbreaks of f typhoid fever ’ 
in swine in different parts of the country, and the peremptory 
slaughter of the diseased creatures. This publicity is due, 
chiefly, to a recent order of the Veterinary Department of 
the Privy Council, in which the disorder is recognised as a 
contagious and destructive malady, for the suppression of 
which sanitary measures are necessary. Not that it is at all 
a new disease. On the contrary, it appears to have been in 
existence for a very long time, though its individuality has 
been rather obscured by the multiplicity of names it has 
