Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-17

EDITORS 81 The Patriot Permit me through
the columns Of your paper, to call the attention Of
the hog raissrs Of the country, to very fatal d.
sease prevailing among the hogs in this immediate
vicinity. For the last or months have occa-
sOnaly noticed 10 the papers, accounts of what is
called "hog cholera" The disease is prevailing
fatally as learn, at this time. in Indiana, Ken
lucky and several sections Of Tennessee. have
expected some gentleman qualified for the task,
would. before Oh 2, have examined and reported its
pathology, origin, treatment, &c. Having, how
ever seen nothing as yet. in reference to the true
character of the disease proceed to detail the
result Of some three or four examination recently
made by myself.
The examinations made by request, on the
farm of my friend and ueighbor, Mr. Benjamin
| HYDE who has lost 10 the last four or five weeks
! 215 or 220 hogs. He was impressed with the be-
lief that they poisoned. The first one ez-
amined had been mOping about and lingering some
three weeks, and refusing take food, had become
quite gauut and emaciated, scarcely able to put ore
foot before the other. This hog we killed, and
upon opening him found the lungs mass OF disease.
There were more than dozen bols (vomicsl upon
the luugs, from the size of walnut 70 that of a
small pea; most of them filed with a whitish,
creamlike matter, (pus) very offensive to the smell.
Upon cutting into the substance Of the lungs, mat
tr to exude freely fom them, also
from the air (bronchial) tubes. This hog in COM
mon with many others, Rad been observed to cough
and vomit whitish substance, which evident
lyl pus. The liver and other abdominal organs
were healthy. The mesenteric glands were en-
larged, and gave some evidence of disease
The second one examined had died the over
night. Lungs pretty much in the same condition
as the Other-no diseased appearances detected
elsewhere.
The third one, examined some 10 or 90 minutes
after DEATH did not exhibit as much apparent dis
ease Of the lungs. There were no hollis, as seen
in the other two cases. But the lungs had &C
quired the weight and consstence of the liver;
and of them was varegated in color, with
black (meIsnOss) and pink, not unlike marble.
The substance of the lung, when cut into, ex-
hibited marks of high inflammation, with pus in
the air tubes.
Young Mr. Hyde examined more than 20 afteI
this, and in every instance, he reports the lungs
prominently diseased.
Mr. HYDE informs that early in the Spring
March and April he noticed his hogs coughing
unusually, especially in the morning at feediDs
time, frequently throwing up a whitisb matter. Al
the Summer us1ered in and the weather became
warm, first one and then another refused to eat
J and in a short time would be seized with p1Tgin.
| with occasional vomiting, the never falling bar
5 biugcr of DEATH He does not think single on
G recovered after the purging commenced. The
lived usually but few days after the superventio
70 of these symptoms, which, suppose, originate
n the rIisnomer Hog Cholera"
+ Cause of the DiseaSe.-The cause of this di:
: ease, like that of all others, is involved in doub
aud obscurity though evidently of atmospheric OF
igin. These hogs he'd been confined to a sing.
= pasture, of some so of low, fat ground, ha
: slept crowded together upon the beds, durin
S a severe and protracted Winter and Spring-c
l., cumstances which were favorable for the deteTio
:; alton of the atmosphere, and for the generation
O noxious and poisonous gases. Had they been r,
moved as soon the cough appeared among then
to another atmosphere and upon other rang,
: grounds am of opinion that the disease woul
: would have disappeared.
Il Is it con.agiousS l think not. At my sugge
ton the small remnant of these hogs dispersed
. and permitted to run at large, mixing freely vii
the hogs OF the observation-disclosures others hav
taken it.
9 Treatment 1 have none to suggest, after Il
e the full development of the disease. As prophyla
It tic or preventive measures / would suggest, th
n not too many be crowded together-that ever
stock raiser notice bis hogs loosely salt them free
and should cough appear among them, change the
i range grounds immediately, and compel them
3 occupy new beds in a different atmosphere.
r Very resp ctiuly,
d j. Z MANLOVE
n Whites Creek, Davidson CO., Tenn. Sept. l5, 1856