Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-10-12
Rrom he n.l,imore sun.

From the Baltimore sun
The public attention has been for a long
time directed to the existence of o fearful ma
lady amongst hogs, under the above name.
1t has prevailed for more than a year in the
large distilleries of the West and South, a.
well as in the small pens of country farmers
in the East and North; il has committed seri-
Gus ravages in the Southern and Middle States,
and early in the spring / was called on by the
owner of Q large distillery here to attend to
his hogs, which were rapidly dying. went
at once to zee them, and obtained for exanlna
the blood of many of the hogs 10 perfect
health, for the purpose of COMPARISON WIN
that Of those an articuLO morris pn tne ao' u
dying.)
These examinations, care fully made, reveal
ed the fact of high indaInniacoly Oonuit'on
of the system, ss the su3Jolhed Analysis
Healthy Hog Blood-Clot firm, not large,
searIet coIored: solids, normal f5rin as 2:SS
POI Diseased 1,oSs Hog Blood-Clot not firm, but
large brown colored; solids less than in the
healthy fbrin as $50 per 1000.
The blood in each case was taken from the
arteries.
This condition of the blood evinced a high
degree of nfammatOry action, but did not
show in what particular organ or organs
structure or structures. the inflammation was
located. To discover this l made numerous
post norton examinations, and found, 1st
The brain, healthy: the heart do; the stomach
do; bowels, including the greater or lesser in
testines, do; kidneys, Co.; liver, do; melt
spleen, do, lungs intensely diseased; in the
upper part they were engorged with dark,
arumous, bruised looking blood, and in the
lower lobes the Inflammation had proceeded to
suffocation, being filed with purulent bloody
matter and entirely incapable of carrying on
the process of breathing. The left lung was
off Cd han ba ri nd in
every instance the Inflammation had proceed
ed TO a greater extent in the lower than in the
uDDer parts of the lung-in some cases the
DecuIiar structure of the lung could not be
seen, so entirely had it become Gisorganized.
In no cases were well defined Assesses found,
nor was the windpipe intlamed but short
distance from the seat of the diseased lung.
Symptoms-The first symptoms were lazi-
ness on the part of the animal affected, some
loss of appetite, a kind of husky grunt APP
preaching to a cough, sometimes slight purg-
ing of the bowels, and yellowish cOlOred
urine; then the animal would become more
weak and seem to be paralized in the small of
the back, totter about for short time, and
finally lay down and die.
The treatment was divided into two parts
prophylatic (preventiVe) and curative. With
a view to the first, the pens were scattered
over with plaster Of paris and water Stacked
lime while at the same time, they and the
troughs were washed with gas tar. The cur
ative treatment was he administration of soda
ash and borilla. There is some trouble in the
solution Of borilla, and on this account soda
ASH should always be used with it. About ten
grains of soda-ash and the same amount of
borilla should be given to each hog two or
three times daily, mixed in their TODD. This
should be given to the healthy as well as the
sick hogs. To the well il does no harm, to
the sick it is a successful remedy.
As in the human species, so in hOgs-in-
Examination of the lungs is most insdious dis
ease, going on to the destruction of the patient
before the mere symptoms give cause of alarm,
and in many instances hogs which appeared
healthy were yet seriously affected with lung
disease.
The above remedies were used on about
three thousand hogs, and in the utmost inten-
sity Of the disease. The number of their
deaths diminished seventy-fye per cent. on
the second day after administration, and in
short time the disease disappeared from the
locality
As soon as the hogs were manifestly sick
they were put in pens by themselves and sub
jected to the above treatment. OF these
sbOnt thirty per cent. recovered, whilst before
all died.
Causes.-It is disease of general atmos-
pheric origin, influenced by special, local, ex-
citing causes, such the sweating sickness,
black-death, cholera, and other epidenics,
which at different times have devastated, more
or less, all parts of the earth, and Of whose
intrinsic nature we know but very little. 1t is
not confined to distilleries, but has also proved
destructive in the country. Its not produced
by strychnine, or any vegetable or mineral
poison.
The disease attended with swollen jaws, the
proper name Of which is hog quinsy, prevail
ing in some parts of the State, has no connec-
ton with the above, and can be most success
fully treated by making missions over the
swelling, and then pouring in a small quantity
of salt and turpentine
should be obliged to persons throughout
the United States, who have observed this dis
ease, to examine blood and different organs,
and report to me the results; should any be
incapable of making an analysis of the blood.
will with pleasure furnish them with the
Instructions how to perform IT,
JAMES HIGGNs,
State Agricultural Chemist of Maryland.