Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-10-01
turner's Column.
HOG CHOLERA ANDITs REMEDY.

its fearful ravages during the present.
In the West its devastations have been
remarkably extensive; and in our State
it has made its appearance in Montgom-
cry county to the great loss of some of
our farmers In Tennessee, it has APP
peared in Carol county, and in Virginia
in Kanhawa county. In Ohio ana Ken
lucky the losses are great, but in Indi-
ana, the disease appears to sweep like
pestilence.
In Gibson county, in that State, the
Princeton Clarion says: 1.-THE heaviest
hog raisers have lost from three-fourths
to four-tifths of their stock. Every pub
lie road seems to be strong with. the
stencil from the rotten carcasses left to
moulder and decay near them; and some
of the branches are running greasy wa
ter, where the carcasses have been thrown
in, as convenient place to get rid of
them" Various remedies have been
proposed, and some are said to have been
successfully used; correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette prescribes one pint of
wood ashes and one table spoonful of
copperas mixed with meal and bran a
writer in the Louisville Courier recon-
mends one or two quarts of corn boiled
in ashes; and, if the animal be past eat
ing, to mix up some Tar and water and
pour down its throat; whilst third party
gives, in the Ohio Cultivator, the recipe
of quart of sweet milk and three or
four pods red peppers boiled together
and given warm.
But the best and surest cure, is that
effected by the use of remedy men
toned in the following which we haze
from the Baltimore Sun of last year,
where it was first published by the dis
coverer, DR., James Higgins, late State
Agricultural Chemist:
The public attention has been for a
long time directed to the existence of a
fearful malady amongst hogs under the
above name. 1t has prevailed for more
than year in the large distilleries of
the West and South, as wellin the small
pens of the country farmers in the East
and North +; it has committed serious
ravages in the southern and middle
States and early in the Spring | was
called on by the owner of large dis
tlllery here to attend to his hogs which
were rapidly dying / went at once to
see them, and obtained for examination
the blood of many of the hogs in perfect
health for the purpose of comparison
with that of those IN aTiculo morris,
Gin The act Of dying) These examine
tons, carefully made, revealed the fact
of high inaamatory condition of the
system, as the subjoined analysis shows
Healthy Hog Blood Clot-frm, not
large; scarlet colored solids, normal
tibrin as 2. 33 per 900.
Diseased Hog Blood-not firm but
large brown colored; solids less than
in the healthy fbrin as 500 per 1 900 |
The blood in each case was taken from
the arteries
This condition of the blood cvinced
high degree of inAamatory action, but
did not show in what particular organ or
organs, structure or structures, the inha-
nation was located. To discover this |
made numerous post morton examine
tons, and found, LIST: The brain healthy:
the heart, do; stomach, do; bowels, in &
GLIDING the greater or lesser intestines,
do; kidneys, do; liver, do; melt or
spleen, do; lungs, intensely diseased in
the upper part they were engorged with
dark, grumous, bruised-looking blood.
and in the lower lobes the inflammation
had proceeded to suffocation, being filled
with purulent bloody matter, and entire
ly incapable of carrying on the process
of breathing. The left lung was gem
orally more effected than the right, and !
In every instance the inflammation had !
proceeded to a greater extent in the lower
than IN the upper parts of the lung-in
some cases the peculiar structure Of the /
lung could not be seen; SO entirely had
1t become disorganized In no eases
were well defined abcesses found. nor was
the windpipe inhamed but short dis
lance from the seat of the diseased lung.
Symptoms. The first symptoms were
a lazincss on the part of the animal af-
iected, some loss of appetite, kind of
husky grunt approaching to cough.
sometimes slight purging of the bow
els, and yellowish colored urine then
the animal would become more weak and
seem to be paralyzed in the small of the
back, totter about for short time and
finally lie down and die.
The treatment was divided into two
parts-phophylactic (prcventive) and Gu
rative. With 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 trourhs
were washed with gas tar. The curative
treatment was the administration of soda
ash and barilla.
There is some trouble in the solution
Of barilla, and on this account soda-ash
should always be used with it. About
ten grains of soda-ash and the same
amount of barilla should be given to each
hog two or three times daily, mixed in
their food. This should be given to the
healthy as well as the sick hogs. To
the well 1t does no harm to the sick it
Is successful remedy As in the human ,
species, so in hogs-inflamatio of the I
lungs is most insidious disease. going
at once to the destruction Of the patient
before the mere symptoms give cause of
alarm, and in many instances hogs which
appeared healthy yet were seriously af-
fected with lung inflammation.
The above remedies we're used in
about three thousand hogs, and in the