The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-14

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your doctor and ask what i. good
for pneumonia, and. II YOU can
riye the medicine without fright
ening or hurting the hog, give 1t
to him. Avoid giving calomel.
for il is difficult to furnish d hog
with artificial teeth. As a homeo-
pathic treatment ! would recon-
mend Gelsemltm S~emPerrirtns IN
the first stages Of the disease, three
OF four drops IN q little watereyery
hour. If the fever IS high give
0c0niium in the same way. After
a day or two give phosphorus and
brvonia, or sulphur and bryonia al
ternatelv, every two or three hours,
three or four drops IN some water
for a dose not handle the hog un
less he is very gentle.
But the most simple and best
remedy IS t~urpentlne. If IL can be
given without strangllng the hog.
1t should be rubbed on the chest
as we'll as given inwardly, by mix
ing with a little milk OF on an ear
Of corn. 1t is kept by nearly ev-
cry family. 1t enters the system
freely. and IS, beyond all doubt,
the universal remedy.
MORE MYSTERIES ABOUT HOG Ma
LARA.
1t is a singular phenomenon III
human nature to do what is wrong
contrary to our judgment. Aft
or the hog malaria had sifted my
drove of hogs, and left me twenty
five as good as there are IN the Uni
ted States to raise from, | would
buy more, and now the consequence
is before me. Out of twenty hogs
| bought, two have died, two have
been killed partly for examination,
two have been very low with mala-
ria, but are getting well, and some
few more will have to undergo
medical treatment soon. Not feel
ing very safe in keeping these hogs
until next year, | concluded to fat
ten them this fall. One of them
did apparently better than its asso-
c%iates, ~fattening fast, until one day
it had a severe attack of pneumo-
MIA. 1t was turned out of the pen
Immediately. 1t crawled under q
barn floor, | thought to die. 1t
came out Of its hidden place in a
few days, apparently recovering,
but it had another attack in about
a week and died.
The next was a young male hog.
1t changed about for nearly a
month, at times very sick, and then
again apparently well, when all at
once the whole skin Of the body
turned to a deep red. 1t also re
covered of this stage, apparently, |
but died in a few days after. The
lungs were partly hepatized. No
medicine was given.
| killed one of the lot about two
weeks ago, which had been cough
ing for some time, but otherwise
doing well. A post mortem exam
nation revealed the following
The lungs were somewhat inham-
ed, and about three inches from the
lower part of the left lung was a
place an inch long ana one-half an
inch wide, where the air vessels had
given way. The cavity was filled
with air, and through the thin skin
could be seen the formation Of pus.
the beginning of hog malaria.
About a week ago another one of
the same lot was killed. 1t had at
the time the so-called thumps. An
examination proved the following
The lungs were very much enlarg-
ed, and the outside as uneven as
the bark of a blackjack tree. When
the lungs were held up a milky wa
ter would run out, which by micro
scopic examination proved to con-
tain small particles of pus. Let
ting the water drop on a clear glass
and examining the same with a mi
croscope, moving particles appeal
ed to be perceptible. | believe the
matter contained animalculae, al
though | am not positive about it.
| made a square cut through the
left lung, about the middle, and
behold a new phenomenon was be-
fore me. Not less than about one
hundred fine thread worms, sever
inches long, were crowded into a
place not larger than the thickness
of of a lead pencil. They were hard
" the thickness of a human hair.
They laid lengthwise in the small
bronchial ramitication tubes, their
head downwards. The worms
seemed to die at their extremity.
and grow, as they worked down
wards into the smaller tubes. They
seem to be a link between the
the trichina and fresh water COR
dius.
On my way to St. Louis LAST