The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-04-20
HOG CHOLERA.
Important Discovery BY Moore
County Scientist.

10 the American.
LYNCHBURG, Tenn, April s, 1882.
Perhaps it would not be am.ss,
out rather relief TO the reading
public from the constant din anu
| Duz about the state debt and cog
nate questions, TO hear something
OF q ;. oore county enterprise thai
had 1t been born north OF the ONO,
would be the direct means Of saving
| hundreds and thousands of dollars
to the farmers annually. Indeed,
The strange thing about it is that 1t
has not been brought to light and
put upon a footing that would have
assured Its usefulness long before
this. 1t is no less than the discov
cry of an absolute and infallible
cure of the ali prevailing disease,
the dread of stock growers. the
hog-cholera. DIR. +. Y. salmon, OF
this place, physician of twenty
five years standing, a gentleman
fond of agricultural pursuits, hav
ing interested himself for the last
ten years in the diseases of the low
er animals, his attention heing par
tlcularly directed to cholera among
hogs, or, as he denomiuates it, ''the
hog plague" by constant and untir-
ing experiments, made the discov-
cry that the disease was located in
the fluids of the hog instead of the
organs, as was the general and fatal
error of those who had treated the
subject before him. In 1877 he
was examined as an expert in law
suit in this county, growing out OF
the transfer of lot of hogs alleged
70 be diseased with cholera, when
for the first time, perhaps, he an
nounced publicly this theory. His
mastery treatment of the subject
was intensely interesting to the
court and jury as well as the public
generally. Since that time congress
propriated $4,000 20 the inyes-
| tigation Of the subject and placed
it IN the hands of Mr. LeDuc, hu
commissioner of agriculture a.
Washington, ~ who employed mum
Der of eminent scientific gentlemen
60 examine into and report upon
the subject. The result OF their Ia
bors was the complete demonstra-
ton of the correctness of DR. Sal
IN ms theory. TIE gentlemen COM
posing this commission were De
ture, Chicago; DR.. Laws, Itchica,
n. Y; DR.. Dunlap, Iowa City; DR..
Voyles, New Albany, Ind, and
others.
On this theory DIR. Salmon con
tinred to experiment, until, in
1878, he discovered his wonderful
remedy and disinfectant,w which when
given to the hog, enters the circula-
ton and destroys the bacteria suis
themselves, thus removing the
cause that so rapidly destroys the
life of this valuable animal. Al
ready this remedy has been the
means of saving hundred o. dollars
every year to the farmers of this anu
adjoining counties.
They will find the farmers gener-
ally, and particularly the distIllers
in this county, who are largely in
terested in hogs, have given it a
thorough trial, and are fully salts
fed that it is all in the way of a
remedy that DR.. Salmon claims tor
it. 1t is both preventative and a
cure. Farmers in this county who
use it regularly never have any dis
ease among their hogs. Among
those who will testify to its merits
are Jno. F. Baxter, NJ. G. Osborne,
W. w. Holt, G. H. Worner, Jas.
Becky, farmers, and inc. I. Mat
low, Tolley d Eaton, distillers of
this county and Col. Hayden
March, and Judge j. j. Williams,
of Franklin county, and many 9th
ers who could be mentioned.
The process by which DR.. Sal
mon discovered that this dread dis
ease is located in the fluids of the
hog and is not organic as has here
tofore been maintained, was in find
ing different organs affected in diff
ferent hogs. In one case he would
find the disease located in the liver !;
in another it would be the bowels /;
in another the brain, and so on.
This led to the necessary test of the
fluids, and there the disease was 10
Gated. Having thus located the
disease il was an easy matter foi
DIR. Salmon, with his thorough
knowledge as a prescriptionist, to
discover the remedy. Those who
are inclined to doubt the efficacy
of this cure upon the general by
ppthesis that cholera among hogs,
like consumption in the huma"
family, is incurable, need only to
converse with DIR. Salmon to satisfy
them selves that he is perfect mss
ter of the subject And that ne ha-
discovered a remedy tbat can he
made worth thousands OF dollars ev-
cry year to The country in the WY
Of removing the dread scOurge thai
has reduced Tennessee from the
first hog growing state in the union
TO about the tenth. ] firmly believe
by the use of this remedy the gooC
olden time of hog and hominy anC
generally prospesity can be re
-orted. Hence, | write at length
with the hope the subject may be
brought properly before the public
Respectfully.