A treatise on the hog: his habits, breeds, management, and diseases. With especial reference to the disease called hog cholera. Together with a chapter on trichina by Reasor James A

Author:Reasor, James A. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Swine. [from old catalog]
Publisher: Louisville, Ky., Printed by J. P. Morton and company
Published: 1870-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

were gangrenous spots on the legs, belly, sides, etc. Some became delirious, others blind, and nearly all attacked died in from two to five days. "These symptoms," says Dr. Sutton, "were combined in almost every variety."

Mr. Higgins found in the cases examined by him an apparently healthy condition of all the organs except the lungs and bronchial tubes, and these were affected in different degrees by inflammation from simple engorgement to complete destruction of the lung tissue. He did not find any well-defined abscesses in any of the lungs. The left upper lung, according to his observation, was generally the most affected of the two. He examined the blood of healthy pigs and that of those about to die of this disease, and found the proportion of fibrin in the healthy as 2.33 to 1000, and the diseased 5.60 to 1000, with a larger but less firm and brighter clot than in healthy blood.

Dr. Sutton examined forty-seven hogs that died of this disease, and found no two precisely alike. He found in all a diffusive form of inflammation in some organ or tissue, seemingly of the erysipelatous kind. In different cases this inflammation was found upon the skin and subjacent tissues, which were of a dark purple color, and infiltrated with serum. In most of his cases the mucous membrane of the stomach was

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