General [General] This disease is extremely faint. It often goes on with such rapidity, that the animal falls dead without having exhibited any symptoms of the disease, and is found dead in the sty, where the evening before it was left in perfect health. More usually it is preceded by symptoms which last from twelve to twenty-four hours. The pig becomes restless, and scrapes litter together in heaps; the breathing is difficult, and the animal appears dejected; it holds the head down and grinds the teeth; there appear on the ears, neck, chest, and belly, red streaks which gradually become blue or black, though in many cases only after death.
In those animals where the disease does not prove fatal rapidly, there is observed great weakness of the muscular system; the animal staggers as it walks, or it remains lying down, stretched out almost motionless; it often vomits what it has eaten, and sometimes yellow lumps also; upon the skin along the belly and the hind legs, there appears an eruption, at first reddish, soon becoming black.
Arsenicum [Ars] Arsenicum and Belladonna are the best remedies. I have had an opportunity of treating several cases successfully with these two medicines.
Dose. Four drops every one, two or three hours according to circumstances.
