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Show INDICATION OF HOG CHOLERA Some 6ymptoms That Are Likely to Be Found In Acute Form of Die-eases Die-eases Should Be Guarded. If a bog has died and cholera Is suspected, sus-pected, the carcass should be carefully careful-ly examined for Indications of the disease. dis-ease. As In the case of symptoms, some may be found In one hog and different indicators In another, Dut some are sure to be prevent If the bog died of cholera. The carcass should be opened along the medium line of the belly. The layer lay-er which lies Inside the body cavity, the peritoneum, may have red specks or splotches on It. This would Indicate the disease. The glands In the throat should bo examined. Tbey will sometimes some-times be speckled and hemorrhagic that Is, the tiny capillaries which carry car-ry their blood supply wl'l be ruptured. rup-tured. There Is one pair of glands In the throat which Is never affected in cholera, but Is with tulerculosls, writes I)r. Mclntoch In the Weekly Inter In-ter Ocean. The place next to examine will be the pleural cavity, or the division of the body which contains the lungs and 'heart. In case of death from chllera the lungs will often be congested and parts of them filled with blood. The healthy lung will float In water, but a congested one will sink. Tbere will be splotches and redness scattered over the surface. Sometimes the bog will have pneumonia a a result of the cholera, and this will be seen In the filled, congested condition of the lungs. In winter this sometimes kills the hog when It would have recovered from the cholera Itself. The heart will often show Inflammation and redness. The kidneys and spleen often show small spots scatterod over the surface like those on a turkey egg. On the kidney these may be seed more plainly after the capsule or tissue tis-sue covering the organ Is peeled off. The stomach U likely to show spots of Inflammation on the outside and be Inflamed on the Inner surface. The many small glands In the region may show the same characteristic speckled condition as thowe In the neck. Along the Intestines will likely be found the splotchy condition that looks as If a drop of blood bad fallen and spread out. The splotches, however, will not wash off. The above Indications are more likely to be found it) the acute form of cholera, and are associated with a rapid working action of the disease and rather sudden deaths. It Is the most virulent form and should be carefully guarded. |