Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 4 (of 5)Law, James
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Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 4 (of 5)
Law, James
Veterinary medicine
_Immunization_ is somewhat more promising than in hog cholera.
Metchinkoff and Th. Smith working independently found a fair measure of
success in inoculating rabbits and guinea pigs with three to five small
injections of sterilized bouillon cultures, agar cultures or blood,
intravenously, intraabdominally or hypodermically. But as applied to
swine it has not proved satisfactory, and the irregularity of the
results and the tendency to induce unthriftiness have caused it to be
abandoned.
_Treatment._ The therapeutics of swine plague like that of hog cholera
is essentially unsatisfactory. Benefit might be derived in individual
cases from a careful and judicious use of drugs to meet the special
indications, but with the comparatively low value of the individual
animal, the certainty of the multiplication of the deadly poison by the
preservation of the diseased, and the extreme danger of its diffusion
and extension, treatment is anything but commendable.
_Serum-therapy_ has been advocated for years by De Schweinitz, and under
the auspices of the Bureau of Animal Industry it has been given a wide
trial, but it has not met with the full success that was at first
claimed for it. The serum is prepared in a similar way to that of hog
cholera and is similarly employed. It is open to the same class of
objections, and though when skillfully employed it will reduce the
mortality, it does not yet seem to have reached the point at which it
can be recommended as a profitable investment. Like all temporizing
measures it draws attention from the sounder and more economical measure
of extinction and is indirectly a means of the perpetuation and even the
diffusion of the infection. So long as extinction cannot be secured,
this is a less valuable alternative for the adoption of owners of high
priced hogs.
MODIFIED AND COMPLEX FEVERS OF SWINE.
Double infections. Varieties of bacillus choleræ suis, and bacillus
suis pestis. McFadyean’s swine fever bacillus. Marseilles swine plague
bacillus.
We accept fully the duality of the Hog Cholera and Swine Plague, though
this duality has been hotly contested on both sides of the Atlantic.
Many of the best observers in Europe now support this position. These
include Selander, Bang and Jensen who are familiar with the _svinpest_
(hog cholera) of Scandinavia; Kitt, Friedberger and Fröhner who are
familiar with the _Schweineseuche_ (swine plague) of Germany; Raccugla,
Canova and others in Southern Europe; and Lignieres and others in France
who have studied the hog cholera and _pasturellose porcine_ (swine
plague).
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