Kinney on Swine and Their Diseases

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. %tp..: \ ©op^rig^ fa, Shelf,...; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. HKINNEYK ON Swine >nd Their Disej AN J) THEIR BREEDING.REARlNGf MANAGEMENT. ALSO HIS THIRTY-THREE YEARS' SUSSESSFUL MEDKBAL TREATMENT lOFi SIXTY-FO UR DISTINCT DISEASES. >h> "• GEORGE w/kINNEY. i ALL COMMUNICATIONSUNICATIONS TO. DIRECT TO | D. T. MICHAEL TAYLORVILLE, ILLINOIS. *~ r Copyright, 1891, By GEOKGE W. KINNEY, All Rights^ Reserved. PRRFAGR. The continual introduction of and the use of thor- oughbred boars will, with a liberal system of pedigree, produce better pork at a far less cost than when we use the common boar, and the farmer who practices this will be more likely to study the principles of breeding with an interest he had never felt before. With the end in view to improvement of the different breeds of hogs and their health, I offer this volume to the public, hoping that into the hands of whoever this work may fall that they will give it a careful perusal. I give it the name Swine because it applies to all breeds and classes of the hog species. If I were writing a work on natural history, hog would be the proper word to be used. But this is mere- ly a practical treatise on Swine. First, the manner and mode of breeding, as given by those who have spent years in the improvement of the different breeds throughout both Europe and the United States, as given by Stevens in his Book of Form, the wri- ters in Morton's Cyclopedia of Agriculture, and Youatt, Martin, Richardson, Sydney, and Darwin, though they speak of the pig and not hog, think that the refined, im- proved hog of to-day should not receive the rough, dirty name of a thousand years ago, as you will see from the plates in this work which are true copies given by the above authors. I also offer in this work sixty-four distinct diseases; their symptoms and the remedies that I have used with great success for the past thirty years. In this work you will find when, where, and by whom all of the different improvements in the different breeds have been made, and our opinion of the best breed to be reared by the farmers of our country. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. The Agricultural Report for the year 1863, issued by authority of the United States Government at Washing- ton, D. C., on pages 206 and 207, contained the following: " There have, at various times, appeared individuals who claimed to have discovered a specific cure for it, [hog cholera], and holding it a secret while they petitioned State Legislatures and Congress for aid or compensation by large appropriations. "The latest of these men is one in our own State, Mr. G. W. Kinney, of Albion, Illinois, who has repeatedly presented the matter to our State Agricultural Society's Ex- ecutive Board and our State Legislature, in order to get an appropriation, which he would deem compensation, when he would make his discovery public. " The State Board last winter chose a Committee to use his remedies, and report upon the same. We have no knowledge of their ever having made a report as yet. We have, however, learned from them something of the results. Captain James N. Brown, of Sangamon county, who was one of the Committee, administered the medicine as prepared by Mr. Kinney to a lot of hogs, which were dying very rapidly. They at once began to improve rapidly, arid soon lost all traces of the disease, which did not appear again for several months, and then slightly. The medicines again administered had the same effect. KINNEY ON SWINE. '9 "At the last State Fair, held at Decatur, we saw and conversed with several intelligent farmers who had pur- chased the privilege of using from Mr. Kinney, and had tried it with like results, and highly recommended the remedies. " Mr. Kinney's theory of the disease, as given by him before the Executive Board, is that the seat of the disease is at first in the lungs of the animal, the lungs of every diseased animal containing a knot of small worms. In the first stages of the disease he gives a medicine to be in- haled as the hog takes to food. In the third and last stage, other medicine is required to regulate the action of the bowels. Mr. Kinney stated that to the 'undetective eye' it wT as difficult to discover the disease in what he calls the first two stages. The symptoms he describes as fol- lows : " 'The first thing to be noticed in the diseased hog is weakness in the eyes, the water flowing from them, togeth- er with the formiug of dark spots under the eyes. In the second stage there is discoverable a slight shrinkage of the shoulder, something like that of the shoulder of a horse in case of sweeney, connected with slight coughing. In the third stage there is great thirst, a drawing up of the hiudquarters, a sign of great weakness, and a refusal of food.' " The third stage, Mr. Kinney asserts, is nearly identi- cal with the first symptoms as described by Dr. Snow, of Providence, Rhode Island, and is extremely difficult to overcome." The Journal of the Illinois House of Representatives for the year 1863, page 65, shows that the Hon. TomMer- ritt, of Salem, 111., introduced the following: "Mr. Merritt presented the petition of George Kinney, praying that he might be permitted to lay before the Committee on Agriculture his discovery of a cure for hog cholera. "Referred to the Committee on Agriculture." Thirty years ago, when I entered upon the investiga- 10 KINNEY ON SWINE. tion of the disease known as hog cholera, I was not at that time a practicing physician, but was practicing law and trying to raise a few hogs. The loss of my own and neigh- bor's swine caused me to turn my mind to its investigation. I was recommended by such highly honored and honorable gentlemen as the Honorable Thomas Merritt, of Sa- lem, 111., who presented a iDetition to the Legislature of Illinois, asking that such an appropriation should be made as to justify me in making public my discovery, and anoth- er petition presented in the State Senate by the Hon. Mr. Tincher, of Edgar county, to the same effect in 1867. See House Journal and Senate Journal of 1863, and Senate Journal of 1861. This was among war times, when ex- citement ran high and but little else was thought of and what might be its result. But as the tornado has passed with its varying result, some made poor while others were enriched, and the tattered condition of a mighty Nation is again placed in front in all her pristine glory, strength, and beauty, the people are again looking for a little of her rule that they may enjoy some of the comforts which have been so dearly paid for, and are again through our Congress asking for such aid as is at their command for further investigation of the disease known as hog cholera. Much do we hope that it will be a practical benefit to the whole people. Give to us men that investigate from a practical stand point and not men digging with a whole harpoon for a microbe in the hog's blood. The sick person is credulous about his disease and is alternately buoyed up by his hopes and cast down by his fears. They who promise him health generally ob- tain his confidence, and this is the reason why so many become the dupes of quacks and pateLt medicine men, who are unwearied in their solicitations and have their banners unfurled to the breeze with their liver pads and nostrums to dupe the ignorant and unsuspecting. That all diseases originate of, to, for, by, within, into, without, through, above, below, beneath, from, KINNEY ON SWINE. 11 beyond, at, near, behind and before, every disease origi- nates from some derangement of the liver, and having the person to swallow the entire catalogue of prepositions known to the English language, he is then sick enough to wear a liver-strengthing pad or swallow a liver cure-all made up with some highlv stimulating drug or powerful narcotic. The mind feels greatly relieved since he swal- lowed the gas of that almanac. As its influence dies away, the patient (like the whiskey inebriate) can scarcely wait for second and third doses, it produced such momentary relief and caused him to feel so good. Only notice how closely the patient watches the clock that he may be prompt in taking his dose regularly according to direc- tions, and not unlike the wine bibber the person is now its slave. The opiates contained in that single dose have relieved the pain. See how sweetly he sleeps. Is he not better? Certainly he is. It can be seen in every expres- sion of his countenance. He can no longer labor, eat, sleep or be pleasant without its bracing influence. Often take a pain, probably in the big toe, at night. My disease is working downward. It has got down so low I will soon be a well man or woman. One more dose and I am well. Out of bed to the spoon and bottle, and how soon is the patient, wrapped in the arms of Morpheus, dreaming of the beautiful, handsome, and smart doctor whose picture is labelled upon the bottle. Yes, Doctor, I can endorse all the good that has been said of your medicine.

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