Abstinence from pork, necessary in hot climates, 23.
Acorns, pigs thrive on, 182.
Age, great, of wild boars, 48.
Agricultural societies, influence of, on breeding, 176.
America,
importation of breeds of swine into, 61;
six species of hogs in, 58;
wild boars in, 57.
Analogy between the Chinese and their pigs, 64.
Anatomy of swine, &c. 101,
Ancients, boar-hunts of, 48.
Anecdotes of pigs, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39.
Anglo-Saxons, boar-hunts of, 50.
Animal substances, feeding swine on, 188.
Apoplexy in pigs, 108.
Apparatus for preparing pigs' food, 200.
Apples, swine fed on, 189.
Ardennes, wild boar of, 52.
Armor, hogs in, or Tatous, 15.
Ashes given to pigs, 197.
Attachments of swine, 39.
Autumn, best time for fattening pigs, 190.
B.
Babiroussa, the, 14;
at Zoological Gardens, 14.
Bacon,
curing, 213;
derivation of the word, 213;
importation of, 220.
Bakewell, Mr., his pigs, 80.
Bavarian pigs, 68.
Beans, feeding swine on, 181, 187.
Beasts of draught, pigs used as, 36, 37.
Bedford, Duke of, cut of his Berkshire sow, 86.
Bedfordshire pigs, 82.
Beech mast, swine fed on, 182.
Bement, Mr., of Albany, on breeding pigs, 61.
Berkshire pigs, 85.
——— sow, cut of a, 86.
Bladder, the, 134;
inversion of, 135.
Bleeding swine, 134.
Blood, hogs', used as holy water, 65.
Boar hunts, laws respecting, 48, 49, 50.
———— of the ancients, 49.
———— of the Anglo-Saxons, 50.
Boars, choice of, for breeding, 150.
Boar's Head,
Christmas dish, 51;
presented to the hangman, 51;
at Queen Margaret's wedding dinner, 51.
Boars,
tamed, 39;
technical terms for, 50;
wild, see "Wild Boars."
Bothnian pigs, 68.
Brain of the hog, 107;
inflammation of, 108.
Bran, feeding pigs on, 189.
Breeding, rules respecting, 149, 150.
——— swine, how far profitable, 170.
Breeds improved by judicious crosses, 153;
which are the best, 153.
Breweries, pigs fed on refuse of, 179.
Brine, poisonous properties of, 220.
Bristles,
ropes made from,74;
use made of, 34.
Bronchial tubes, 122.
Brushing pigs, 202.
Butcher, profit of pigs to the, 206
C.
Cæsarian operation performed on a sow, 153.
Cape, the, the phaco-choeres in, 15.
Capibara, the, 15.
Carrots, feeding swine on, 180, 181.
Castrated animals, disposed to obesity, 178.
Castration of pigs, modes of, 145.
Catching pigs, 147.
Cattle shows, benefits and abases of, 177.
Census of the increase of pigs by breeding, 170.
Chanting to pigs, 203.
Character, developing a pig's, 108.
Charles I., reintroduction of wild boars by, 51, 87.
Cheshire pigs, 83.
Chestnuts, swine fed on, 182.
Chest of the pig, 120.
Chinese swine, 88,99;
liable to become over fat, 178.
Chinese, the, and their pigs, analogy between, 64.
Choice of boar and sow for breeding, 150.
Christmas dish, the boar's head a, 51.
Cinders given to pigs, 189.
Cleanliness of swine, 41, 189.
Clover, feeding pigs on, 187.
Cochon d'Inde. See "Guinea Pig."
Cœcum, the, 128.
Coleshill pigs, 179.
Colic, 129.
Colon, the, 128.
Combing pigs, 202.
Copts, the, rear no pigs, 27.
Cornish pigs, 85.
Crete, hogs sacred in, 23.
Crops, number of swine to be proportioned to the farmer's, 171.
Crosses, judicious, improve the breed, 153.
Curing bacon, 213.
Cuvier, Baron,
his definition of "Hog," 11;
on the babiroussa, 14;
on the capibara, 15;
on the peccary, 13.
D.
Dairy refuse for pigs, 179, 192.
Dead pig. preparing the, 212.
Definition, zoological, of the pig, 11.
Democrates' prescription for measles, 143.
Derbyshire pigs, 79.
Derivation of term " Hog," 15.
Desquamation of the skin, 143.
Diarrhœa, 129.
Dickens, Charles, on American pigs, 59, 60.
Dieskau, M. de, taming boars, 40.
Diseased valves of the heart, 121.
Diseases of swine,
described, 102;
little notice paid hitherto to, 102;
medicines used for, 140, 223.
Diseases of the skin, 136.
Distilleries, pigs fed on refuse of, 179 197.
Docility of swine, 35, 37, 40.
Drenching pigs, 148.
Duodenum, the, 128.
E.
Early domestication of swine in England, 31.
Early history of swine, 30.
Emperor of Austria's wild boar park, 53.
Empirics, animals not to be intrusted to, 101.
England,
breeds of swine in, 77;
records respecting keeping swine in, 30.
English swine introduced into France, 72.
Enteritis, 129.
Epidemics among swine, 123.
Epilepsy, 110.
Epitaph on a prize pig, 178.
Erysipelas, gangrenous, 137.
Extinction of wild boars in Great Britain, 50.
F.
Farrowing,
best time for, 156;
rules respecting, 153.
Fattening pigs, 33, 177, 184, 186, 188;
excess of, 179.
Feeding swine, 33, 176, 177, 188.
Filthy habits of swine denied, 41.
Fleam, the use of, dangerous, 145.
Food of swine, 33, 42;
best kind for fattening, 189.
Food of wild boars, 47.
Forester, Lord, his pigs, 88.
Forests of England, swine in, 31.
Four-in-hand, swine driven, 36.
France,
breeds of swine in, 69;
English swine introduced into, 72;
wild boars in, 52.
Fruits, feeding swine on, 43.
G.
Gangrenous erysipelas, 137.
Garget of the maw, 120.
Gauls, the, early breeders of swine, 22.
Germany,
management of herds of swine in, 32;
mode of hunting hogs, 52;
wild boars introduced from, into England, 51, 87.
Gestation, period of, 164.
Gifford, Master John, on hunting, 50.
Gloucestershire pigs, 84.
Grain,
best for fattening pigs, 184, 194;
how to be given to swine, 187.
Grains, pigs fed on, 179.
Great Britain,
extinction of wild boars in, 51;
reintroduction of boars, 51, 87.
Greediness of swine, 42, 44.
Green meat, feeding swine on, 187.
Guiana, the peccary abounds in, 13.
Guinea pig, the, 14;
the phaco-choeres in, 15.
Gullet, the, 127.
H.
Hampshire pigs, 87.
Hams,
curing, 215, 217;
importation of, 220;
Westphalian, 52, 217.
Hangman, boar's head presented to the, 52.
Heart of the pig, 122;
diseased valves of, 122.
Hedgehog, the, 15.
Heliogabalus, boars trained by, 37.
Henderson,
description of his sties, 199;
his method of curing bacon, 215.
Herds of swine, how managed in Germany, 32, 33.
Herefordshire pigs, 84.
Hernia in swine, 135.
History of Toby, a pet pig, 40.
Hogape, 15.
Hog deer. See "Babiroussa"
—— derivation of term, 21
Hog in armor, 15.
—— iron, 15.
—— puddings made by ancient Gauls, 22.
—— sea, 15.
—— with two horns, 14 ; four horns, 15.
Hog's blood used as holy water, 65.
—— dung as manure, 222.
Hogs,
anatomy of, 100, &c.;
attachments of, 40;
best food for fattening, 189;
breeding, 149;
catching and holding, for operations, 147;
cause of their rolling in the mud, 42;
characteristics of, 35, &c.;
chief source of profit in Ireland, 33;
cleanliness of, 42, 189;
collected by the winding of a horn, 32;
despised by Egyptians, 28;
diseases of, 108, 149;
drenching, 148;
driven four-in hand, 36;
early history of, 30;
exquisite sense of smell of, 35, 47, 105;
fattening, 173—197;
functions fulfilled in forest by, 33;
greatly esteemed by Romans, 22;
greediness of, 42 44;
how far the breeding of, is profitable, 169;
how kept in Mexico, 202;
how pulse to be taken, 121;
hunt for truffles, 106;
importation of, 99;
in English forests, 31;
intractability of, refuted, 32, 35—38, 108;
introduction of English, into France, 72;
killing, 211;
laws on price and quality of, 31;
learned, 38;
lucrativeness of keeping, 170, 206;
mad, 114;
masting, 31;
medicines used for, 223;
methods of shooting, in Germany, 52;
mode of keeping, in Germany, 32;
mode of keeping, in Mexico, 202;
number of, to be proportioned to the farmer's crops, 172;
old English, 77;
operations on, 144, 149;
pasturing, 187;
profit of, to the butcher, 206;
racing, 38;
ringing, 148;
roasted, offered to deities, 63;
skeleton of, 103;
skin of, 136;
skull of, 104;
soiling, 187;
sties for, 197:
sucking, 166;
table of increase of, by breeding, 170;
teeth of, 106;
training of, 35, &c.;
used as beasts of draught, 74;
used for ploughing, 37;
usefulness of, 33;
very nice in their food, 43;
warmth required by, 198;
weaning, 168;
weather indicated by, 42.
Hog, the,
in Africa, 66;
Alderney, 73;
America, 58—62;
Arabia, 66;
Asia, 64;
Ceylon, 65;
Channel Islands, 72;
China, 64;
Columbia, 63:
England, 77—89;
Falkland Islands, 63;
Flanders, 72;
France, 69;
Germany, 67;
Guernsey, 72;
Hebrides, 73:
Hindostan, 65;
Hungary, 68;
Japan, 64;
Jersey, 58;
Indiana, 61;
Ireland, 89;
Isle of Man, 73;
Italy, 67;
Malta, 66;
Netherlands, 72;
New Holland, 63;
Orkneys, 74;
Poland, 69;
Russia, 69;
Scotland, 75;
Serk, 73;
Shetland Islands, 73;
South Sea Islands, 63;
Sweden, 67;
Turkey, 65.
Horns Farm, piggery at the, 200.
Homer, his description of a boar hunt, 48.
Homer's swine-herd, 30.
Horn, swine collected by the sound of a, 32.
Howel Dha, laws of, 31, 50.
Hunting wild boars, 49, 50, 51, 53, 56.
Hunt, swine trained to, 35.
I,J.
Java, the babiroussa found in, 14.
Jejunum, the, 128.
Jews, forbidden to eat pork, 23.
Ileum, the, 128.
Importation of bacon, ham, and salted pork, 220.
Importation of swine, 99, 220.
India, wild boar hunt in, 54.
Indian corn, feeding swine on, 187.
Indian hog, 15, 50.
Inflammation of the lungs, 122.
Intestines, the, 127.
————, worms in, 133.
Intractability of swine refuted, 35.
Inversion of the bladder, 135.
Ireland, pigs chief source of profit in, 33.
Irish pig, the, 89.
——————, lately improved, 90.
——— pork, 90.
Iron hog, the, 15.
Italy, swine employed in hunting for truffles in, 43.
Jungles, hogs in the, 54.
K.
Killing pigs, 211.
L.
Lake, Colonel, his account of the pigs in Guernsey, 73.
Lancet, use of the, 146.
Larynx, 116.
Lawly, Sir F., his pigs, 83.
Laws, English, on price and quality of swine, 31.
Laws of Shetland relative to pigs, 73.
Learned pigs, 38.
Leicester pigs, 80.
Leprosy, pigs subject to, 138.
Leprous pigs, wholesomeness of flesh of, questioned, 140.
Lice, pigs infested with, 137.
Life of pigs in Germany, 32.
Lincolnshire pigs, 79.
Linnæus on swine's vegetable diet, 43.
Litters, how many to be suffered, 154.
Liver, the, 130.
Lungs of the swine, 122;
inflammation of, 122.
M.
Mad pigs, 109.
Maimonides on prohibition of swine's flesh, 23.
Maladies of swine. See "Diseases."
————————, medicines used for, 223.
Malays, the, use the fat of the babiroussa, 14.
Mange, swine afflicted with, 141.
Manure, pig's dung as, 222.
Masting swine, 31.
Matches run by pigs, 37, 38.
Maw, garget of the, 130.
Measles in swine, 142.
Medicines used for maladies of swine, 223.
Mexican hog, 13, 62, 202.
Mexico, how pigs are kept in, 202.
Milk, swine fed on, 179.
Mohammed's prohibition of swine's flesh, 24.
Moldavian pigs, 68.
Moluccas, the babiroussa found in, 14,
Monstrosities farrowed by swine, 165.
Morocco, wild boars in, 56.
Moses gave laws respecting swine, 22.
Muscles of the hog, 106.
N.
Nasal catarrh, 116.
Norfolk pigs, 82.
Northamptonshire pigs, 83.
Nutritious food for swine, 191.
Nuts not to be given to pigs, 184.
O.
Ogilvy, W., Esq., cut of a Chinese sow sent to, 88.
Old English hog, cut of, 77.
Operations on swine, 144.
Os hyoides, the, 118.
Oxford, boar's head at Queen's College, 51.
P.
Palsy, 111.
Panther torn to pieces, by hogs, 62.
Paraguay, the peccary abundant in, 13.
Paralysis, 111.
Paris menagerie, babiroussa at, 14.
Parturition, 162.
—————, cases of difficult, 163.
Pasturing swine, 187.
Peas, feeding pigs on, 186.
Peccary, the 13.
Peritoneum, 133.
Peritonitis, 133.
Pet pig, a, 40.
Phaco-choeres, the, 15.
Pharynx, the, 118.
Phrenitis, 109.
Pickling pork, 212.
Pig. See "Hog."
Pig-doctors, rough practice of, 102, 103.
Piggeries, proper construction of, 197.
Piggery, Prince Albert's, at the Home Farm, 200.
Pig-killing, 211.
Pig, preparing the dead, 212.
Pigs, roasted, offered to deities, 63, 64.
——, sucking, 206.
"Pigs see the wind," 42.
Pig-sties, proper construction of, 197.
Pliny alludes to the babiroussa, 14.
Pleuro-Pneumonia, 123.
Ploughing, swine used for, 37.
Poisonous properties of brine, 220.
Polish pigs, 67.
Porculatio, 22.
Porous Trojauus, the, 22
Pork,
abstinence from, in hot climates, 23;
importation of, 220;
increased demand for, 208;
pickling, 212.
Potatoes, staple food for pigs, 180, 181.
Practitioners, well qualified, should be consulted, 102.
Pregnancy, treatment of sows during, 160.
Price of swine, English laws respecting, 31.
Prize pigs, 177;
epitaph, on a, 178.
Prussia, pigs in, 67.
Pulsations in a state of health, 121.
Pulse, how to be taken, 121.
Pumpkins, swine fed on, 183.
Q.
Quinsy, the, 118.
R.
Rabies in swine. 112.
Reasoning powers of pigs, 37, 38.
Rectum, protrusion of the, 135.
Refuse of breweries and distilleries, hogs fed on, 179, 192.
Residue of starch manufactories, food for swine, 180, 192.
Rice, fattening swine with, 187.
Ringing pigs, 148.
Roasted pigs offered to deities, 63, 64.
Rolling in the mud of pigs, explained, 42.
Romans, breeding swine a study among the, 22.
Romans, the hog esteemed by, 22.
Rome, slaughter-house at, 211.
Roots, feeding pigs on, 180.
Ropes made from bristles, 74.
Rotundity of the Chinese and their pigs, 64.
Royal piggery at Windsor, 200,
Rupture of the spleen, 132.
Russia, wild boars in, 54.
S.
Sagacity of swine, 34, 39.
Salted pork, importation of, 220
Sausages, pork, made by ancient Gauls, 22.
"Schwein-General, the, 32.
Scotland, aboriginal breeds of swine in, 75.
Sea-hog, the, 15.
Sense of smell. See "Smell."
Sharon Turner on swine, 30.
Shropshire pigs, 83.
Skin, diseases of, 136.
Skull of the pig, 104.
Slut, training of a sow called, 35.
Slaughter house at Rome, 211.
Smell, exquisite, of the hog, 35, 42, 45, 48, 105.
Smokehouse, for curing bacon, 216.
Snout of the pig, 104
Snuffles, the, 116.
Social pigs, 40.
Soiling swine, 187.
Sow,
a Berkshire, 86;
best time for farrowing, 160;
choice of, for breeding, 150;
devouring her young accounted for, 42;
English on the quality and price of, 31;
fertility of 159;
pregnancy of, 160;
rules respecting farrowing, 160;
trained to hunt, 35.
Spain, wild boars in, 54.
Spaying of sows, 145, 146.
Spinal cord, disease of, 109.
Spleen, the, 131;
absorption of, 131;
rupture of, 131.
Splenitis, 131.
Sporting pig, 35.
Starch manufactories, residue of, food for swine, 192.
Stomach, the, 127.
Strangles, 119.
Sty, how to be constructed, 197.
Sucking pigs, 206;
how to be fed, 206;
when to be killed, 207.
Suckling, treatment of sows while, 166;
the young while, 166.
Suffolk pigs, 81.
Sumatra, the babiroussa found in, 14.
Sus, varieties included under the name of, 11, 12.
Sussex pigs, 87.
Sweden, wild boars in, 54.
Swine. See "Hog."
Swineherds,
outcasts from society, 29;
three powerful, in Great Britain, 29;
in Germany, 32.
Swineherd, the, of Ulysses, 30.
T.
Talented pigs, 37, 38.
Taming wild boars, 40, 57.
Teachableness of swine, 35, 39, 40.
Technical terms for the boar, 50.
Teeth of the hog, 106.
Tetanus, 112;
a consequence of castration, 146.
Thorax, the, 120.
Thornton, Col., account of a sow belonging to, 36.
Toby, a pet pig, account of, 40.
Toomer, Messrs., a sow trained by, 35.
Tractability of swine, 35, 39.
Training swine, 35, 36, 38.
Trollope, Mrs., on swine in America, 60.
Trough, the,
how to be kept, 199;
description of, 199, 200.
Truffles, hunted for by pigs, 45, 106.
Turnips, not beneficial to pigs, 180, 199.
Twety, William, on hunting, 51.
U.
Ulysses and his swineherd, 30;
boarhunt of, 49.
Usefulness of swine, 34.
V.
Valves of the heart, diseased, 121.
Varro on swine's flesh, 22;
distinctive marks of a good boar, 151.
Vegetable diet of swine,
very select, 43;
feeding pigs on, 180.
Ventilation required in piggeries, 108.
Vesical calculi, 134.
Veterinary surgeons should not be dispensed with, 102.
W.
Wallachian pigs, 68.
Warmth required by swine, 198.
Wart-hog, the, 16.
Wash, pigs fed on, 179.
Washing swine, 202.
Water-hog, the, 15.
Weather indicated by hogs, 42.
Western, Lord, his Essex pig, 80.
Westphalian hams, 52;
how cured, 217;
pigs, 68.
Whey, hogs fed on, 179.
Wild boar,
cut of a, 46;
hunting, 48; 49, 50;
of Ardennes, 52;
park of Emperor of Austria, 53.
exempt from leprosy, 140;
extinction of, in Great Britain, 48, 87;
the parent stock of our domesticated breeds, 46;
prolific in Morocco, 56; reintroduction into England, 48;
small number of litters, 48;
tamed, 40, 57;
in America, 57;
in France, 52;
in Germany, 52, 53;
in India, 54;
in Morocco, 56;
in Sweden, 54.
Wiley, Mr. Samuel, his pigs, 78.
William, IV., King, his Suffolk boar, 81.
Wiltshire pigs, 84.
Worms in the intestines, 133.
Y.
Yorkshire breed of swine, 78.
Z.
Zoological definition of the pig, 11.
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