16 LEHMAN'S POULTRY DOCTOR. 



To the healthy give a teaspoonful of the following 

 tonic for each 20 fowls, once a day, in soft feed: 



Quinine 2 dr. 



Sulphur 2 dr. 



Hyposulphite of soda 2 dr. 



Ginger 4 dr. 



Gentian 6 dr. 



The sick should be put in a warm, dry, clean, well 

 ventilated place, which is free from draughts. The diph- 

 theretic membrane should be removed from the throat 

 as directed for removing cheesy material in simple 

 catarrh (see page 13) ; then, at least once a day, wash 

 the mouth, throat and eyes, if affected, with bo- 

 racic acid solution, ten grains to the ounce of warm 

 water, or with a 29(- solution of creolin; or, perhaps, 

 the best that can be used is equal parts of peroxide 

 of hydrogen and clean, soft water. If pus and 

 growths containing cheesy matter form about the 

 head, these should be opened with a sharp knife and 

 the wound kept filled with iodoform or boracic acid. 



For internal treatment, give one grain of equal parts 

 of quinine and calcium sulphide three times a day. To 

 give this, it may be mixed with a little moist meal and 

 made into a pill and pushed back into the throat. 



When on a fair way to recovery, the tonic given 

 above for the well may be given the same as di- 

 rected, in their feed. Good, wholesome food should 

 be given. All dead birds must be deeply buried or 

 burned. 



