CHAPTER 3. 



Diseases of the Digestive Organs. 



Catarrhal Stomatitis, Sore Mouth or Pip— Obstruction in 

 the Throat— Impaction of the Crop, Crop-bound, or 

 Paralysis of the Crop— Catarrh, or Inflammation ol the 

 Crop— Indigestion or Ga^ritis— Gastro-Intestinal Cat- 

 arrh, Bowel Trouble in Chicks— Simple Diarrhoea- 

 Enteritis, Inflammation of the Bowels— Constipa- 

 tion— Congestion ot the Liver— Inflammation of the 

 Liver, Hepatitis — Infectious Entero-Hepatitis or Black 

 Head in Turkeys— Cholera — Worms— Asthenia, Going 

 Light — Peritonitis and Abdominal Dropsy— Limber 

 Neck, Ptomaine Poison. 



CATARRHAL stomatitis is a catarrhal inflamma- 

 tion of the mouth; the disease is oten called pip. 

 Dr. Salmon says: "The term pip is commonly 

 used with birds much as hollow-horn and murrain are 

 applied to cattle diseases," and most everybody now- 

 adays knows that those are only imaginary diseases, 

 or symptoms of some other trouble in cattle. 



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