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the extent of two grains to each fowl, for three or four 

 days, the evils of the ravage may be stayed. 



But in treating those bad cases described above, if the 

 patient is so full of canker as to be unable to eat, we 

 must administer the doses. 



At the time of the Portland exhibition, I had sent to 

 me a patient in the shape of a fine Light Brahma. The 

 bird did not arrive until I had left for the exhibition; 

 consequently, it was three days before I could attend to 

 him. When I retured I found him in the following 

 deplorable condition: His mouth was as full as it could 

 possibly be of canker; his head was swollen till both eyes 

 were closed, arid face and comb were broken out with 

 dry canker, or, as some poultry men call it, chicken-pox. 

 By the use of a large syringe, I injected the bird's crop 

 full of milk in which four grains of bromide had been 

 dissolved; I then gargled the mouth and throat with 

 kerosene in the way described above. 



We see many recommendations to remove the canker 

 by forcible means; this is the very worst thing that can 

 be done (inhuman and retards the cure). In the case of 

 the Light Brahma, by gargling the throat three morn- 

 ings, the fourth morning nearly all the canker slipped 

 off, leaving the mouth smooth. I administered the milk 

 and bromide for the four days also. 



The head, as I have described, was a swollen, shapeless 

 mass. I felt that the case was a hopeless one, and, al- 

 ready knowing the curative properties of the oil for 

 canker in the throat, I bathed the head, face, and throat 

 with the oil, repeating the operation the second morn- 

 ing, when I noticed here and there small blisters on the 

 throat, and a decided improvement in the looks of my 

 patient. I then on the fourth morning applied the oil 

 again, when the swelling subsided, and he opened his 

 eyes and commenced to eat a little, and from that time 

 improved rapidly; the blisters of course dried down. 



