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of ferric chloride with one teaspoonful of gylcerine and 

 add to one i/mt of water. This is sufficient for twenty 

 fowls. 



Apoplexy Bursting of blood vessel in the brain, 

 prostrates the fowl, which is found insensible or dead, 

 lying on its side. Comb and wattles purple. Occurs 

 especially in overfat fowls when running or laying. 

 Gorging with food or becoming overheated in sultry 

 weather may bring on an attack. Avoid excess in feed- 

 ing, especially of fatty and starchy foods. 



Asthenia Often termed "going light," wasting of 

 muscles due to lack of food, unbalanced rations, digest- 

 ive disorders, external or internal parasites, tuberculosis, 

 blood poisoning. Correct the conditions if possible. Give 

 twice daily, nitrate of 'bismuth, three groins, powdered 

 cinnamon or cloves, one grain; powdered willow char- 

 coal, three grains, mixed in the mash feed or made into 

 pills with water and flour. 



To disinfect the intestines napthol, bethol or salicy- 

 late of bismuth may be given in one-half grain doses 

 every four hours. 



If the wasting is checked give a tonic of thirty 

 grains each of powdered fennel, anise, one dram each of 

 coriander and cinchona, fifteen grains of powdered sul- 

 fate of iron, all well mingled and added to the mash 

 feed at the rate of three or four grains daily. The 

 mash may be made of wheat middlings, corn meal and 

 rice flour, mixed with boiled milk, adding finely chop- 

 ped boiled egg or boiled beef. 



Atrophy of the Liver Wasting of the liver, caused by 

 chronic inflammation, may result in stupor or convul- 

 sions. 



Prevent by feeding green food, balanced rations, and 

 scattering small grains in litter to induce exercise. 



Give fowl one-half grain calomel followed by twenty- 

 grains Epsom salts in a tablespoonful of water. 



After ten hours give two grains bicarbonate soda. 



A one grain dose daily of napthol or benzo-napthol 

 will tend to disinfect the intestinal tract. 



