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hours, keeping the patient in a closed cage or room 

 where the air is made moist by vapor from boiling 

 water, to which a few drops of carbolic acid or a few 

 hops have been added. Peed with raw eggs or bread 

 softened in milk. 



Poisoning May be caused by excess of common salt 

 (chloride of sodium). Give as an antidote strong coffee 

 or flaxseed tea.* 



For arsenic poisoning, from swallowing Paris green 

 or London purple, give boiled flax seed or white of egg. 



To counteract the effects of poisoning by lead, cop- 

 per, zinc or phosphorus give the white of egg or warm 

 water sweetened with sugar. 



Caustic soda, potash (concentrated lye) and nitrate 

 of soda are deadly in effect if taken internally. 



All poisonous substances should be kept safely lock- 

 ed away. A poisoned fowl, even in case of recovery, is 

 likely to be injured for life. 



Pox Chicken pox shows on the head and underside 

 of the wings little yellowish pox sores, round or oblong 

 in shape. Accompanying these there may be pale combs 

 and wattles, lack of appetite, weakness and sometimes 

 blindness. 



Isolate the affected fowl and keep in comfortable 

 quarters. Rub the sore parts carefully but thoroughly 

 with carbolated vaseline, twice daily. 



Let the fowl's daily diet include finely cut boiled 

 meat, green food and a mash of wheat middlings and 

 corn meal, moistened with milk. 



Disinfect the quarters and premises by spraying with 

 five per cent, carbolic acid solution. 



Rheumatism When the limbs are affected by rheu- 

 matism a fowl usually has a jerky gait in walking and 

 is inclined to squat upon the floor. Rheumatism more 

 frequently affects old fowls than growing chickens. In 

 some cases the joints show soft swellings, which gradu- 

 ally harden and may ulcerate. 



Exposure to damp, chilling conditions aggravates 

 thia disorder. 



