THE POULTRY DOCTOR. 25 



ing a work on the ills of poultry is in naming the 

 the diseases. A careful comparison of the few treatises 

 published heretofore on the subject, reveals the fact that 

 a disease that in one place bears one name, takes on 

 another in another part of the country. Fortunately, 

 however, this fact, which would prove so disastrous 

 under other systems of medicine, is but of slight 

 moment in homoeopathy, for it treats diseases, not ac- 

 cording to their names, but according to their symp- 

 toms, and a little knowledge of the action of the various 

 remedies will enable any one to treat a sick fowl intel- 

 ligently and quite independently of the name of the 

 disease. 



Homoeopathic remedies may be classified into groups 

 or families ; the individuals of which differ yet have 

 many traits in common. In the following pages the 

 remedy chiefly indicated by the disease is first given, 

 but it may not be the correct one in all cases, and the 

 others named afterwards may then be administered in 

 their order. 



Those having homoeopathic " family medicine cases " 

 (and every family living in the country should have 

 one) may use the medicines in them. The same medi- 

 cine applies equally to fowls or human beings; there is 

 no difference in the preparation of medicines for " veter- 



