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be isolated so much the better. European writers highly 

 commend Veratrum alb., both as curative and as pre- 

 venting the spread of the disease. Dissolve anywhere 

 from two dozen pellets to half the vial (according to size 

 of flock) in water given the fowls to drink, or take part 

 of the water and moisten their food with it. Arsenicum 

 is also quite as valuable in cholera; the symptoms of 

 both remedies bear great resemblance, Arsenicum being 

 indicated in the second stage where there is great pros- 

 tration. 



Arsenicum iod. (iodide of arsenic) has by clinical 

 experience proved effective, as the following experience 

 reported by Dr. Robert Boocock in the North American 

 Journal of Homoeopathy shows : " Chicken Cholera. 

 I can fully endorse the curative power of Iodide of 

 Arsenic in certain forms of humid asthma, having been 

 successful in a few cases. I want to speak of this medi- 

 cine as a means of curing the summer complaints we 

 often meet during the hot weather. Two years ago I 

 lost almost all my chickens by chicken cholera. Last 

 summer a new lot of hens and chickens began to die off 

 by the same disease, and I thought it a good chance to 

 try Arsenicum iod. 3. I mixed about two pounds of meal 

 with two drachms of the remedy, and left the mixture in 

 the chicken house for them to take at will. It cured 



