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only result in altering the character of the disease with- 

 out eradicating it. Opium is another remedy for con- 

 stipation, indicated when there is no urging. 



Contusions. 



If a fowl gets a severe blow or hurt in which no 

 bones are broken, bathe the hurt with a lotion of one 

 part Arnica tincture to twenty parts water, and put a 

 few drops of the water in the fowl's mouth. Arnica 

 should never be applied to man or beast undiluted. It 

 acts better when diluted. 



Consumption. 



This disease in fowls seems to be pretty much the 

 same as in human beings bad heredity or resulting 

 from a cold which is allowed to run on without care. 

 There is a cough, the fowl seems to eat well, yet grows 

 emaciated. " Incurable " is the general verdict, a ver- 

 dict which no believer in homoaopathy should admit to 

 be true, even though he cannot, with his present knowl- 

 edge, name the proper remedy. This consumption of 

 the lungs must be distinguished from the " consump- 

 tion " spoken of under " Marasmus." In both there 

 is a wasting away, but the seat of the trouble is differ- 

 ent. This is a disease that is sometimes classed in the 



