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clean) and feed good food. The first day give them 

 Aconite, two or three dozen pellets in the drinking 

 water. The next day give Arsenicum (wash the drink- 

 ing vessel thoroughly on changing medicines, or get a 

 new one). Mercurius viv. and Chamomilla are also 

 useful. 



There is also a species of bloody flux or inflamma- 

 tion of the bowels, which attacks turkeys and hens 

 when closely confined, fed on bad food and given foul 

 drinking water. The abdominal walls get thin and 

 transparent, and there is a sinking in the region of 

 the anus; a bloody, mucus-like diarrhoea accompanied 

 with rapid emaciation. Mercurius cor., in clean, pure 

 water, is the best remedy. Ipecac., also, is useful. 



There is a disease among geese and ducks originating 

 from the same causes as the preceding, which, in some 

 respects, resembles it, yet which post-mortem examin- 

 ation shows to be inflammation of the spleen. Geese, 

 when attacked, begin to shriek, put their heads to the 

 ground, fall over on their backs, go into convulsions and 

 die. Where the disease has progressed so far, there is no 

 help for the sick. But the remainder of the flock may be 

 cooped up or confined, given good food and pure water, 

 in which Arsenicum, as a preventative, has been dis- 

 solved ; give this remedy for three days, changing water 



