Disease* 16 1 



WOUNDS. From a variety of causes, principally accidents, 

 or from an accumulation of hardened matter being forced from 

 the feet of birds instead of being softened by the use of warm 

 water, wounds or sores are engendered. The best treatment 

 is first to cleanse the sore with a little pure spring water, in 

 which a red-hot cinder has been deposited, or, where there is 

 inflammation and irritation, with a little fuller's earth well 

 moistened with water. Afterwards apply, once or twice a day 

 according to symptoms, a little compound tincture of myrrh, 

 with a feather, until the wound is healed, or Friar's Balsam 

 may, in some cases, be used instead of the myrrh, with greater 

 advantage. 



I have now, I imagine, enumerated all the principal ills from 

 which canaries suffer, and pointed out, as far as my experience 

 has enabled me, the best mode of treatment and the best means 

 of cure. I hope that those who try them will receive as much 

 benefit from the application of many of the ingredients I 

 have recommended as I have done myself, in which case 

 they will have no cause to regret the efforts they may make 

 to relieve their little suffering friends; but as many of the 

 ailments from which they suffer can obviously be prevented, 

 I must conclude by calling the attention of fanciers to that 

 ever-to-be-remembered adage, " Prevention is better than cure." 



