188 DISEASES AND CtfRES. 



One to be given in the morning daily. The head, eyes, and 

 nostrils, to be washed with warm milk and water. Or, 



Gentian, \ 



EJS^ts, Uu^ parts. 

 Flour of sulphur, J 



made into pills, about the size of a hazel nut, and one given 

 daily. 



If you would alter the medleine for a day, a grain of calomel 

 might be given in the summer season, but I should not like to 

 venture it in winter, if the fowl would be much exposed rue 

 chopped fine and made into pills with butter has been found 

 beneficial. If the fowl from blindness be unable to feed, cram 

 it with pellets of barley-meal, oatmeal, flour, a little mustard, 

 and grated ginger, and give it milk-warm water sweetened with 

 treacle, and keep it near the fire. 



THE PIP 



Is a disease which frequently proves fatal, particularly to young 

 birds; it is, like the roup, caused by want of cleanliness and 

 comfort; it causes inflammation in the tongue, throat, and beak. 

 If mucous appear on the tongue or throat, you will have to 

 remove it, and give a good bolus of fresh butter, with as much 

 Cayenne pepper as you can take up on a fourpenny piece, and 

 keep warm, clean, and comfortable. 



IMMODERATE THIRST 



Is to be remedied by a supply of cabbage, lettuce, or other 

 green food, or boiled potatoes with sweet milk. 



INDIGESTION 



Is frequently caused by voraciously feeding on hard, dry food, 

 such as oats, which having collected in quantity in their crop, 

 requires attention. To cause its removal, the hard, dry food 

 must be carefully discontinued, and soft, watery food substituted, 

 such as mashed carrots, boiled cabbage or greens, or soaked bread 

 and sweet milk, until the crop is entirely softened. If it continue, 

 a dessert spoonful of sweet oil will be necessary ; and if still ob- 

 stinate, 10 grains of jalap, either in ball or liquid. 



