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aggravated cases of long standing, where the 

 patient had lost his voice, and experienced 

 great difficulty in breathing. I have, however, 

 found the Specifics unfailing in cases of this 

 kind. 



If your bird seems feverish, i. e., drinks often, 

 but does not eat, proceed in the same way, 

 using the Fever Specific. 



Looseness and binding of the bowels are 

 treated exactly the same way that is, by using 

 the proper Specific remembering, however, 

 that in the former trouble green food should 

 be taken away, and in the latter more should 

 be supplied. In the case of looseness, a rusty 

 nail in the drinking-cup is thought to be use- 

 ful, and, if he will eat it, boiled milk and bread. 

 In bad cases of constipation a drop of oil is 

 sometimes very desirable, and it can be easily 

 administered without scaring him into fits by 

 catching him and thrusting it down his throat, 

 as is generally recommended. 



This is the way : take a small glass medi- 

 cine-dropper, and draw into it a drop or two 

 of the oil you wish to give, which I hope I 

 need not say should be of the same kind you 

 would give a child. Holding the oil at the 



