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wards I gave it fifteen grains of jalap, and, as it was evidently 

 better the next day, I repeated the jalap pill for four successive 

 nights, and it now appears quite well and feeds heartily. 

 After the first dose of jalap its droppings were green and 

 highly offensive. I mention all this, as I have never seen a 

 Fowl similarly affected." L. B. 



The roup is an affection of the head, from which birds that 

 are really attacked seldom recover, and when recovered, are 

 still more rarely strong afterwards. It is the "pituita" of the 

 Roman writers, which they characterize as "infestissima," 

 most hostile to Poultry. A copious and offensive discharge 

 flows from the nostrils, in bad cases from the eyes also; indeed, 

 the whole head occasionally seems to suppurate. The creature 

 is stupified by suffering, and blinded also by the disorder. 

 All that can be done is to keep it in a warm dry place, to wash 

 the head frequently with warm vinegar and water, to cram the 

 bird with nourishing food when it cannot see to eat, and to 

 protect it from the cruelties of other Fowls. A solution of 

 sulphate of zinc, as an eye-water, is a valuable cleansing appli- 

 cation. Rue pills, and decoction of rue, as a tonic, have been 

 administered with apparent benefit. Cleanliness, warmth, 

 dry ness, and good feeding, will, in a measure, keep off the 

 evil, but we cannot expect entirely to eradicate it from a race 

 of creatures so far removed from their native country as our 

 Cocks and Hens are. Fowls are seldom affected by the roup 

 before they are at least three quarters grown. 



We now produce one or two surgical cases. 



"Perhaps it may not be generally known that Fowls are 

 injured by eating hops. I mean the hops that have been used 

 in brewing and thrown aside. I had a Cock of a valuable 

 breed that appeared ill one morning, moping, and scarcely 

 eating any food at all. We tried all the usual remedies with- 

 out effect, when it occurred to me that the crop was more dis- 

 tended than ordinary, I therefore made an incision, and took 



