DISEASES OF CHICKENS TREATMENT 347 



plying to walls. If properly applied one pint of this mixture will cover one 

 square yard. Coloring may be added to make any shade. It will retain 

 its brilliancy for years. For inside of poultry houses, add 2 pints of carbolic 

 acid for disinfectant. 



Pip. 



Pip is sometimes a dry condition of the tongue appearing in several 

 diseases of the air passages, such as catarrh, bronchitis, roup and pneumonia. 

 It is a symptom of disease, not a disease itself. 



Pip, or the dry condition of the tongue, is produced by the rapid passing 

 ovec the tongue of feverish breath combined with increased temperature of 

 the body. 



Symptoms. The end of the tongue becomes hard and dry and eating 

 becomes difficult. 



Treatment. Study the whole bird, finding out the trouble underlying 

 this one symptom and treat the real disease. 



Give soft food for a day or two, and 20 grains of Epsom salts for two 

 mornings. Wash the mouth with water containing boric acid. Paint the 

 tongue twice a day with glycerine or olive oil. 



Rheumatism. 



This is a disease affecting all parts but is more noticeable in the legs. 



The causes of the ailment are exposure to cold and dampness, the feeding 

 of too much animal matter and not enough vegetable matter. There is some- 

 times a hereditary tendency to this disease. 



Symptoms. The symptoms of rheumatism and leg weakness are not al- 

 ways distinguishable. One of the first symptoms of the former is the jerky 

 walk and the joints become swollen. . Inflammation and pain in the joints and 

 muscles cause the bird to sit down most of the time. Trying to straighten 

 the limbs hurts the bird. 



Treatment. The treatment also suggests the line to follow in the pre- 

 vention of the disease. The birds should be housed in dry, sunny quarters and 

 fed an abundance of green vegetables not forgetting clover mash. For internal 

 treatment iodide of potassium is highly recommended, fifteen grains to every 

 quart of drinking water. Use small dishes so it will all be used while fairly 

 fresh. This is good for chicks as well as old fowls. 



Rub the swollen parts with extract of witch hazel two or three times each 

 day. Common baking soda, 1 level teaspoonful to each quart of drinking 

 water, has given good results. Give 20 grams of Epsom salts followed the 

 next day by fifteen grains bicarbonate of soda to each pint of drinking water. 



Roup or Contagious Catarrh. 



This disease in poultry closely resembles the more malignant forms of 

 catarrh or influenza in man and is very contagious. 



It is caused by a specific germ closely related to the germ that causes white 



