292 THE PRACTICAL POULTRY KEEPER. 



Meantime obtain at once from the nearest chemist a bottle of 

 ordinary chlorate of potass and perchloride of iron mixture 

 every chemist makes it up, and any will do and also a 

 bottle of the following dressing : 



Carbolic Acid , ... I drachm. 



Sulphurous Acid ... ... ... ... 3 ,, 



Tinct. Perchloride of Iron ... ... ... 4 ,, 



Glycerine ... 4 ,, 



With a camel-hair or sable pencil touch all the parts 

 which show growths, morning and evening, with this latter 

 dressing ; and six hours after the salts begin to give one- 

 quarter ordinary adult doses* of the chlorate and iron mixture, 

 feeding meantime on the best soft food, unpeppered, but 

 mixed with warm brandy-and-water : an occasional egg-and- 

 brandy between two fowls is also of much service. Great 

 care must be taken in anointing the throat ; and occasionally 

 a bird may be so irritated by a drop "going the wrong way" 

 as to choke and die. These cases cannot be helped, some 

 such dressing being absolutely necessary ; but for bantams 

 and chickens the lotion may be diluted with one-third 

 water. If the mouth and throat appear healing, while there 

 are sores outside which make no progress, these may be 

 treated with lunar caustic as an alternative. When the 

 worst symptoms are alleviated, after treatment must be 

 guided by circumstances, according as there may be 

 diarrhoea or the reverse ; or roup may remain and have to 

 be prescribed for. 



A treatment occasionally successful has been the im- 

 mediate application to every spot attacked of lunar caustic ; 

 but, on the whole, cures have been rare with this. More 



* These and other quantities refer to fowls of good size and vigour. 

 Smaller fowls and bantams may have from two-thirds down to one-third of 

 the quantity. 



