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success has been reported from the application of an 

 American coal-tar preparation called Cresolene,* ten drops 

 to a pint, applied as a lotion, especially to the inside of the 

 mouth and throat ; but, as this is difficult to procure, 

 experience is not sufficient to pronounce positively. 

 Finckler's tincture of Papaine, so far as it has been tried, 

 also appears to exert a most marked effect upon the 

 diseased secretion. Any outbreak in the yard may too 

 probably give ample opportunity for the trial of each and all 

 of these remedies. 



There are symptoms, not to be confounded with the 

 above, of an obvious catarrhal cold or roup with apparently 

 sore places or ulcers inside the mouth, not, however, 

 forming a skin or membrane. This appears to be more oi 

 the nature of quinsy or thrush, and may be often dealt with 

 satisfactorily by isolation and warmth, with slight aperients 

 of Epsom salts (say 20 grain doses), and application 

 frequently to the sore places of borax and honey. But such 

 cases should be very, carefully watched for fear of mistake, 

 and lest, after all, they be instances of true diphtheria. 



The more serious disease appears to be more or less 

 communicable both to cats and human beings ; and a grave 

 responsibility, therefore, attaches to keeping cases about 

 where there are children. Bodies of all fowls which die of 

 it should be either burnt or buried in quicklime. 



Gapes is a fatal disease of chickens, due to the presence 

 in the windpipe of a number of small worms, which finally 

 kill by either wasting or actual suffocation. A solitary case 

 may sometimes be cured by camphor in the water and a 

 small pellet twice a day, removing the actual worms by 

 introducing a feather stripped nearly to the top, or a loop 

 of horsehair, into the trachea, and turning it round during 



* Not to he confounded with an English preparation termed Kresyline. 



