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give a five-grain tabloid of salicylate of soda twice a day, 

 and rub well into the joints any stimulating embrocation; 

 any one of those so commonly advertised is more or less 

 effective, or turpentine will do. Chaulmoogra oil is said to 

 be specially good. Rheumatism can generally be apparently 

 cured, the first time or two ; at the same time, a rheumatic 

 fowl is a weakly fowl, and to such our remarks at the com- 

 mencement specially apply. 



Roup is caused by wet or very cold winds, if it ever does 

 arise spontaneously ; many think it purely contagious. It 

 is certainly quite distinct from mere catarrh, though the 

 symptoms resemble these to a certain extent. The leading 

 features are a high state of fever, with an offensive-smelling 

 discharge from nostrils or eyes, or both, or sometimes 

 hanging about in froth, but more often tending, after a few 

 days, to become thick. Any fowl attacked should be at 

 once secluded, and everything it has used be disinfected 

 with carbolic acid for the sake of the rest. The fowl must 

 be kept in a moderately warm and dry place, and given at 

 first half a teaspoonful of Epsom salts, washing the head and 

 organs affected with Labarraque's solution of chlorinated 

 soda, diluted with twice its bulk of water, or dioxide of 

 hydrogen diluted in the same way, twice or thrice a day 

 all through the attack. The food should be slightly 

 seasoned with cayenne. A few hours after the oil give a 

 copaiba capsule, and continue these every twelve hours till 

 the discharge yields, giving a second dose of salts on the 

 third day. After recovery the fowl should be quarantined 

 for a few days, and be given a last wash with the chlorinated 

 soda before being returned to its companions. If copaiba 

 capsules cannot be readily procured, nearly all the advertised 

 " roup pills " are more or less beneficial, or the following is 

 a good prescription : Cayenne pepper, 20 grains ; copper 

 sulphate, 10 grains ; copaiba, I fluid drachm. To be made 



