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of water to one of the carbolate ; swab the throat with the 

 undiluted carbolate three or four times a day ; give soft 

 food, with flour of sulphur mixed with it, and put a little 

 of the latter w^ith the drinking-water. 



McDougall's Fluid Carbolate should be kept by every 

 drug or general merchandise store ; it is a most valuable 

 remedy, being a neutral solution of carbolate of lime and 

 sulphate of magnesia, and entirely free from corrosive or 

 irritating effects, yet combining all the most valuable prop- 

 erties of both carbolic and sulphurous acids. 



If, however, this carbolate can not be obtained, there are 

 other remedies to take its place. 



An ounce of chlorate of potash and an ounce of crushed 

 sugar to a half pint of water should always be kept ready 

 for use in every poultry-yard. The water only dissolves a 

 certain proportion, and no more, of the salt, and it should 

 always be made as strong as possible ; in other words, a 

 "saturated solution." The sugar serves the double pur- 

 pose of loosening the phlegm in the throat of the bird, and 

 by disguising the saline taste of the chlorate makes it more 

 easy to administer. 



Chlorate of potash, in the above proportions, is a splen- 

 did remedy for the human throat as well as that of poul- 

 try ; it removes canker and ulceration in the mouth and 

 throat, cools and allays fever, and by its inward action 

 destroys all traces of canker in the system, and thus ren- 

 ders the cure a permanent one, in this being unlike merely 

 local remedies. As long as any chlorate remains undis- 

 solved in the bottle more water may be added, taking care 

 that the proper proportion of sugar is kept up. 



To adult fowls give a teaspoonful of the solution three 

 times a day, or oftener, if the case is severe, also swabbing 

 the throat and mouth thoroughly with the same an equal 

 number of times; and here it is well to observe, in swab- 



