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also the paste, and cover the cage so the bird will not 

 try to sing. This treatment should be continued for 

 some days until the hoarseness disappears. 



ASTHMA OR HARD BREATHING. When this results 

 from a cold, give the paste and whiskey, and also the 

 raw, fat, salt pork cut into bits like seeds and put red 

 pepper on it. A teaspoonful of quite warm milk with 

 bread in it is good, and a bit of sponge cake soaked 

 in sherry wine may be put in as a separate dish. All 

 these remedies should be given fresh two or three 

 times a day. Withhold the canary seed and moisten 

 the rape seed so the dust will all be removed and the 

 hulls will be made soft. Use Holden's Bird Cure No. 

 5 for asthma. 



DIARRHCEA. This is caused by a cold, or by poor, 

 musty seed, or foul drinking water. Cure the cold, or 

 change the seed and water. Drop with a dropper 

 which has a rubber bulb to force the fluid out, three 

 or four drops of table, or olive, oil in the bird's mouth ; 

 put a rusty nail in water with four drops of brandy. 

 Put a good pinch of pulverized chalk, common chalk, 

 in the bottom of the cage with the gravel. If the 

 disease continues twenty-four to thirty-six hours with 

 any severity, put two to four, or even more, drops of 

 paregoric in the water. The cage should be cleaned 

 three times a day, and fresh gravel, which has been 

 warmed, strewn in it. Another remedy is to give 

 from five to fifteen drops each of elixir of vitriol and 

 of tincture of opium in the water. When the bird 

 gets better continue the egg food, without pepper, or 

 give some of Holden's Song Restorer, as a bracing 



