82 COLD AND INDIGESTION. 



COLD. Keep the bird in a very warm place, and 

 give a few bird peppers ; into a glass of water put ten 

 drops of aconite, and every hour pour a teaspoonful 

 down the bird's throat. Second remedy : Clean the 

 bird's nostrils with a feather dipped in salt water, and 

 then moisten them with the oil of almonds. Rub the 

 beak and throat externally with a solution of chlorate 

 of kali one part, and twenty parts of hot water ; let 

 the bird inhale tar vapor, putting the tar in a bottle, 

 one part of tar to twenty-five parts of hot water. 



INDIGESTION. Give a plain, light diet of unhulled 

 rice, and a few sunflower seeds ; but little green food or 

 fruit, some salt, and tepid drinking water, with a tea- 

 spoonful of lime water in it ; a teaspoonful of warm 

 Bordeaux wine can be poured down the bird's throat. 



CONSTIPATION. Use warm castor-oil and olive-oil 

 in equal parts, dropping it into the vent or passage 

 from the head of a pin ; after several repetitions, large 

 masses of excrement pass away; give a dose of ten 

 drops of castor-oil, with half a teaspoonful of honey, 

 once or twice a day. Feed hemp and sunflower seeds 

 in equal parts. 



DIARRHOZA. Keep the bird in a warm place, feed 

 unhulled rice, and give a half cracker soaked in brandy, 

 on which sprinkle red pepper. In severe cases, put 

 five drops of paregoric into a teaspoonful of boiled 

 milk, and give this full dose every three hours. 



BLOODY DIARRHCEA. Give four drops of laudanum 

 in a teaspoonful of boiled milk every three hours. 

 Give no fruit or green stuff, and do not allow the bird 

 to drink water, unless it has had some tincture of iron 

 put into it. 



