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vanishes, and they put on their long great coat, or 

 rather shroud, and sit chipping, pining, and dying 

 in corners; always apparently in torture, from a 

 sense of cold, although to the touch they seem in a 

 high state of fever. This disease seldom admits of 

 remedy ; but I have tried mustard in water, crams, 

 with a small quantity of black pepper, and afterwards 

 nitre, given in the water. The sun, or warmth in 

 the house by the fire-side, are the best remedies. 

 The fire is a great restorative of all young, indeed of 

 all animals. 



For grown fowls affected by the roup, warm lodg- 

 ing is necessary, and even the indulgence of the 

 fire, or the warmth of the bake-house. Wash the 

 nostrils with warm soap and water, as often as ne- 

 cessary, and the swollen eyes with warm milk and 

 water. A pepper-corn in a pill of dough, three 

 following days, is an old and favourite remedy, the 

 patient being much chilled. Afterwards bathe the 

 swollen parts with camphorated spirit, or brandy 

 and warm water. As a finish to the cure, give sul- 

 phur in the drink, or a small pinch of calomel in 

 dough, three times in a week. The fowls being 

 weak and not feeding well, the old remedy of rue 

 chopped and made into pills with fresh butter, may 

 be substituted for calomel ; though I must acknow- 

 ledge I could never find any perceptible effects from 

 the rue pill. 



The common symptom of GAPING, during this in- 



fluenzal disease, induced the learned, a few years 



past, to coin a new disease under the name of the 



GAPES, which they conveniently attributed to a spe- 



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