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cies of fasciola, infecting the trachea, or windpipe, 

 of poultry. For the roup and other diseases, and 

 the exposition of customary cruelty, see an article 

 in the Monthly Magazine of December, 1810. 

 Pheasants and partridges, in their wild state, are 

 also liable to the gapes, and from the same atmo- 

 spheric cause. This symptom was observed very 

 prevalent among them during the very variable sum- 

 mer, 1821. 



The head being raw, and the eyes blinded from 

 fighting, wash the eyes as before directed, and the 

 head, which, after washing, may be alternately, ac- 

 cording to need, dressed with fresh butter, and with 

 brandy in which has been infused two or three drops 

 of laudanum. A hen sate about in corners, and nei- 

 ther ate, drank, nor evacuated, yet looked full and 

 not diseased. Her CROP was totally obstructed. On 

 an incision being made from the bottom upwards, a 

 quantity of new beans was found, which had vege- 

 tated. The wound being stitched properly, imme- 

 diately healed, and the hen suffered little inconve- 

 nience. A cock's SPURS being too long, impeding his 

 walk, and wounding his legs, they should be cut care- 

 fully with a sharp pen-knife, but not too near the 

 quick, every three months. 



PIGEONS, also, are subject to the ROUP, under- 

 standing by that term, a cold, or catarrh, the symp- 

 toms of which are too visible in the miserable crea- 

 tures exposed to sale hung up in baskets, in all 

 weathers and currents of air. Garlic in pills, and 

 rue given in water, are the general remedies. Shel- 

 tered places, with room for exercise, and warm 



