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of running about in a lively manner, it 

 droops and becomes stupid and stationary. 

 It frequently raises its head and gasps as 

 if for want of breath. From this symptom 

 the disease is called the gapes. This is ac- 

 companied by frequent and violent sneez* 

 ing. If the disease is allowed to run on, 

 this state continues for a week or ten days, 

 when the chick dies, quite emaciated. 

 There is usually much fever, and the tip of 

 the tongue becomes white and horny. The 

 cause of this disease is the presence of small 

 red worms, called Fasciola trachea* in the 

 windpipe. 



Cure. The most common remedy, and, 

 as I think, the most absurd, is the introduc- 

 tion of a whole pepper-corn down the throat. 



* This animal is known under the name of Fasciola trachea, 

 and is figured and described in the Transactions of the Wer- 

 nerian Society of Scotland, vol. i., p. 194, pi. 7, fig. 4, by Col- 

 onel Montagu, with the following characters : 



Poultry Fluke. With a round cylindrical body, tapering at 

 the posterior end ; a large arm or stalk extends from the side, 

 and terminates in an aperture used as a sucker, by which it ad- 

 heres to the windpipe . Colour, red ; length, about an inch , di- 

 ameter, not half a line. Peculiar to the windpipe of young 

 poultry. 



