BIRDS. 



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Cause. — Indigestion arising from unsuitable food. Eating 

 meat or picking bones nearly always constitutes the reason of 

 eczema with parrots. 



Treatment. — A few grains of bicarbonate of potash in the 

 drinking water, and the application of flour to the skin. 



EGG-BOUND, 



Cause. — Food of too fattening a nature and insufficient 

 exercise. Fowls kept in confinement, and cage-birds, are the 

 most frequent subjects. 



Treatment. — Hot vapour bath to the parts. A wide-mouthed 

 bottle or earthenware jar with some scalded bran in it, will 

 answer the purpose if the hen is held over it to feel the effects 

 of the vapour. Canaries and other small birds can be held over 

 an egg-cup thus filled. A very spare diet and a dose of olive 

 oil are also recommended. 



EGG PASSAGE, INFLAMMATION OR 



Through the breaking of an egg in its passage, serious 

 inflammation sometimes occurs. In small birds very little beyond 

 the steam-bath above mentioned can be advised, but with fowls 

 it is possible to use a syringe, and so by careful manipulation we 

 may remove the broken shell and thus pass the soft parts. 



EYES, INFLAMMATION OR 



When not associated with roup or other infectious diseases, 

 inflamed eyes are generally the result of fights and injuries 

 received in other ways. 



Treatment. — Bathe with warm milk or a very weak lotion 

 of sulphate of zinc (two grains to the ounce of water). 



