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cases cannot be promptly treated it is better to use 

 the hatchet at once and bury deeply, or burn the 

 carcasses. This is the proper plan in every case 

 where birds become very ill before they are discovered. 



Sick birds should in no case be allowed to run 

 with the flock and to eat and drink with them. 



In giving the following remedies I make no 

 pretence to a scientific handling of the subject. 

 Homeopathic remedies are given along with the 

 common drugs. Readers can " pay their money and 

 take their choice." 



When the former are used they should be pur- 

 chased of a homeopathic physician or homeopathic 

 pharmacy. In administering them to fowls able to 

 eat and drink, fifteen or twenty pellets, or five to ten 

 drops of liquid, may be put in a pint of drinking 

 water, or the water may be used to moisten their soft 

 food. If administered to the sick bird directly, a few 

 pellets, four or five, or a tablespoonful of the medi- 

 cated water may be put down the patient's throat four 

 or five times a day. 



Fevers, from colds, fighting of cocks, etc. Symptoms : 

 unusual heat of body, red face, water}' eyes and watery discharge 

 from nostrils. 



Give dessertspoonful citrate of niagnesia and, as a drink, 

 ten drops of nitre in half a pint of water. 



Homeopathic remedy-— Aconite, 3, in drinking water. 



Apoplexy and Vertigo, from overfeeding or fright. 

 Symptoms : unstead}' motion of the head, running around, loss 

 of control of limbs. Give a purgative and bleed from the large 

 veins under wing. Homeopathic— Belladonna, 3. Give a light, 

 non-stimulating diet and keep in a quiet place. 



Paralysis, from highly. seasoned food and over stimulating 

 diet. Symptoms : inability to u.se the limbs, birds lie helpless 



