204 The Illu:strated Book of Poultky, 



We may remark, in conclusion, that tlic following will be a useful list of remedies to be kept 

 on hand, and will furnish a tolerably complete MEDICINE CHEST, capable of treating most of the 

 acute complaints usually met with. Calomel, in one and two-grain pills ; opium, in half-grain and 

 grain pills; the chalk and rhubarb pills as given at page 191, for diarrhoea; a small supply of 

 cayenne pepper ; the same of jalap ; and a bottle each of camphorated spirit, M'Dougall's Fluid 

 Carbolate, chlorinated soda (Labarraque's formula), mother tincture of aconite (for colds), and 

 castor-oil ; a small phial of laudanum should also be added. The other remedies named in this 

 chapter are chiefly needed for more chronic complaints, the nature of which gives ample time to 

 procure them as required ; but the foregoing list may occasionally save precious time in treating 

 cases which depend almost entirely on proinplncss in dealing with the first marked symptoms of 

 the attack. 



Sick fowls should always be secluded, unless in very trifling ailments. By so doing, not only 

 is danger of contagion avoided, but the birds have a much better chance of recovery, as if at large 

 they are generally bullied by their companions ; moreover, special treatment cannot be adopted 

 while birds are left in the run. Some persons use poultry-baskets as hospitals, and they will do, if 

 rigidly confined to such purposes, but must never afterwards be used to transmit healthy 

 fov/ls. At best they are too dark and confined, and a few pens about three feet square are much 

 preferable in every way. They can also be readily disinfected after use, and thus be employed 

 when not wanted for hospital use, in preparing fowls for exhibition. The pens we have already 

 advised for the latter object, with this precaution, may thus be made available for both purposes. 





