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the extent of two grains to each fowl, for three or four 
days, the evils of the ravage may be stayed. 
But in treating those bad cases described above, if the 
patient is so full of canker as to be unable to eat, we 
must administer the doses. 
At the time of the Portland exhibition, I had sent to 
me a patient in the shape of a fine Light Brahma. The 
bird did not arrive until I had left for the exhibition; 
consequently, it was three days before I could attend to 
him, When I retured I found him in the following 
deplorable condition: His mouth was as full as it could 
possibly be of canke.; his head was swollen till both eyes 
were closed, and face and comb were broken out with 
dry canker, or, as some poultrymen call it, chicken-pox. 
By the use of a large syringe, I injected the bird’s crop 
full of milk in which four grains of bromide had been 
dissolved; I then gargled the mouth and throat with 
kerosene in the way described above. 
We see many recommendations to remove the canker 
by forcible means; this is the very worst thing that can 
be done (inhuman and retards the cure). In the case of 
the Light Brahma, by gargling the throat three morn- 
ings, the fourth morning nearly all the canker slipped 
off, leaving the mouth smooth. I administered the milk 
and bromide for the four days also. 
The head, as I have described, was a swollen, shapeless 
mass. I felt that the case was a hopeless one, and, al- 
ready knowing the curative properties of the oil for 
canker in the throat, I bathed the head, face, and throat 
with the oil, repeating the operation the second morn- 
ing, when I noticed here and there small blisters on the 
throat, and a decided improvement in the looks of my 
patient. I then on the fourth morning applied the oil 
again, when the swelling subsided, and he opened his 
eyes and commenced to eat a little, and from that time 
improved rapidly; the blisters of course dried down. 
