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with five drops of carbolic acid, injected up the nostrils with a sewing 

 machine oil-can once a day, is also good. Sulphate of copper, half a 

 grain; cayenne pepper, one grain; hydrastin, half grain; copaiba, three 

 drops; Venetian turpentine (enough), to make a pill night and morn- 

 ing. Lotion — Sulphate of copper, quarter ounce, dissolved in a pint 

 of rain water, to wash out the mouth and nostrils if required. This 

 is considered a specific among English poultry breeders. In dis- 

 eases of the nasal membranes, throat or air passages, pills are too 

 slow, because they are too far from the seat of the disease, and to be 

 effectual to distant parts, they must work through sympathy. Tinc- 

 ture of aconite and nitrate of potash in the drinking water in the 

 proportion of a teaspoonful of each to a pint of water, proves very 

 successful, but in bad cases three drops of the tincture twice a day 

 in addition to the medicated drinking water should be given. Feed 

 sick birds on cooked soft food. 



Diphtheria. — This is a dangerous disease and contagious. The 

 mouth and throat are filled with white viscous fluid, like thick saliva, 

 with small white ulcers. It can be distinguished from cancer by 

 the former showing several patches in the mouth and throat, 

 while cancer seldom developes in more places than one at a time. 



Treatment: — Iron and sulphur being specific for diphtheria, 

 perchloride of iron for swabing and mixing in the drinking water 

 and the patches frequently rubbed with sulphur, and sulphur blown 

 down the throat with a stout straw or quill, will generally effect a cure. 

 A teaspoonful of a solution of chlorate of potash, which is prepared 

 by dissolving a teaspoonful of chlorate of potash in a glass of water, 

 given three times daily, with a little in the vessel where the other 

 fowls^.drink, is attended with good results. Sprinkle the mouth, 

 tongue and throat with a mixture of chlorate of potash and burnt 

 alum or powdered borax. Mix powdered charcoal plentifully in 

 the soft feed, and give cayenne pepper in powder, two tablespoon- 

 fuls with one teaspoonful of salt, and put both into a half pint of 

 boiling water; let thenii stand an hour and strain off the liquor. 

 Next put this liquor into a half pint of strained vinegar and warm it 

 over the fire. Of this medicine give a half teaspoonful every few 

 hours. 



Diarrhoea.— This disease is often mistaken for cholera, by the 

 color of the evacuations. 



Treatment .-—Five grains of powdered chalk, five grains of rhu- 

 barb and three grains of cayenne pepper, or one grain of opium and 

 one of powdered ipecacuanha every four hours. Ten drops of laud- 



