214 POULTR?Y-CRAFT. 
Roug.—The term is used to apply to a variety of diseases affecting the head and 
throat. The present tendency is to limit the use of the word roup to diphtheria, or 
diphtheritic roup, and to call ordinary roup not seriously affecting the throat, influenza. 
Influenza can be treated as acold. For diphtheria a number of different treatments have 
been successful at one time, and failed at another. Whether or nota cure can be effected, 
probably depends as much on the constitution and antecedents of the fowl as a treatment. 
Most of the roup remedies advertised have been successfully used in many cases. Exper?- 
enced practical poultrymen do not doctor fowls which have diphtheria. They killand bury, 
or burn them. For those who wish to try to save their birds, the following remedies are 
given: 
One ounce oil of sassafras, one ounce best Jamaica ginger, one ounce tincture of iron, 
one ounce alcohol, a half-ounce prickly ash fluid extract, one-fourth ounce oil of anise. 
Dose, fifteen drops to one teaspoonful to each gallon drinking water. 
The following treatment, suggested by A. V. Meersch, has been successfully used in 
many cases : — Clean out the pus, if in the mouth, with a little wooden spatula; if you 
make it bleed a little, don’t be alarmed. When this is done, wash the mouth with cotton 
wadding, attached to a little stick of wood, saturated in peroxide of hydrogen, then drop 
a little aristol on each sore place; repeat this operation morning and evening for three 
days. 
Dr. H. A. Stevenson reports having both cured sick birds, and immunized others by 
injecting antitoxine. 
Worms are properly parasites. Two kinds affect fowls. Mound worms are quite 
common; tape worms rare. The presence of worms is not often detected except by 
examination after death. Ifa bird dying is found to have had worms, give well members 
of the flock turpentine in the soft food in proportion of two or three drops of turpentine 
to each fowl. 
White Comb —a scurfy condition of the comb, due to unsanitary surroundings; use an 
ointment — heaping teaspoon oleate of zinc to half-teacup of vaseline — wash the comb 
and head with carbolic soap and warm water before applying. 
Wind Puffs— due to injury to lung tissue; relieved by pricking, but not always 
curable. 
314. Hospital and Medicine Chest.—For the simple treatment, of 
which the object is to check incipient, rather than cure established disease, 
the poultryman should have an isolated building, small, but comfortable, and 
should keep on hand a few of the remedies most efficacious in checking 
common diseases. It is prompt work that counts. 
315. Parasites. 
Lice probably exist in small numbers wherever there are fowls; but as long 
as fowls are healthy and active cannot increase rapidly enough to seriously 
annoy the birds. On sick and injured fowls, scaly legged fowls, sitting hens, 
and very young chicks, they thrive when the general stock is comparatively 
free from them. Frequently they come in in force on new fowls. It should 
be an inviolable rule to treat new fowls thoroughly for lice before permitting 
them to mingle with the flock, for the lice not only annoy fowls, they carry 
the germs of infectious diseases from fowl to fowl. The most effective means 
of ridding fowls of lice are given below, quoted from Wood. 
(See also 
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