POULTRY AND LARGE BIRDS. 381, 
will be engorged with blood; the heart enlarged; the testicles more or less 
changed. 
TREATMENT.—Treat promptly in the beginning. Remove the whole 
flock at once to clean quarters, if possible, affording a dry, gravelly loca- 
tion not previously used, and provide healthful housings. Separate the sick 
and suspected from the others and give to each, if practicable, a place by 
itself. Such isolation is desirable even for such as are supposed to be well, 
to prevent a spread of the scourge. In general, observe as strictly as the 
circumstances will permit, the directions previously given for “ Health of 
Poultry”? and “Precautions in Sickness.” These measures will tend to 
reduce the percentage of deaths, but the saving of all the flock need not be 
expected. 
Fowls which are too sick to eat should have every four or five hours a 
pill made after the following formula of Dr. Dickie: Blue mass, 60 grains; 
pulverized camphor, 25 grains; cayenne pepper, 30 grains; pulverized rhu- 
barb, 48 grains; laudanum, 60 drops. Mix and make twenty pills. After 
three or four pills have been taken, give to each bird half a teaspoonful of 
castor oil and ten drops of laudanum. Give a scanty drink of scalded sour 
milk, with the Douglass Mixture (see page 874) added in such quantities 
that twenty-five fowls will get a gill of it per day. It is also well to add a 
little tannic acid to the Douglass Mixture. Allow no other drink. The 
one here mentioned is recommended even if the pills are not used. If the 
evacuations from the bowels become darker and of a firmer consistence, as. 
they should under this treatment, give a drink of alum-water, or strong 
oak-bark tea, but no other, being careful not to make the change unless 
such a condition of the droppings has ensued. The latter drink tends to 
check the discharges. 
It is evident that the pills prescribed above are pretty “ heroic.’? An- 
other meritorious remedy, especially in the earlier stages, or at any time 
when the crop remains full, is made of ten drops of strong tincture of 
eucalyptus globulus, five grains of common salt and half a teaspoonful of 
ground pepper, forcing it down in a tablespoonful of water (PARKER). 
One writer vouches for the efficacy of the following:—Powdered 
garlic, one ounce; tincture of capsicum, two drachms; tincture of camphor, 
two drachms; tincture of rhubarb, a half-ounce; tincture of opium, one 
drachm; tincture of the oil of peppermint, three drachms; all well mixed 
and then shaken so that the garlic does not settle, the dose being six to eight 
drops in a teaspoonful of water three times a day. 
Since one flock responds to a given treatment more readily than another 
does, we make mention of other remedies which have been tried with more 
or less succes. Take equal parts of red (or cayenne) pepper, alum, rosin 
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