892 THE VETERINARY DOCTOR. 
tive of disorder in the liver; in young chickens, sometimes sinking of the 
breast-bone. 
TREATMENT.—Give less food and only such as is soft, mild and easily 
digested. Limit the drink. Give cut green grass or chopped onions in 
the food. See Crop-Bound, Constipation, and Diarrhea. 
LIVER DISEASE. 
This name, used in all domestic practice with such an indefinite mean- 
‘ing, is here applied to a disease of the liver which causes loss of flesh, a 
sickly appearance about the comh, wattles and head, and sudden death, 
The liver, upon opening the dead fowl, is found soft, with cheesy matter in 
‘different parts of it, and sometimes a broken blood-vessel. It is said to be 
more common in Cochins. It is best to destrov an affected fowl at once. 
One authority recommends small doses of mercury followed by cod-liver 
oil and Parrish’s Food as being of measurable value. 
CROP-BOUND AND WATER-CROP. 
The crop may become engorged in consequence of the swallowing of 
a bone, hard corn or other indigestible food which closes the passage into the 
stomach.. The latter organ being empty, hunger may induce the taking of 
more food, and thus aggravate the difficulty. Indigestion alone may cause it. 
Tn addition to the hardness of the crop, the fowl is uneasy and tosses its head. 
TREATMENT.—Give very little or no food for a time. If this does 
-not afford relief, pour down the throat some warm water and gently knead 
“the crop for an hour, or until its contents are soft, then give two teaspoon- 
‘fuls of castor oil. If the difficulty still persists, take a sharp knife and cut 
a slit an inch long, more if necessary, in the top or at the side, and remove 
the contents gently but thoroughly with the handle of a spoon, afterward 
passing the finger, previously oiled, all over the inside, to be sure that 
everything is taken out (particularly from the opening toward the stomach). 
‘Sew up the external skin with white silk, or, better still, with surgeons’ 
thread, being careful not to stitch it to the crop, and leaving the wound in 
the latter to heal of its own accord. Anoint the parts with witch-hazel 
oil. Give no food or drink for twenty-four hours, and for a week there- 
after only a small allowance of soft, easily-digested food. 
By water-crop is meant a form of crop-bound which results from 
‘greediness in taking drink. The crop is not so hard and may contain wind 
or gas with the water. The disorder is corrected by cutting down the 
‘feed and the drink for some days, and putting chopped onions or garlic, or 
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