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POULTRY DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



Table of External Symptoms — Concluded. 



The numlDers in brackets denote tlie pages to be consulted. 



SY5IPT0M. 



Diseases whicb the symptom named ■may indicate. 



Eye, expansion of pupil — 

 Eye, sticky discharge from. 

 Face, swollen 



Droppings, bright emerald 

 green 



Arsenic poisoning (44) , 

 Catarrh (87), Roup (90). 

 Roup (90) . 



Cholera (66). 



Fever, marked. 



Legs, roughened, with 

 scales raised 



Mouth, mucous discharge 

 from 



Mouth, white, cheesy 

 patches in 



Nausea &T1& Yomitii^g.. 

 Neck, bent backward 



Neck, limp. 

 Paralysis . 



Saliva, copious secretion, . 

 Skin, puffed out in blisters 

 Skin, scaly and incrusted.. 



Staggering 



Thirst, excessive 



Tongue, hard and dry 



Tumors on head 



Urates, yellow 



Vent, mass of inflamed tis 

 sue projecting from 



Yent, skin inflamed 



Peritonitis (72) , Aspergillosis (104) , I nfectious leukaemia (114) , 

 Inflammation of oviduct (165). 



Tuberculosis (57), Aspergillosis (104), Rheumatism (123), 

 Scaly leg (135), Bumble foot (202). 



Scaly leg (135). 



Congestion of the lungs (107), Pneumonia (108), Gapes (196). 



Roup (90), Canker (103). 



Inflammation of the crop (34), 

 Copper, lead or zinc poisoning (44). 



Strychnine poisoning (45), Congestion of the brain (119), 

 Wryneck (123). 



Limberneck (123). 



Copper, lead or zinc poisoning (44) , 

 Strychnine poisoning (45), Apoplexy (118), 

 Heat prostration (118). 



Arsenic poisoning (44) . 



Emphysema (194). 



Body mange (144), Favus (147), 



Congestion of the brain (119), Leg weakness (192). 



Hypertrophy of the liver (50), Peritonitis (72), 

 Aspergillosis (104), Tapeworms (76). 



Pip (102), Diseases of the respiratory system (85). 



Roup (90). Chicken pox (150). 



Cholera (66). 



Prolapse of oviduct (167). 

 Vent gleet (177). 



POST-MORTEM E-XAMINATIONS. 



Whenever a bird dies from a cause not entirely clear to the 

 poultryman a post-mortem examination should be made in order 

 to learn, if possible, from the condition of the internal organs 

 what it was that caused death. The poultryman should familiar- 

 ize himself with the appearance of the internal organs in a nor- 



