CHAPTER X 

 PIGEON DISEASES AND REMEDIES 



GENERAL REMARKS 



On this subject no one seems to be very capable of advising 

 except as to chief remedies and that birds should be handled in 

 such a way as to keep them healthy, thus preventing dise^ase 

 and making medicine unnecessary. 



, There are various common, diseases that pigeons are more or 

 less afflicted with and some of these are harmless, while others 

 prove fatal. Later on I will describe some simple remedies that 

 J have found to be fairly effective, bpt cannot vouch for them 

 except in a smal^l way. , , 



, Pigeons are just like people and pigeon doctors are just like 

 atl other doctors. One will haye one theory and a remedy for 

 a certain disease, and another something entirely different.,., If 

 a person gets a headache or stomach troubJe, one doctor will 

 prescribe certain medicines. Another doctor will tell you that 

 you need electrical treatments, another that a change of climate 

 is necessary or a visit to certain springs, or forms,, of violent 

 exercise or dieting will b^ing about certain results,, W(hile another 

 doctor might, want to, massage it out of you and still another 

 pronounce you incurable. All of these various characteristics 

 are found in pigeon doctors, so you can see what a person ,wou,ld 

 be up against trying to follow the various remedies offered by 

 people with different experiences and ideas. To this I mjght 

 add that no one seems to understand the delicate make-up, of, ja 

 pigeon and its anatomy as some of our leading physicians do 

 the human anatomy, Then, too, it is hard to proportion remedies 

 for such a small being as a pigeon and hfird to detect the results. 



You cannot feel a pigeon's pulse or take its temperature suc- 

 cessfully or ask it to describe its ailments. So, as a whole, 



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