THE ABDOMEN 



from a broken egg, causing septic inflammation; it is propagated in copu- 

 lation and hence may spread in a yard or be introduced by an infected 

 male. A hen found with it should be at once isolated and the male care- 

 fully examined, and if necessary isolated and treated. 



Treatment 



' Prepare a warm bath of water as hot as it can be borne on the wrist. 

 Add to two quarts of this hot water one teaspoonful of creolin. Remove 

 the scabs from the ulcers and immerse the fowls' abdomen and vent in 

 this hot water and hold the bird there from fifteen to twenty minutes. Then 

 dry the parts and apply a little unguentine to the sores and to the vent 

 rubbing it well in with the finger. Place the bird in a clean dry coop well 

 bedded with straw, and feed sparingly on dry grain to which a little gran- 

 ulated charcoal has been added. Repeat the treatment once a day until 

 the bird is cured. 



Mr. Lewis Wright recommends "a dose of 30 grains Epsom salts, and 

 twice a day inject first a 4 per cent solution of cocaine and immediately 

 afterwards a solution of nitrate of silver 4 grains to the ounce. The fifth 

 day commence a small copaiba capsul daily and inject acetate of lead 1 

 dram to the pint. Peed rather low meanwhile and dust any sore places 

 outside with iodoform or aristol. If not well after two or three weeks we 

 would kill the bird as the disease is not quite free from danger, for if the 

 operator should touch his eyes aceidently before he has cleansed his hands, 

 the result might be a most violent inflammation. 



"Many of the symptoms so closely resemble those' of gonorrhea that 

 identity has been suspected by some, but we have never been able to detect 

 in the discharges by any of the usual microscopical methods a true gono- 

 coccus. 



