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symptoms are staggering gait, partial or total in- 

 ability to swallow, various muscular contractions 

 and delirium. 



Treatment is seldom effected, especially in 

 violent cases. Mild forms frequently respond to 

 cathartics, blisters on the neck, spine and throat. 

 These give some relief. Small doses of aconite are 

 also believed to be helpful. Some writers place 

 choking, distemper, grass staggers, and blind stag- 

 gers along with this brain disorder. 



CHARBON.— See Anthrax. 



CHEST FOUNDER.— See Navicular Disease. 



CHICKEN CHOLERA.— Chicken or fowl cholera 

 is a germ disease, and contagious. It attacks poultry 

 of all kinds. Diarrhoea is a prominent symptom of 

 the disease. Bad food or improper food may ag- 

 gravate the trouble, but the germ introduced into 

 the system either in food or drink, is at the bottom 

 of it. At first the droppings will take on a whitish 

 color. Diarrhoea will then result. The discharges 

 will then become thin and watery, to be at times 

 frothy and greenish in appearance. Fowls thus 

 attacked soon lose their appetites and become stupid 

 and take on a sickly appearance. The head drops 

 toward the body, the eyelids fall, and the fowls 

 stand around as if doped. Some recover, but, un- 

 less checked, the flock will be materially injured. 



Of course dead fowls must be burned at once and 

 lime and other disinfectants used to keep the dis- 

 ease from spreading. The well birds must be kept 

 apart from the infected quarters. Care must be 

 exercised that infection be not carried either by 

 visitors or attendants from the sick to the healthy 

 quarters. A common remedy consists of i part of 

 sulphate of iron to 50 parts of water for drinking 

 purposes. Another common remedy is to mix a 



