septic solution and gently puncture the skin in several 

 places. This will allow the air to escape, but will not 

 always affect a cure after the first operation, hut this 

 should be practiced several times before a permanent 

 cure is affected. 



GOUT. 



A name given to a disease of a scrofulous nature 

 affecting as it were the feet and legs of a bird has been 

 termed the Gout. It is usually caused by tuberculer 

 infections and attacks of great severity of pain is caused 

 without doubt by an exposure to damp weather. 



Symptoms: The joints become greatly swollen and 

 contain a great amount of heat caused by the inflamma- 

 tion. The hock joint is the one chiefly affected. After 

 the disease is allowed to run its course the lumps be- 

 come greatly enlarged caused by the formation of the 

 deposits. 



Treatment: Paint the affected parts with Tincture 

 Iodine and remove the bird to dry and quiet quarters. 

 Feed only the plainer grains, no hem])-seed, and add 

 a few drops of Syrup Iodide of Iron to its drinking 

 water. Ofttimes the deposits can be removed consider- 

 ably by applying an oil such as sweet oil or castor oil 

 to the swellingfa for several days in succession. 

 FUNGOID. 



Fungoid, a disease commonly termed Small Pox. 

 It is an exceedingly contagious disease and one of a 

 very malignant nature. The large wattled variety of 

 pigeons are the ones most subject to this malady. It 

 is usually found in lofts which are overcrowded, impure 

 and foul air accumulating thereby and the birds are 

 compelled to inhale it time and again. It is contracted 



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