28 ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 
a distinct knowledge as to the seat of the disease. 
Swollen, bloodshot, or roupy eyes, occasioned by cold, 
should be bathed several times a day with warm water, and 
I have found in the case of poultry a perfect cure result from 
the use twice daily of a drop of weak solution of Vind Opi, 
with a tincture of Hammemelis in equal parts, which can be 
prepared by any chemist. During this treatment the bird 
should be well fed, and kept in a warm place free from draught. 
Opthalmia, of a virulent type, occasionally attacks 
waterfowl. The symptoms are shrinking of the globe of the 
eye, which is covered by a thick film, accompanied with profuse 
discharge, which carries away by degrees the actual tissues 
with the inevitable result of blindness and probable death. 
This disease is highly contagious, therefore the patient should 
be immediately isolated, and the eye bathed with a lotion, 
composed as follows :— 
Liquor of Atropia_... as ... 15 drops. 
Sulphate of Zinc 353 ; ... Io grains. 
Liquor of Permanganate of Bois 
(Condy’s Fluid) } Se: nope: 
Water to half a pint. 
This lotion may be used twice a day, mixed with warm 
water in the proportion of one tablespoonful of lotion to one 
tumbler full of warm water. The sponge must be used for 
no other purpose, and burnt when no longer needed. 
This lotion may also be used as drops for the eye, if 
bathing is not convenient, putting one drop into the eye four 
times a day. I have only once, however, seen a case of 
recovery from this complaint which almost invariably destroyed 
the sight. 
The greatest caution should be observed in thoroughly 
disinfecting with hot lime-wash and Condy’s Fluid the house 
