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Symptoms.— The symptoms of diarrhoea are so evident as to render desoription 

 unnecessary. 



Causes.— A too scanty supply of grain, which necessitates an excess of green 

 food, or an unwholesome dietary of any description, are the usual causes of this 

 complaint. 



TrecOment.— Give five grains of powdered chalk, the same quantity of rhubarb, 

 and three of Cayenne pepper; if this does not speedily check the relaxation 

 give a grain of opium and one of powdered ipecacuanha every four or six hours. 

 Care should be taken not to confound a simple diarrhoea with cholera, which 

 will be 'described further on. 



i^/mptoms.— The symptoms of a cold, or catarrh in fowls, are identical with 

 those so familiar in the human subjeot-T-namely, a watery or adhesive discharge 

 from the nostrils, and a slight swelling of the eyelids ; in worse cases the face is 

 swollen at the sides, and the disease appears to pass into true roup. 



Cmises. — The cause is exposure to cold or dampiiess ; such as a long continuance 

 of cold, wet weather, or sleeping in roosting places open to the north or east. 



Treatmemt.— In. simple cases, removal to a dry, warm situatibn, and a supply of 

 food rather more nutritious and stimulating than usual, soon effect a cure. A 

 little mashed potato, well dusted with common pepper, has been found very ad- 

 vantageous. In severe cases the disease so closely resembles roup that it may be 

 treated in the same manner, , 



itoms. — If the cold, to use a popular mode of expression, settles ol the 

 luugs instead of affecting the head, the symptoms are somewhat different ; there 

 is rattling in the throat, from the accumulation of mucus, which the fowl coughs 

 up and expectorates at intervals. 



Treatment. — Bemoval to a drier habitation is sufficient in almost all cases to 

 effect a cure. In severe cases one grain of calomel and one eighth of a grain of 

 tartar emetic may be given at night. 



\toms. — The symptoms of roup are at first identical with those of a severe 

 catarrh; the discharge from the nostril, however, soon loses its transparent char- 

 acter, becoming more or less opaque, and of a very peculiar and offensive odor; 

 froth appears at the inner corner of the eye, the lids swell, and in severe cases 

 the eye-ball is entirely concealed, the nostrils are closed by the discharge drying 

 around them, and the eye-lids are agglutinated together ; the diseased secretion 

 accumulates within to a great extent, consequently the sides of the face swell to 

 an extreme degree, and the bird, unable to see or to feed itself, suffers from great 

 depression, and sinks rapidly. 



Roup is essentially a disease of the lining membrane of the nasal cavities. 

 This being inflamed, becomes swollen, and secretes the discharge before men- 



