PREVENTION, SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT IOI 



tannic acid, gr. v ; — one of these in an ounce of peppermint water, 

 and the dose of either is one tablespoonful for fowl, or one teaspoon- 

 ful for pigeons, hourly. 



Prophylaxis includes : Taking healthy birds away from the in- 

 fected premises. The dead should be burned and also all discharges 

 from the sick. Before the henhouse or yard are occupied by the 

 well the premises must be thoroughly disinfected by scraping and 

 putting fresh dirt on the yard ; by cleaning and washing floors, 

 roosts and walls with boiling water; by fumigating with sulphur; 

 by washing with 5 per cent, carbolic roosts, walls and floors; and 

 finally by applying whitewash containing 5 per cent, carbolic acid. 



Frost Bite. 



Frost bite attacks particularly the extremities, and in horses 

 the region about the coronet is affected. The damage is due to 

 venous stasis and is — like that of burns — divided into three degrees : 

 (1) of superficial inflammation (chilblain of man) ; (2) of vesicula- 

 tion; and (3) in which deep destruction of tissue and gangrene 

 occur. In the beginning, all forms should be treated alike in 

 gradually restoring warmth to the part by rubbing with snow, or 

 rubbing the part immersed in cold water. The temperature of the 

 stall or premises must be low for the first twenty-four hours. 



In the mild form a stimulating remedy, as the official turpentine 

 liniment, may be rubbed into the part. With vesiculation and gan- 

 grene the treatment is similar to that in burns (see p. 41). 



Glanders and Farcy.* 



The name Glanders includes both glanders and farcy. Farcy 

 refers only to the external form of the disease, although internal 

 lesions always exist as well. Glanders is a disease of the horse, 

 ass and mule, communicated readily to the dog, cat, rabbit and 



*The writer is indebted to Circular No. 78, U. S. Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry on Glanders and Farcy for some matter herein. 



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