1^6 ACCOUNT OF TKF FASCIOLA TRACHEA. 



vourite remedy ; but it may be proper to remark, 

 that my chickens, affected at this time, have been 

 under a course of that medicine since the first ap- 

 pearance of J.he distemper, and that so far from 

 yielding to it, the malady increased during its 

 administration, and one chicken, as before men- 

 tioned, had died. Under this disadvantage, in 

 the advanced state of the disorder, the former pre- 

 scription was given, and its good effects were vi- 

 sible in two or three days, and the whole brood 

 is now in a state of convalescence. 



I shall not attempt to reason upon the curative 

 principle of the medicine prescribed, but leaye 

 that matter to those better qualified to judge on 

 the subject. If the remedy has any real merit, 

 (and there is every reason, from experience, to 

 give it some degree of credit), it was not, I believe, 

 originally administered with any knowledge of 

 the cause of the distemper, but as a country 

 housewife's nostrum, and adopted with as little rea- 

 son, as many others, which have, by accident, been 

 discovered to be beneficial. 



It may be proper to remark in this place, that 

 this vermicular distemper, seems to be peculiar 

 to the young of the common domestic fowl, since 

 neither my turkeys, nor ducks, all of which are 

 reared together upon the same spot, have ever 

 been attacked. 



Whether, upon further experience, the remedy 

 here prescribed, may be found a specific or not, 

 it will be admitted, that the discovery of the cause 



