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etc. Remedies : Much green herb and fruit, cool fresh air, 

 change of locality ; and when the fit seizes the bird, he 

 should be held in the hand so as to prevent his knocking 

 himself about, and thus sustaining an injury, and also in 

 order to afford him some relief ; I cannot advise the having 

 recourse to the usual barbarous remedies, such as, cutting off 

 a toe, or otherwise bleeding the bird. Canaries which are 

 subject to epileptic seizures are extremely timorous, and 

 emit a peculiar sound while feeding. If the seizure happens 

 once only, it is of no consequence, and only when it is 

 repeated, that the remedies should be applied, and, above 

 all, the cause should be ascertained. Giddiness is produced 

 either by a continuous gyration in the narrow, round cage, 

 or by knocking against a sharp angle, whereby the skull is 

 injured, or by animal parasites in the brain. Symptoms : 

 The head is held in a slanting position, the body is bent 

 backwards, gyrations around himself, reeling, falling back- 

 wards amid convulsions. In the first of these instances 

 only, a cure may be affected by using a square and spacious 

 cage, in the other cases, a cure is scarcely possible. 



Eye - diseases. — Swelling and inflammation of the 

 ligatures are produced by cold. Symptoms : Watering of 

 the eyes, swelling of the lids (aversion to light). Remedies : 

 Moistening with lukewarm solution of " chlor." (1-600); 

 the tunicles and the cornea of the eye may also become in- 

 flamed by knocks or bites. Also cooling with rose water, 

 moistening with a solution of vitriol of zinc or of a mixture 

 of potash and opium (p. 1 : 200, o. 1.) 



Gout. — Gouty and festering inflammation of the joints. 

 Causes : Cold or a hurt ; also sitting upon poles which are 

 too narrow or too angular. Symptoms : Diminishing appe- 

 tite, fever, swelling of the joints of the feet and wings. 

 These swellings are, at first, firm, very red, warm and pain- 



