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CANARY BIRDS, 



ful, later they become soft, and contain a moisture composed 

 of blood and pus. After that, they grow hard again, and 

 contain a bilious and cheesy substance. Sometimes, after 

 some weeks, they heal of themselves, but usually a permanent 

 thickness of the joints remains, or a slow emaciation, wanness, 

 strong diarrhoea and death from exhaustion, may, in some 

 cases, be the consequence. Remedies : Dryness and warmth ; 

 if the swelling is inflammable and hot, cooling with lead or 

 vinegar-water is advisable, friction with spirits of camphor. 

 Also wrapping-up in warm woollen stuffs. If the swelling is 

 festering, it should be cut, but not too soon; brushing out 

 with carbolic acid and water (1-200), also squeezing out; 

 but in both cases a dose of salycil-acid and water (1'500) 

 will be given internally ; the unsuitable sitting poles must be 

 removed at an early stage and must be replaced by proper 

 ones. 



Rheumatic Complaints which appear as a painful 

 paralysis without any swelling of the joints, and which are 

 likewise produced by cold, principally by draughts, I have, 

 as a rule, cured by means of friction with warm oil, and by 

 wrapping up the affected limb with a warmed woollen cloth. 

 It need not be said that the patient must be kept in a well- 

 warmed room. 



Wounds of birds generally heal of themselves, after 

 having been cooled by washing them out with a sponge 

 saturated with water. In the worst case, they are cleansed 

 with arnica- water (1-25-50), and then brushed out with 

 oil of carbolic acid (1-200 Provence-oil). Likewise, if a 

 bird is entirely left to itself, the healing usually takes 

 place in a very short time. Every wound of a bird, if not 

 very large, closes itself in this manner that the nearest 

 feathers and other light stuff over it stick to the blood, and 

 thereby a bandage is formed by nature of itself. 



