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milk and bread, given warm, or an arrowroot biscuit, soaked 

 in warm milk, will be found beneficial. This treatment may 

 be continued for two or three days, until the biliary secre- 

 tions are reinstated. If these remedies prove abortive, discon- 

 tinue the dandelion and senna, and add from twenty to thirty 

 drops of antimonial wine to every two ounces of water given 

 to the bird to drink. Should these remedies prove unavail- 

 ing, there is no hope of ultimate recovery. 



Hysteeia. — This is a nervous affection, and one to which 

 many birds are liable. It is not a dangerous complaint, like 

 Epilepsy, but the symptoms in a severe case might easily be 

 mistaken by an amateur for a mild attack of that complaint. 

 Birds subject to Hysteria very often go off in a fit if taken 

 to the open air from a room, and invariably do so when 

 caught by the hand for any purpose. They immediately 

 swoon away, and utter a peculiar cry, as of fear. The best 

 remedy is to dash some water over them, when they generally 

 come round in a few minutes ; but they have a dazed and 

 bewildered look for some time afterwards. Birds suffering 

 from this malady should be fed on nutritive but not stimu- 

 lating diet, and should occasionally have a mild aperient ; 

 a few grains of magnesia added to their drinking-water is 

 the best. They should likewise have half a teaspoonful of 

 Parrish's Chemical Food in a wineglassful of water, to which 

 ten to fifteen drops of tincture of henbane has been added, 

 and stirred well together. This should be given once a 

 week, and allowed to remain in the drinking-trough, which 

 should be of glass, for two days, and in cold weather it 

 might remain three days, but not longer. 



Inflammation of the Bowels. — See Enteritis. 



Inflammation of the Liver. — See Hepatitis. 



Joints, Swollen. — See Swollen Joints. 



Limbs, Broken. — See Broken Limbs, 



Liver, Inflammation of the. — See Hepatitis. 



Loss OF Voice. — If a bird gets a severe cold . during the 

 moult, or at any other time, and there is inflammation of the 

 larynx or windpipe, it will probably lose its voice. This dis- 

 order may arise from various other causes. In such cases 

 give a scruple of gum arable (the elect gum) and twenty or 

 thirty drops of paregoric, in a wineglassful of water, in the 

 place of ordinary drinking water. The bird, when it has nearly 



