DOGS, CATS AND POULTRY 
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ruffled, the appetite gone, the eyes closed, the head drooped 
and may frequently gape. An examination of the mouth 
shows the membrane lining to be inflamed, red and swollen. 
The throat is also affected and clots of phlegm collect in 
Fig. 114. Suffering from Roup. 
the back of the mouth and entrance to the throat. If still 
unchecked, sort of boils form on the head comb and about 
the eyes, sometimes also in the mouth and on the tongue. 
These symptoms as outlined indicate severe physical de- 
rangement, which soon results in death. 
There are many remedies for roup, but we think the 
following, as is given in "Success With Poultry," is one of 
the very best: 
Treatment. — Pen the fowl in warm, dry quarters, and keep 
out all drafts of cold and damp air. Feed hot bran, mashed 
potatoes and meat, and medicate the throat, mouth and nos- 
trils with chloride of sodium or "common salt, as follows: 
Take a bucketful of warm water; put a teacupful of salt in 
this amount of water ; then catch the fowl, examine the 
throat and nostrils, removing all mucous matter out of the 
nostrils. Fill a pint cup for each afflicted fowl, hold it by 
the feet — head down, choke it until the mouth is wide open 
