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and then insert the head into the solution, comb down, so 
the medicated water may enter the clift in the palate and go 
out at each nostril and into the throat. Each should be 
separately treated. 
Kerosene injected into the nostrils is good; also cam- 
phorated sweet oil. Ten drops of coal oil or kerosene added 
to a pint of water for a flock of twenty fowls will often 
effect a cure. When this remedy is applied, do not attempt 
to prepare one of the flock for table use for three or four 
weeks thereafter, as the entire carcass will be tainted with 
coal oil. 
Important. — In treating roup, be careful to remove the 
affected fowl from those apparently healthy, and thoroughly 
disinfect the fowls' quarters. Watch the flock carefully and 
at once isolate any that may show signs of the disease. 
Remove also any discharge from the nostrils that may col- 
lect on the feathers under the wings or on the breast. Be 
sure and protect the sick fowls from all drafts and feed 
easily digested food. When the fowls look stupid and 
droopy, feathers rough atid no appetite, reduce their food 
to even fasting. 
3. Inflammation of the Windpipe. 
Causes. — It is usually the result of exposure. 
Symptoms. — The symptoms are similar to an ordinary 
cold. The breathing, of course, is interferred with and there 
is in some instances a sort of wheezing and rattling in the 
throat. Open the fowl's mouth wide and examine the throat 
and windpipe. It is found to be quite red and there may 
also be some phlegm present in the passage. 
The inflammation may extend far down the pipe and 
affect the branch tubes leading to the lungs, thus constitut- 
ing a case of bronchitis, or the upper part only may be af- 
fected, being a case of laryngitis. 
Treatment. — Treatment in both cases is practically the 
same. In mild cases treat as a common cold. Should the 
inflammation become severe it may be necessary to make 
the treatment somewhat special. 
Procure a box, say 2 ft.x3 ft., and sufficiently high to 
allow the patient to stand in it. Place a quart of bran in a 
saucepan and pour upon it a quart of boiling water and 
