DOGS, CATS AND POULTRY 
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and the comb or wattles are badly lacerated, stitch the parts 
carefully together with fine white silk thread, and treat as 
an ordinary wound. Keep the patient separated from others 
until it is entirely healed, as other birds are inclined to pick 
at it. 
5. Fungoid. 
Fungoid is contagious and birds affected should be at 
once isolated. 
Causes. — It is usually the result of improper care and 
injudicious feeding. 
Symptoms. — It aflfects the comb and wattles and first 
appears in the form of small lumps containing a hard core. 
In the course of three or four days these small boils break 
and discharge a yellowish, watery fluid. The affected por- 
tions are itchy and cause scratching, which in turn promotes 
the progress of the disease and causes bleeding. 
Treatment. — If the bird affected is not valuable, it is 
best to kill it and burn the carcass, especially if the disease 
is well developed. Should the disease be detected in the 
early stages treat as follows: 
Tie the legs three or four inches apart to prevent 
scratching the head. Bathe the comb twice a day with luke- 
warm carbolic water (5 drops to a pint), wipe dry and apply 
the white lotion. The diet should be nutritious and mixed 
and given to the bird warm. Supply plenty of fresh, pure 
water and keep the patient in a warm, dry, well ventilated, 
light place. 
6. Pip. 
Causes. — Pip, as it is called by many poultry men, is 
the after-effect of some weakening disease such as roup or 
cholera, although it may make its appearance in fowls that 
have attained a run-down condition because of improper 
feeding or care. 
Symptoms. — The most noticeable indication apart from 
the generally deranged physical condition is in the tongue, 
which becomes coated with a fairly hard coating. 
Treatment. — With a penknife or some other convenient 
instrument carefully remove the coating and wash the tongue 
with lukewarm water in which has been dissolved a little 
common salt. Correct the improper diet and otherwise give 
careful treatment in housing and the improved condition 
soon gives satisfactory results. 
