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success. We strongly advise jalap where that medicine proves efficacious, as it is usually followed 
by a good and even keen appetite ; whereas salts, and still more castor-oil, appear to leave a bird 
more or less sick and unwell. 
Consumption. — See Going Light. 
CROP-BOUND. — Only Pouters seem subject to this. For treatment see page 127. 
DlARRHCEA. — In most cases of scouring we find it best to administer a purge, such as castor- 
oil or jalap, the effect of which is usually a momentary increase of the evil, but followed almost 
immediately by a cure. This plan will succeed in most cases where the diarrhoea is not accom- 
panied by other illness, such as cold or roup, in which event the treatment must be directed gener- 
ally as in those disorders. [The diarrhoea may, however, be so severe as to pass into dysentery , 
which is known by the evacuations being streaked with blood. In that case one to three drops of 
laudanum may be administered in a tea-spoonful of gruel. If that failed, as a last resort a grain 
of tannic acid may be administered, combined with the laudanum ; but this medicine has such 
powerful astringent properties that it should only be tried when all other means have failed. A 
few drops of chlorodyne have also been known to have good effects. — Ed.] 
Egg-BOUND. — The treatment for this affection has been given at page 38. [When all other 
means have failed, we have sometimes known the egg laid successfully after the administration of 
a tea-spoonful of treacle given warm, with a little groundsel minced very fine. Or the groundsel 
may be given in the treacle. — Ed.] 
Eyes Weak or Diseased. — Highly-bred short-faced Tumblers, as already stated, are 
peculiarly subject to diseases of the eyes, the treatment for which, so far as we can advise any, has 
been given at page 182. 
FALLEN Gizzard. — The name by which this disease, so well known to breeders of Carriers and 
Barbs, has always been recognised, is founded on some old and ignorant error, the gizzard having 
nothing to do with it. It is, in reality, a displacement of the bowels, or prolapsus. It seems to 
chiefly attack the hens, though the cocks are also subject to it ; and the first symptom is usually 
a little soft swelling at or round the vent, but which rapidly becomes harder and larger, and 
ultimately causes death. In bad cases we have known the bird die in the hand as if gasping for 
breath. We know of no cure for it. It is strange that young birds thus afflicted will sometimes 
breed, but unfortunately the progeny usually show a decided tendency to the same affection. It 
is more common for a hen so affected to breed than for a cock bird to do so. 
[We have sometimes thought that in the early stages of this complaint an astringent injection 
might be of service, followed by a stream of cold water upon the vent for a few minutes. Should 
any readers wish to experiment in this way, very weak solutions of tannic acid, or sulphate of zinc, 
may be suggested. — E d.] 
FRACTURES. — Fractures of the leg or wing are not unfrequent. In the case of a wing, all that 
can be done is to sling it up in the best manner possible, which will be generally in the mode 
shown at page 383, when a cure may usually be looked for, though at the expense in most cases of 
a stiff or deformed wing. Broken legs, however, having the joints more accessible, can be treated 
