PHEASANT. 
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Those who know a little of anatomy, are aware, that what passes 
down the cesophagus or gullet, can have no direct communication with 
the trachea or wind-pipe ; and, therefore, the rue, which mig-ht be admi- 
nistered as a remedy for worms, in the stomach or intestines, cannot 
reach the seat of the disorder in a direct manner ; and that its nature 
must be completely altered, by the subtle parts of it only having- been 
taken up by the absorbents, and conveyed to these vermes, through the 
circuitous means of the circulation of the blood. We must, therefore, 
attribute the great success of this person, to a meritorious attention to 
the young Pheasants, in keeping them clean, and by administering 
plenty and variety of food, especially such as in their wild state would 
be their infant aliment. That much of this success is to be attributed 
to the locality of situation, experience has clearly demonstrated ; at the 
short distance of a hundred yards, or perhaps less, from where the dis- 
temper fatally rages, a cottager, who continually breeds chickens, never 
discovered that his were ever affected, and scarcely fails in rearing the 
whole of every brood ; which leads us to think, that through the in- 
fluence of a cottage fire, the young chicks are continually inhaling a 
preventative to the vermicular distemper. The smoke of wood or peat 
is saturated with alkali, whose caustic quality either prevents the propa- 
gation, or destroys the worm in its infancy. It is most probably to 
this quality, that the fumes of tobacco have been found infallible in the 
oscitans, as will be more particularly noticed hereafter ; and we really 
suspect that most vegetable smoke will be found to be beneficial. 
Garlic, and the whole tribe of Allium^ appears to have been adminis- 
tered with some advantage as a vermifuge in this case, but is by no 
means to be depended on as certain in its operations. In the advanced 
stages of the disease, it may be administered as a strong infusion, 
which should be the only drink of the birds ; at the same time chives 
or young onions chopped small, and mixed with meal, may be given 
very beneficially once or twice a day as their food, in the early stage 
of the distemper, and before the violent irritation of the vermes has 
caused inflammation. In the advanced state of the disorder, nothing 
is so effectual as fumigation; the inhaling of the steam of medicated 
liquors, or the smoke of some narcotic herb, are the only methods of 
applying any remedy directly to the part affected ; and of these, tobacco 
stands foremost as the readiest, from being so generally in use, and so 
easily applied in the form of fumigation ; and we are happy to say, that 
if it is properly administered, it is an infallible remedy. In order to 
administer this fumigation in sufficient quantity, there is some care 
required, that the chickens are not suffocated. We have repeated this 
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