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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON DISEASE IN POULTRY. 
In a Letter from F. King, Sen. M.R.C.V.S., Stanmore. 
I have been on a visit to a friend who has suffered much by a 
loss of poultry : one hen had died just before I got there. The only 
history I had was, that she was full of fat and eggs, and had laid 
one the day before she died. Another became amiss, with drooping 
tail, and feathers generally upstaring, and no desire for food. I 
felt her crop, which was not half full, in which I could discover 
some barley. She would creep away any where to be private. 
The third day she died. 
Post-mortem examination shewed that the intestines held no- 
thing ; the gizzard held some pebbles, and the inner coat of it was 
corrugated and hard, and of a dark olive colour. The crop had 
some barley in it, and a small quantity of dead leaves — I should 
say, privet leaves. She was fat, and full of eggs — two or three 
quite the size of a yolk. 
In two days, another became ill with precisely the same outward 
appearance. 
I examined the crop, which handled just as the former one. I 
gave her a dessert spoonful of ol. olivae, and let her go. 
The next day presented no alteration, the crop handling just as 
the day before. I handled it, and turned its contents quite over 
and over, and gave two spoonfuls of oil. The third day no im- 
provement, except the crop feeling a little emptied. I examined 
her skin, and observed the veins running over the sides to be 
turgid ; so much so, that I determined on opening them, and drew 
away blood from each side. The fourth day much the same : 
repeated the bleeding, and, as she had not eaten any thing, had 
a little rice boiled to a pulp and put down her, and repeated that 
dose the next day, when she began to mend. She was so weak 
that she could not stand on her roost ; but has now become per- 
fectly well. 
A MEMBER OF COUNCIL’S REPLY TO “ ONE OF 
THE INJURED PARTY.” 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, — I n your last number there is inserted a letter signed 
“ A Subscriber, and one of the injured Party,” so grossly inaccurate, 
that some notice must be taken of it. It smacks so strongly of all 
