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OX A VERMINOUS DISEASK IN POULTRY. 
move. He is exercised morning and evening for about half an houn 
I gave a ball containing aloes 3 !, calomel x grains, resin §ss, mixed 
with soft soap. 
ll/A.—Pulse and respiration much the same, and I cannot per¬ 
ceive any difference in the swellings. He is more tucked up in 
the flanks: on whatever part of him I press my hand it appears to 
give him pain, and he eats but little. Continue the ball as before, and 
give exercise in the evening; and then let a ball be given of gin¬ 
ger 3 ij, gentian 3 ij; cantharides iv grains. 
Vlth .—Appears a little better. Continue the medicine morning 
and evening as before. He has eaten some bran and oats to-day. 
13^A.—He walked to Aldgate, and remained there^ for the day. 
Continue the medicine as before. 
14/A and 15^A.—He appears to be mending. I gave ginger 3 iv, 
gentian §iv, cantharides vj grains. Continue the exercise. 
16^A.—He was sent to Leyton, a distance of five miles. Six 
balls, as before, were also dispatched with him, one to be given 
every day, and the horse to be turned out for an hour or two, with 
an extra cloth on, when the weather was fine, and to have any 
thing he likes to eat. 
I saw him on the 28th, when he was mending fast. He is turned 
out in the day, and taken into a large box at night. He is feeding 
well, and was sold with several others in May, when he appeared 
to be perfectly recovered. 
ON A VERMINOUS DISEASE IN POULTRY. 
[The following letter is from a gentleman in Somersetshire, who 
spends many an, otherwise, idle hour in the rearing of chickens, 
and who, like most other breeders, has frequently suffered from 
an epidemic disease, which thins his poultry yard, and the pro¬ 
gress of which he cannot arrest. The agent of mischief seems 
to be the same as that with which M. Blavette, in the paper which 
follows and illustrates this, had to contend. It is an interesting 
subject, and any communications would be thankfully received. 
If our country friends would send us a history of the cases which 
have occurred in their experience, and a few carcases of those that 
have perished by this verminous malady, we should be exceed¬ 
ingly thankful. This would be still further widening our sphere 
of usefulness, and carrying out the legitimate purposes of our 
profession.—Y.] 
Sir,—I TAKE the liberty of writing to you on the subject of a 
disease in chickens, and which I believe exists in pheasants and 
partridges. It commences by something like an attempt to cough. 
