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VERMINOUS DISEASE AMONG FOWLS. 
too often, not only carry desolation into our menageries, but even 
depopulate entire farms. 
1 will state a few facts which I have observed relating to our 
domestic poultry; and that my little history may have some preci¬ 
sion and order, I will narrate them as they occurred in the localities 
which I was tiien compelled to visit, and state the symptoms and 
the prophylactic and curative treatment which I adopted. 
Case I.—In May and June, 1804, I had to struggle with a 
cliarhonneiise epizootic which prevailed among the cattle of the 
commune of Saint Evroult de Notre-Dame-des-Bois. While that 
epidemic continued, or when it was drawing to a close, M. Seelies, 
a landed proprietor in that commune, lost in the space of six weeks 
nearly fifty fowls. Not knov/ing to what other cause to attribute 
this, and seeing that his poultry-yard was too likely to be quite 
depopulated, he thought that the malady of his fowls Avas of the 
same nature with that which destroyed the cattle of so many of his 
neighbours, and he requested me to examine into the case. 
On the 17th of June, 1804, he shewed me five pullets, three of 
which had died on the 16th, and the other two on the morning of 
the day on which I arrived. 
Sy^mptoms .—The prevailing symptoms of these Avinged bipeds, 
as they were described to me, Avere, ceasing to lay—dulness—pale¬ 
ness of the crest—separating themselves from their companions— 
the little resistance against being caught—the Avings hanging doAvn, 
and even training on the ground. In some of. them the feathers 
Avere not only roughened, but stood almost upright; these had a 
colliquative diarrhoea, accompanied by severe colicky pains, shewn 
by their frequent and sudden crouching, and as sudden rising 
again. They had also frequent tremblings, followed by quick and 
laborious breathing, and they refused food of every kind. These 
symptoms continued a longer or shorter period of time, until death 
terminated their sufferings. They Avere sometimes slow in their 
progress, but gradually became more evident in proportion as the 
disease was established. 
Post-mortem appearances .—I first had them stripped entirely of 
their feathers. They were all very thin. I remarked in the first 
of them, that the crop, devoid of food, contained a small quantity 
of mucous and spumy matter, mixed Avith granules of sand and 
gravel. The lungs Avere of a pale colour, and presented nothing 
particularly Avorthy of notice. The liver Avas in a healthy state. 
The gizzard contained only a small quantity of gravel, and a very 
little food. In the intestine, at two inches and a half from the giz¬ 
zard, I remarked an enlargement nearly three inches in length. 
On opening it, I dreAV out no fewer than tAventy-seven Avorms, 
Avhicl^Avere so heaped and tAvisted together, that they obstructed 
