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, called receipts for its cure, and to those 
who have copied such forms of words 
through so many generations.’ Now 
_ surely it must be a matter of some con- 
“sequence, to ascertaim the cause and 
nature of a mulady, if possible, previ- 
ously to the attempt of undertaking its 
cure: the reverse, so perpetuaily prac- . 
_tised, may be well compared to firing a “4 
gun at random, and without taking any © 
.particular aim. 
The roup in poultry, and the glanders 
in horses, (1 have attended to a: great 
number of cases in each,) may, I appre- 
shend, be held. in a considerable- degree 
analogous: generaily referable, in both, 
gto suppressed perspiration, that old-fa- 
shioned doctrine, often so very ably, but 
some how or other, so unsuccessfully, 
confuted. 
disease, a very bigh degree of the com- 
mon malady, called a cold. It is either 
acute, or chronic; its access 1s sometimes 
observed to be sudden; and, as is termed, 
jnflvenzal or gradual; and the result of 
neglected colds, of a series of unfavour- 
able weather, damp lodging, change’ of 
place, and similar causes !—As tender as 
a chicken, is at no rate an unmeaning 
proverb, Chickens are real living ba- 
yometers, affected by every change of the 
weather, and immense numbers of them 
“yare annually lost from that cause; they 
are also liable to a fatal disease, which 
generally supervenes about the tiurd 
“week from their hatching, on the nature 
ef which it is not easy to. decide; but the 
disease is always aggravated by cold wea- 
ther, mere especially if also wet. From 
defect of a better appellation, we call 
this malady, the chip; a constant chip- 
chip, among young chicks, being the 
watch-word of its approach; they next 
array themselves in their great coats, or 
rather their shrouds, hanging their wings, 
and chip-chip-chip themselves to death 
an corners. Very unlike this, is the ha- 
bit of the duckling. They also are oc- 
casionally. liable toa fatal disease about 
the same period of their age, under 
which they run about until they suddenly 
drop dead, the good wives scarcely sus- 
pecting any thing to be the matter, and 
utterly at a loss to account for the fatal 
event; otherwise than through the con- 
wenient mediujin of witchcraft. 
bard of other times, who so sweetly 
sang, | 
Deme, what ails your ducks to die! 
Wat a p——~ ails them? Whata p—— ails 
them? | 
or 
On Poultry and their Diseases. 
IS 
sey 
The roup is an atmospheric: 
The 
(Dec. T; 
was perhaps vere adepius in ducklinoe 
‘logy. a : 
‘This distemper in young chicks may 
be the same, for aught I know, with that 
formerly designated by the name of the 
pip; but there has ever been much un- 
certainty in chickenary, as well as vete- 
inary medicine, in respect to the no- 
n Abuse. However, Lam satisfied I 
G not mistake your correspondent in! his 
case of roup, which he has sufiiciently 
marked, . The roap affects fowls of all 
ages; there is a considerable dischange 
from the nostrils, the eye-lids are swollen 
and livid, the sight decayed, sometimes 
total blindness ensues, the appetite lost 
except for -driak, feathers ruffled and 
dead in colour, respiration noisy and 
difficult, which symptem often remams 
long after the others have receded ; the 
bird sits moping and wasting 1n corners, 
always apparently in torture, from a sense 
of cold, although thé fever run high. — 
But the best illustration I ean give, 
will be by the selection of a case or two 
fron. my wife’s Memorandums, which 
extend some five and twenty years back- - 
ward. I shall begin with the red cock, 
> 
. Isauc, whois now crowing and clapping 
his’ gold-burnished wings before the 
window of my study. . Upwards of five 
years ago, a young cock was brought to 
me, apparently four on five months old, 
and about three-parts game, one part 
Poland. He was nearly in the last stage 
of roup. The discharge from/his mouth 
and nostrils was very considerable, and 
extremely fetid and pungeat. He had 
an ophthulmia truly Agyptic, although, 
like many other ophthalmic patients of a 
diferent genus, he had surely never been 
in Aegypt, nor, in all prebability, ever 
near to any one who had. I sent him 
about to be owned, without the smallest 
success, even at the house of the mag 
who was well known to be his real own- 
er;-and who, in the usual strain of those 
Christian charities exercised towards 
beasts, finding the poor bird diseased and 
useless, turned him out of his comfort- 
able home, when he had most need af 
it, to be worried to death by fellow- 
brutes, or brutes of that other descrip- 
tien, who boast that they reason, reflect, 
and feel; or to perish miserably, and by 
slow degrees under the sufferings of dis- 
ease, hunger, wet, and cold, VT lis Gs a 
branch, or rather a consequence of the 
rational system of Mr.—(I have fo 
his name) who wrote a book 
that we ought not to take aw: 
rotten 
