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ently with good effect. The patient 
seemed perfectly recovered and thriving ; 
but probably, for want of effectual and 
continued attention, the disease had 
alternate recession and accession, until, 
on a sudden change of weather, a dis- 
charge from the nostrils ensued, so pre- 
‘walent and fetid, as to aifect the atmo- 
| be similarly affected with disease from a “ring north-east win ec 
weatBer, all have been pining, 
sphere of the place. 
course, the hen was killed. 
an additional motive. The cock Isaac 
became unwell, the gaping syinptom, as. 
#f somewhat stuck in his throat, was par- 
ticularly prominent. He recovered, how+ 
ever, ina few davs, bat the circumstance 
occasioned a revival of the old question, 
~ Wasi he really infected by the white 
hen, or did they both receive their ma- 
lady from the general atmospheric cause? 
As fashion requires, my wife and I took 
Opposite sides of the argument, and the 
dispute was waged with much animation ; 
nor will [, to this hour, acknowledge 
myself to be worsted. There can be no 
doubt of the power of infection in putrid 
suiasmata, but the matter must kaye sufii~ 
cient time in which to acquire putridity. 
to adevree sufficient for infection; on 
On Pouliry and their Diseasess 
As the shoves 1e 
There was | 
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distemper in’ young dogs, “Only remedy 
warmth. Might be cured in @ hot-housg. 
Chicken bitten by a rat; many with their 
heads raw ‘from fighting: brandy, with 
two or three drops of landanum, proved 
a good application to the wounds, not’ 
only in disposing them to heal, but from 
the scent preventing the others pecking 
the wound, which they are invariably 
disposed to de. 
drops of laudanum, m water, appeared 
to hasten the death of a weak chicken, 
A dose of two or thrge 
a ee 
(I have, in two cases, ohserved the same — 
effect of laudanum with infants.) 7 
July 27, 1803.—Heat succeeded By 
sudden rain. Martality among chickens’ 
of all sizes amazing. ‘Large young cocks: 
and pullets wasting away 5 rooped; glane 
dered. Said in the neighbourhood, 
there waga chicken-plague. Disease oc- 
casioned by the weather, beyond possi 
bility of doubt. Prevention, by shelter 
against atmospheric vicissitudes. Won- 
derful change from the vast heat of ‘the 
ege and of the body of the hen toa cold | 
and piercing: air. ae 
August 6.—Full four score chickens 
lost during this season, by disease. 
the other hand, a number of animals will . August 25.—My opinion settled. Du- 
sudden atmospheric cause. The dread- 
ful consequences of sudden or inordinate 
abstractions of anima! heat, and the in- 
“sidious attacks of the consequent dis- 
eases, have never been duly appreciated, 
even by medical men. Perhaps it may 
net be too much to assert, that no man 
¢an be thoroughly au faéé in this science, 
who does not himself stand in the first 
rank of cold-catchers. 
Roupy hens should be instantly with- 
drawn from the rest, were it only for 
€leanliness sake, and their necks wrung 
by those who are too wise to encounter 
trouble. If a cure be aimed at, they 
should be kept rigidly separate, until per- 
fectly sound, and by no means suffered 
to breed; for I recollect in [iampsnhire, 
on breaking the eggs uf such, their con- 
tents were black and putrid, The dis- 
temper, however, which is merely influ- 
énza, taken on its first access, 15 easily 
removed, 
Exiracts from Memoranda, Septem- 
Ser 9, 1807.—Wind north-west, sharp. 
a most wonderful effect on all the 
Young, even to the’ full-grewn stock. 
Rouped instantly, feathers staring, dis- 
charge at the nostrils, breath and skin 
fetid. "Fhe roup mere influenza—glan- 
‘ders; -and' the disease of the young 
ehieks, before seasoned, similar to the 
je te 
y> as fe 
dsand cold, influenzal 
thin, and 
sickly. Ona shade of change to the 
south side of the east, with sun, all re- 
vive. In the bad stage, the large chick- 
ens lean, light as feathers, and blind 
like Spanish gheep from a similar cause. 
Blighting weather, wet or drought, €x- 
tremes of cold or heat, fatal to chickens : 
in genial and seasonable: weather, all 
safe. This is the true history of the 
roup. The -old poultry, in the mean 
time, frequently remain very slightly, or 
totally, unaffected. 
May 12, 1809.—Sudden very hot 
weather had an ill effect on all the chickss 
One had a fever so highly inflammatory, 
that its body Lutmed my hand to: the 
very marrow, like actoal fire. Gave 
nitre in milk ad water at might. In the 
morning, the chicken cool and. brisk, 
Repeated the dose, in toolarge a quan- 
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titv, and bropght ona cold, fit. The 
fever changed to an intermittent, but. 
the patient recovered and-madea good 
fowl. After all, perhaps most advan- 
tazeous, as surely least: troublesome, to 
destroy all diseased chicks, and calcu 
late only on the strong. To doctor 
numbers | 4ndividually, impracticable. 
The distress and everlasting » -chip 
of the sick, distract the hen, an vent 
the proper care of her broods : 
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