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dQUTH AUSTRALIAN 
June 1, 1908 
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pine tar or aught else would have no 
curative effect in many cases here. Out- 
ward applications of vaseline, oil or other 
greasy material are certainly useful in the 
way of allaying painfulness of the sores 
and reducing irritation, but the disease 
has to go through its various stages, ter- 
minating in the scabs dropping off. 
- Consequently we have to fall back on the 
remedies suggested by Lewis Wright, 
Mrs Rawson, and others: small doses of 
magnesia and sulphur, with strengthening 
food throughout the period, with an occa- 
vaseline, etc. 
sienal application of oil, 
_ Should the scabs become prematurely Te- 
- moved, thus leaving a raw lookiny sore, 
one of the best healing ointments can. be 
prepared as follows:— 
Powdered oxide of zinc, 80 grains 
Glycerine, 1 drachm 
_ Lanolin, 1 drachm 
Lard, 6 drachm. ; 
Melt the lard and lanolin together, add 
the glycerine, and stir in the zinc until 
the ointment sets. The most simple and 
- effective way to apply the ointnent is 
with the finger. 
Before leaving the subject it choad be 
- mentioned that there are some poultry 
keepers who attribute the disease to mos- 
quitoes. The best answer to the above 
at time of writing, 1s that mosquitoes are. 
as plentiful as they can be but there is 
_ nochicken-pox. There, however, is no 
- “War Surgery,” by 
doubt that these irritating and disease 
carrying insects interfere in delaying the 
course of the disease, though in no way 
responsible for 1ts outbreak. 
(To be continted) 
Beware of Carbolic “Reid. 
A medical man givesa decided warning 
against the free use of carbolic acid on 
poultry. In reply to the query, Would 
you please explain why some people claim 
that they have had great success in cur- 
ing diarrhoea in their chicks by the use of 
-carbolic acid, when others eieia the con- 
trary? he svys:— 
As to the wonderful Bronertion of car- | 
bolic acid I shall herewith give for your 
own benefit and that of all readers an 
extract from the price crowned work on 
Professor Esmarch, 
M. D., the world-famed surgeon and pro- 
fessor ‘uf surgery, 4 surgeon genersl of the 
first class in the German army, and a 
member of most of all the important 
scientific bodies of the globe. He says:— 
Carbolic acid isa very effective anti- 
secptic. A watery solution of 1100 stops 
upon longer contact the development of 
microbes, the germ development becomes 
entirely inhibited, though only after a 
twenty four hour’s contact with a con-— 
~ centrated solution of 5: 100. 
Solutions in 
oil or alcohol are, according to Professor 
Kocb without any antiseptic effect. But 
carbolic acid is very poisonous, and that 
not on internal usecnly For even when 
applied externally in the form of washes 
compresses, etc, to wounds. abrasions of 
skin, and even the normal skin, it is 
easily absorbed into the system and does 
(particularly in children, but also in those 
adults who are suffering from cachetic — 
conditions, anemia, kidney troubler etc.) 
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