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1. A saturated solution of common salt. Medium dose, half a teaspoonful.
2. Antimonial powder 1 gr., with sopped bread, twice a day. - Clater.
3. Garlic, rue, brickdust, and butter, beaten together, and a little crammed down thethroat.
4. For wet roup in pigeons. Give 3 or 4 pepper-corns in 3 or 4 days. - Moore.
5. For dry roup. Give 2 or 3 pills of garlic every day. [Some recommend assafoetida to be mixed with the food of Poultry, whenever they manifest disease by drooping their wings.]
Open the tumour, and squeeze out the collected oil.
1. Pills of sulphur, turpentine, and wheat flour. - (' Veterinarian,' Oct. 1840.)
2. Oil of turpentine 2 drs., linseed oil 1 oz.; or oil of turpentine 2 drs., flour enough to make it into 20 pills. For 20 doses, one every other day for 3 or 4 times.
3. Tobacco smoke.
Give a grain each of calomel and antimonial powder, daily.
1. Change the diet and give whole wheat or rice; and if obstinate, cram clown small pieces of the following mass: - Chalk, p. caraway, and syrup of poppies. - Clater. 2. Put chalk in their water, or give forge-water.
If the obstruction is in the crop, endeavour to force the contents into the gullet and mouth by gentle pressure, When partially emptied give rue and butter.
When the obstruction is in the bowels, give bran and pollard, mixed with a little greasy hot liquor, to which, if necessary, a little sulphur may be added; or give a tea-spoonful of the castor-oil mixture (see No. 8, Medicines for Dogs, Physic Balls). - See Chipping.
1. Wash the mouth two or three times a day, with a mixture of equal parts of tincture of myrrh and water.
2. Rub the sore with common salt.
3. Solution of chloride of soda 1 dr., water 1 oz., honey of roses 3 drs.
 
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