A CURE FOR ROUP.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 239, 7 October 1903, Page 7

A CURE FOR ROUP.

The North Carolina Experiment Station has had sonic experience in roup, and gives following on this subject: —

A very simple remedy which we have used effectively at the station this year has been strong salt water, in the following manner: When a fowl is affected with n slight swelling around the eyes or a thin, watery discharge at the nostrils, place the bird in a coop in a warm room and apply to the head twice daily the salt water, heated to about 100 dog. Feed on soft food seasoned strong with red pepper, and in a few days the swelling or discharge will entirely disappear. Another good remedy is to bathe the head twice daily with kerosene oil, and inject with a glass medicine dropper (after cleaning the nostrils carefully) one or two drops of same oil in each nostril and the same in roof of mouth.

If the fowl is seen to gasp for breath or has a rattling in the throat, examine carefully, and you will find a white, cheesy substance adhering to the sides of the mouth and throat, and also on end of windpipe. This substance on the windpipe gradually increases and makes the breathing space smaller and smaller until the fowl can breathe no longer, and death is the result. At once, on discovering ihe fowl in this condition, catch it, and, with the aid of another person, open the mouth, and, with a smooth, flat stick or quill, remove the cheesy substance; then sift into ihe mouth and on the end of the windpipe finely powdered sulphur. Keep a close eye on this fowl, and, if needed, repeat the operation- If this substance extends down into the windpipe a cure cannot be affected.

An ounce of Lloyd's hydrastas (colourless) diluted with £:_ equal amount of water, is also a good remedy, when merely a discharge at the nostrils or a nil tl ing in the throat occurs. Inject, with ihe medicine dropper a small amount in the throat and also in each nostril. Oivo them for drink a teaspoonful of this remedy to e;|ch gill of water. This we have used with succe.-s.