CHAPTER I.
Hogs have at times been known to have practically all of the diseases common to other domestic animals. However, in spite of unsanitary surroundings and manner of life, these diseases are very rare, and (in the United States) when a hog gets sick it probably has hog cholera.
Hog Cholera
There are two forms of hog cholera, the acute, and the chronic: however, since the only difference of importance is the length of time the disease takes to kill the hog, it is not worth while to try to decide which form it is.
Symptoms.—The hog has fever; appears dull and sleepy; lies down and does not want to rise or move about; the eyes are red and bloodshot, with a discharge which often glues the eyelids together; and a watery diarrhea.
Treatment.—There is no known cure for hog cholera; prevention is the only thing.
In this respect the serum gotten up by the U. S. Department of Agriculture has done more than anything else to eradicate the disease.
There are two methods of inoculating the hog, the single and the double.
In the double method the anti-toxin is injected into the hog and also a quantity of the disease germs, this produces a lasting immunity.
In the single method the anti-toxin alone is used, this only produces a transient immunity unless the hog is soon after exposed to the disease, in which case the immunity becomes lasting.
The single method should be used where cholera has already broken out in a herd, to protect the animals which have not yet acquired the disease; in all other cases the double method should be used.
A farmer should not attempt to give the serum unless he has had considerable experience with it and seen competent people properly administer it; otherwise call in a Veterinarian, his charges will be less than the value of the hogs that would otherwise be lost.
PART VI.
Diseases of Poultry
CHAPTER I.
Doses and Methods of Preparing the Remedies for Use.
One drop or PART of a DROP is quite sufficient as a dose for an ordinary fowl. One drop of any remedy put into a teaspoonful of water or milk, and this put into a teacup so as to be thoroughly mixed, is a sufficient dose for FIVE FOWLS of full size, or ten chickens.
Where a flock or several fowls are to be treated, drop ten drops of the proper remedy into a cup, to which add ten teaspoonfuls of water, milk or curdled milk, and after stirring it thoroughly with a perfectly clean spoon, mix this with the meal, grain or bread, or whatever food is given them. If the quantity of fluid should not be sufficient to properly moisten the food, more can be added without detriment, provided the mass be thoroughly stirred and mixed before wetting the food. This would be enough for fifty fowls. Some will get more and some less, of course; but each will probably get enough to answer a curative purpose, and none will get so much as to be injurious.
If a bird is so ill as not to eat or drink, and the Remedy must be given by hand, the mouth may be gently opened and two or three drops of the mixture, made in the proportion of one drop of the Remedy to a teaspoonful of water, may be turned down, or the fluid may be turned on soft food and thus given, at the intervals mentioned under each separate disease.
Bread soaked in milk or water, cooked cracked wheat or curdled milk is, in general, the best food for sick or ailing fowls.
Aspergillosis—Brooder Pneumonia
This disease affects both the adult birds and the young chickens often causing serious loss among the latter.
The disease is caused by a fungus or mold which grows on straw, grain, etc., and is either inhaled in breathing or swallowed by the chicken; it sticks to the air passages and grows there as it did on the straw or grain, in small, yellow patches.
Symptoms.—In the adult fowl, the first symptoms are apt to pass unnoticed, these are loss of appetite and increased thirst, then the fowl loses weight; the breathing becomes labored and is accompanied by a rattle in the throat from the mucus which collects. This keeps on getting worse until the bird dies.
In young chickens the first symptoms are a sleepy and lifeless appearance and drooping wings. This is followed by rapid breathing and rattle in the throat and white diarrhea, which may be mistaken for the disease of that name (see page [269]).
This disease may be mistaken for Anemia or Tuberculosis in the adult, or White Diarrhea in the chicken, and the only sure way is to kill a bird and examine the air passages and lungs; which will be found covered with patches of white or greenish-yellow membrane.
Treatment.—There is no cure for this disease and we must rely on prevention. Kill all affected birds and thoroughly disinfect the quarters, and be very careful not to give moldy grain or use moldy straw.
Blackhead
This disease is particularly destructive to young turkeys when from 2 weeks to 4 months old. Other domestic fowls probably carry the disease without being themselves affected.
The disease is caused by a very small animal known as an amoeba and much too small to be seen by the naked eye. These amoeba are swallowed in eating or drinking and make their way to the spot where the large and small intestine join. At that point there are two blind pouches, and the amoeba stick there and increase and multiply, until the intestine is almost completely obstructed; they also pass to the liver which becomes covered with yellowish or yellowish-green spots. From the position in the intestine the amoeba pass out with the excrement to infect more turkeys.
Symptoms.—The young turkeys appear dull and listless, and do not follow the flock, and seem to have lost interest; the wings droop and the bird gets weaker and weaker; diarrhea is present and often a peculiar discoloration of the head which gives the name “blackhead”.
Treatment.—So far no successful cure has been found for this disease, and we must rely on prevention. Diseased birds should be killed at once, their bodies burned and the runways, houses, etc., thoroughly disinfected. Turkeys should not be confined with other domestic fowls, for while these do not suffer from “blackhead” they are believed to carry it.
Bronchitis
Is known by the frequent coughing, and if observed, a more frequent respiration than in health, and generally a well marked rattling in the throat may be noticed. In the more advanced stage there is discharge, as in catarrh, or a slight discharge as it gets well. Give the A.A., two or three times per day.
Bumble Foot
Occurs mostly in the large breeds of fowls, and is supposed to be caused by bruising the foot when alighting on a hard surface, or in resting on a small or uneven perch. There is a swelling or corn in the bottom of the foot, which softens, becomes ulcerated, forming a putrid surface or sore. Remove the putrid or decayed matter carefully, and paint with iodine; this may be repeated two or three times, and give, internally, the J.K., or if the foot is hot and swelled and not yet maturated, the A.A., may dissipate the swelling without its maturating. The bird should be kept on the straw and not suffered to rest on the perch.
Cholera
Usually makes its appearance as a diarrhea, with frequent greenish droppings and violent thirst, and extreme weakness and rapid failing of strength; the birds staggering or falling about, and often attacks of cramps. There is generally also an anxious look in the face. The disease is sometimes rapidly fatal, death occurring in one or two days.
It is generally admitted to be caused by confining too many birds in close, limited quarters; insufficient shade; stale, unhealthy drinking water; exposure to the hot sun; feeding on grass-runs covered with droppings, and the want also of a regular supply of fresh green food. The disease rarely or never occurs where fowls have a liberal range, clean runs, good water and green food daily.
Treatment.—The flock should at once be removed from their unhealthy surroundings, and be given a clear, ample range, and the F.F., every three hours in urgent cases, or three times per day to those who are yet able to eat. The yards should be scraped free of droppings and covered with clean earth. Disinfect pens with 5% carbolic acid or fumigate with sulphur and whitewash with 5% carbolic in the whitewash.
Tuberculosis
Is sometimes observed in fowls, manifested by wasting of flesh and great weakness, notwithstanding good feed. The disease is incurable and affected birds should be killed at once.
In large flocks in close quarters where a few of the birds have it, it will usually be found that all have it, and it may be cheaper in the long run to destroy the entire flock, thoroughly disinfect the entire premises and stock up over again.
Cramps
Chickens are sometimes subject to this disease, especially in damp, cold weather. The toes are first seen to be bent under, and by degrees they walk on the knuckles or outside of the foot, and the birds often squat on the hock. If it is the result of a cold, and the chickens are feverish, as is generally the case, remove them to a comfortable place, and give them the A.A., three times per day. If it fails after a day or two, try the J.K. If the toes are badly cramped, they may be washed in warm water and gently opened and kneaded by the fingers, and afterwards be wiped dry.
Crop Bound
This is caused by the bird gorging itself with grain, tough meat or bone, too large to be digested. When the crop is so distended with hard food or other substance, the outlet is narrowed or entirely closed, so that mechanical manipulation may be necessary to cause its passage.
Where the crop is distended with hard food, and is not passing off, and help is required, pour some milk-warm water down the throat, and then, holding the head downward, quietly manipulate or knead the distended crop with the hand, so as to soften the mass. After the mass has thus been carefully softened, pour down a large teaspoonful of castor or sweet oil, and the mass will be gradually worked off. Food should not be allowed for some time. Give also the J.K., two or three times a day, which may be continued to entire recovery. In many cases the use of the J.K., will be successful without the use of any other means.
Diarrhea and Dysentery (Scouring)
Is not uncommon among fowls, caused usually by improper food or sudden changes of weather, or severe exposure. In diarrhea the droppings are only too frequent, watery, scalding or excessive, with consequent drooping and wasting of flesh; while, if this condition is unchecked, the discharges become bloody or mingled with blood and mucous, forming a real dysentery. This latter form of the disease is said to be contagious, and requires that the diseased birds should be separated from the flock and the dead ones buried deeply, far away from the yards or pens of the flock, and the yards and pens thoroughly disinfected or use new ones. The treatment is the same; the F.F., should be given, three or four times per day. The food should be boiled milk thickened with flour, and well cooked, or good bread softened in scalded milk. Of course the birds should have a clean, dry and well littered and sheltered place.
Egg Bound
Sometimes hens are unable to drop the egg from its unusual size. This is usually manifested by the hens coming off the nest and moping around with the wings down and in evident distress. A large spoonful of castor or olive oil often relieves, to which should be added a dose of G.G. Should this fail after an hour, bathe the vent with warm water, and then with a feather dipped in oil, lubricate or freely oil the passage or viaduct, taking care not to break the egg. Should the egg passage be ruptured or protruded, the I.I., may be given, one or two doses, to promote the healing.
Scaly Legs
This disease is caused by a little mite which gets on the chickens legs and burrowing under the skin and scales causes the legs to become enlarged and the scales very prominent.
Treatment.—The best application so far tried seems to be an ointment composed of 1 part oil of caraway and 5 parts white vaseline, this should be rubbed on the legs every few days until the disease disappears. The mites can also be killed by putting a teaspoonful of kerosene oil in a quart measure of water and dipping in the foot. However there is more danger of irritation than with the oil of caraway, and very much so if any of the oil gets on the feathers.
Feather Eating
This unnatural appetite, mostly observed in the hen, is the expression of some chemical want in the system, which, not satisfied in the food or drink of the fowl, manifests itself in picking and eating the feathers. Whatever supplies this want will relieve the expression of it, or, in other words, the habit. To this end the birds should have good feed and a grass run, if possible. If not, fine grass should be chopped up and given them, as also green food. Bones should be burned in the fire, then pounded small and put within their reach. This will supply the carbonate of lime, should that be wanting, and an occasional feed of wet-up bran will supply the silex, should the desire arise from deprivation of that. Some animal food, well peppered, may also be used advantageously. Give also the J.K., morning and night.
Fractures
Broken wings or legs in fowls may be set without much trouble, if the fractured ends of bones are brought together and secured. The leg or thigh may be held straight, with the broken ends neatly in position, and a rag, or even paper wet in white of egg, carefully wrapped around it several times. The white of egg hardens as it dries, and furnishes a sufficient protection until the callus is formed. Broken wings are best secured by tying the feathers firmly together about an inch from the end, after having put the fractured ends neatly in place.
Frost Bites
If the comb or wattles are frost bitten, they should be at first rubbed with snow or icy cold water, until the natural color and suppleness is restored, and then an application of Humphreys’ Veterinary Oil. Two or three applications will usually suffice.
Gapes, or Throat Worms
This disease is so called from the peculiar action of the chickens who are affected with it. It is caused by the presence of a pale reddish worm, some three-quarters of an inch in length, which infest the mouth and throat, and of which from two to a dozen are found in a chicken, each usually doubled up. These worms are a species of pin worms, and have been bred in damp earth, and hence are found among chickens which are bred in damp, moist soils, and are rarely ever known when the birds have a clean, high or gravel yard. The spawn of these worms are deposited by myriads in the moist, unclean soil, are thrown out by the coughing and efforts of the ones infected, and becomes developed in the most barren soil or in water, and thence transplanted to the crop with the feed, become developed in the throat of the chick. This is the most recent position of scientific knowledge on this subject.
The best method of treatment is to remove, where possible, the chickens to a dry locality, and to give them the D.D., morning and night. Feed the fowls and chicks with finely chopped ONIONS OR GARLIC (tops and bottoms,) mixed with their food. Experience shows the good results of this thoroughly scientific—as well as practical treatment. To remove the worms from the throat, make a loop of one or two horse hairs, which thrust down the throat, and with a slight twist draw it out, bringing the worms with it. This may be repeated until the throat is cleared. Or a quill feather, stripped to within an inch or two of its end, may be dipped in a mixture of glycerine or oil, and petroleum, made in the proportion of three parts of oil or glycerine, to one part of petroleum. Dip the feather in the mixture, and in like manner pass it into and well down the throat, and with a twist bring it out with the worms adhering. The used feathers and remaining oil should be burned to destroy the larvæ of the worms, and fresh feathers used freely, so as not to spread the worms or their larvæ.
Gout or Rheumatism
May be distinguished by the birds being lame, walking with difficulty and sitting about, and on examination the legs or thighs will be found hot and feverish; or in cases of longer standing, there will be evident stiffness of the joints and weakness of the legs, and in some cases contraction of the toes, which indicate cramps. The bird should be kept in a comfortable, dry place, and the B.B., given it three times a day. It is produced by exposure to cold and wet, or to sudden change of temperature.
Leg Weakness
In large breeds of fowls, and especially when being bred “in and in,” so that the stamina of the system is lowered, there is a deficient growth of bony matter, and the birds are weak, squatting around or walking on their hocks. It may be remedied by giving the J.K., morning and night, and bones or oyster shells should be burned in the fire, and then pounded small, and the dust occasionally mixed with the food or placed where the fowls have access to it. This will increase the deposit of ossific matter and impart strength to the legs.
Giddiness
Which is liable to occur in over-fed birds, if suffered to continue, may result in apoplexy. A dose or two of the A.A., will equalize the circulation and remove the difficulty and danger.
Lice
The symptoms of lice are too well known to require description. Where fowl have ample range and well ventilated, sunny coops, the fowl will usually keep fairly clear of lice, particularly if they can find a sandy spot for a dust bath.
However, if a flock becomes badly infested, measures must be taken to kill the lice on the individual birds. This is best done by sprinkling powder on the bird. Pyrethrium powder commonly called Persian Insect Powder, is good, or, the following powder is recommended by the Maine Experiment Station, as being the most effective, yet cheapest, that they have been able to find.
Take 3 parts gasoline and 1 part cresol, mix these together and add gradually with stirring enough plaster of paris to take up all the moisture.
Either of these powders should be dusted on the chicken, particularly around the vent, the under side of the body and beneath the wings.
For young chicks greasing is usually better than dusting. Use either lard, or better, lard and sulphur. This should be applied by the finger, to the head, neck, under the wings and around the vent.
Indigestion—Loss of Appetite
If, as sometimes happens in consequence of over-feeding or the use of too highly seasoned food, fowls lose their appetite, and the digestion and thrift is impaired, a change to soft, well cooked food, and the use, night and morning, of the J.K., will soon correct the difficulty.
Liver Disease
There are several different diseases that affect the liver, but since the external symptoms, causes and treatment are the same for all of them, it is of no practical value to differentiate between them.
Liver disease is caused by insufficient exercise, confinement in damp quarters, and too rich feed. Therefore it is not so common in Summer and Fall, and is most common in the Spring after the fowl have been more or less confined during the winter.
Symptoms.—The fowl die often with little apparent reason, but on examination the liver will be found either too large or too small, or in other unnatural condition.
Treatment.—Plenty of open air exercise, with green feed will gradually get the flock back in shape, except perhaps for a few in which the disease has already gone too far to stop it.
Moulting
We should take into consideration the great drain upon the system of fowls in moulting. Not only are the ordinary wastes of the body to be maintained, but the old summer coat of feathers is to be discarded and an entirely new one to be produced, involving in its growth all the essential elements of which the feathers are composed. If these substances—lime, carbon, sulphur, silex, etc.—are not to be had in the food provided for them, or are imperfectly produced or eliminated, the work drags and the organism suffers, and waste of flesh, poverty of the system or illness is the result. Hence it is a wise precaution, during the season of moulting, to allow the flock a more generous supply of food, and of better quality than usual, and to exercise more than ordinary care in housing and shelter. Fowls that have fair feed and a reasonable range will rarely require special care, but those confined are more apt to suffer. Any stimulating food is of advantage. Hemp seed is very beneficial, and iron is invaluable. An acetate of iron may be readily made by putting some nails or other bits of iron in cider. This, after standing a day or two, may be used in mixing the feed. More cider may be added as required, and so the cider and iron may be kept and used during the entire moulting season. The I.I., is the proper remedy, and should also be given two or three times per week, or even more frequently if the birds are suffering much.
A little care and attention in this respect will shorten the period of moulting and bring the birds out in better health and vigor and better plumage.
Pip or Chirp
Young chickens are affected by a peculiar form of disease termed pip or chirp, from the short, spasmodic chirups which they make during the complaint. The chickens mope about uttering this peculiar cry, and seek refuge in solitary places, as it is the instinct of animals and birds to pick at, maim or destroy the sick or maimed among them. The chicken is hot and feverish, although trembling violently, and they are extremely tender on being handled, and soon a dark-colored, dry, horny scale will be found at the end of the tongue, and the beak may turn yellow at the base; the appetite fails and the plumage becomes ruffled, and they gradually sink and die. It is doubtless caused by exposure to wet weather, as the light down is easily saturated, and is long in drying. The A.A., may be given at first, one or two doses, and afterwards the J.K., three times per day. The removal of the scale at the end of the tongue is of no consequence. That is not the cause of the disease, but the result, and the tongue will come all right so soon as the chick is restored in his circulation and digestion. Of course the birds should be well housed and fed on soft food.
Roup
Almost all forms of chronic catarrh in fowls go by the name of roup. It usually begins as a severe cold, caused by exposure to cold, wet and damp. There is discharge from the nostrils, at first of thin mucus, and which soon becomes opaque, and even offensive, and the entire cavity of the nose may become filled up; froth and mucus fill the inner angle of the eye, the lids are swelled and often the eye-ball quite concealed, and in severe cases the entire face is considerably swelled. It is said to be contagious, but is probably only so in extremely virulent cases. But the fact that a flock of fowls are exposed to similar disease-making conditions, and that many are taken nearly at the same time, would countenance the idea of its contagious character. The causes of the disease should be avoided by providing shelter for chickens during the cold, chilly, fall nights, and not permitting them to wander around without feed in the cold, raw mornings. A plentiful supply of nourishing food and comfortable shelter when sudden cold changes of weather occur, will do much to prevent the appearance of this disease and the consequent loss. The iron and cider with the food will be useful, and onions cut up fine and mixed in the soft feed, is also an invaluable agent for fowls affected with any form of roup. The A.A., is the proper remedy, two or three doses at first, during the inflammatory stage. Then the C.C., is the proper remedy, and may be relied upon. Give it as often as three, or even four times per day, in extreme cases. Of course the severe cases should be well housed, have warm and dry lodgings, free from exposure to open windows and cold drafts of air, as the bird is liable to new chill from fresh exposure. Washing the head and syringing out the nose, and washing the throat with salt and vinegar, or even with water and castile soap, is rarely necessary and really of very little consequence. As the catarrh passes off, the secretions will become healthy and natural, and all these discharges disappear.
Soft Eggs
May be a sign of over-feeding, but are more commonly from the want of material of which to form the shell—lime, starch, sulphur, etc. The flock should have an occasional feed of mashed potatoes and lime; old mortar; burnt oyster shells, pounded up, should be placed in reach. An occasional dose of J.K., will be beneficial.
White Diarrhea
This disease probably causes more loss among newly hatched chicks than all other diseases combined. It attacks chicks when from 1 to 3 weeks old, and usually when the chicks are over 3 weeks old they are safe from it.
White Diarrhea is caused by a germ, and when a flock have this disease, it will be found that some of the chicks were born with this disease and gave it to the others.
When a flock of chicks have this disease, most of them will die, but a few live through, and it is found that these few who live through are the ones that carry the disease. The germs in this case resides in the ovaries and are in every egg such a hen lays. The chicks hatched from these eggs develop the disease and communicate it to the others.
Symptoms.—The chicks appear stupid and remain under the hen most of the time as if cold; they do not run around with the others but remain by themselves. The feathers are rough and the wings droop. They lose weight and eat little or nothing. A white diarrhea appears from which the disease gets its name; this is usually creamy, but sometimes there is a little brown in it. This discharge is sticky and sometimes even plugs up the vent. The chick will often utter a shrill cry, apparently of pain when voiding.
Treatment.—No satisfactory cure has yet been found for this disease and we must rely on prevention.
Where eggs are hatched under a hen, if one of a setting develops this disease, the entire setting should be killed and the nest and quarters of the setting disinfected.
In using incubators, the eggs should be taken on the 18th day and placed in wire trays or baskets, holding about 12 eggs each, and after the chicks are hatched they should remain in these trays until 48 hours old, then any trays that have developed the disease should be destroyed.
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Humphreys’ Homeopathic Remedies
No. FOR 1 Fevers, Congestions, Inflammations 2 Worms, Worm Fever or Worm Diseases 3 Colic, Crying and Wakefulness of Infants 4 Diarrhea, of Children and Adults 5 Dysentery, Gripings, Bilious Colic 6 Cholera Morbus, Vomiting 7 Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis 8 Toothache, Faceache, Neuralgia 9 Headache, Sick Headache, Vertigo 10 Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Weak Stomach 11 Suppressed Menses or Scanty 12 Leucorrhea or Profuse Menses 13 Croup, Hoarse Cough, Laryngitis. 14 Eczema, Eruptions, Erysipelas. 15 Rheumatism, Lumbago. 16 Malaria, Fever and Ague 17 Piles, Blind or Bleeding, External, Internal 18 Ophthalmia, Sore or Inflamed Eyes 19 Catarrh, Influenza, Cold in the Head 20 Whooping Cough, Spasmodic Cough 21 Asthma, Oppressed, Difficult Breathing 22 Ear Discharge, Earache 23 Swellings and Enlarged Glands 24 General Debility, “Tonic Tablets” 25 Dropsy, Fluid Accumulations 26 Nausea, Vomiting, Sea-Sickness 27 Disorders of the Kidney and Urinary System 28 Nervous Prostration 29 Sore Mouth, Canker, Fever Blisters 30 Urinary Incontinence, Wetting Bed 31 Painful Menses, Pruritus 32 Disorders of the Heart, Palpitations 33 Spasms or Convulsions 34 Sore Throat and Quinsy 35 Chronic Congestions, Headache 40 Induces Repose and Natural Refreshing Sleep 77 Grip, La Grippe, Grippe
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Humphreys’ Remedies
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No. 1—For Fevers, Congestions and Inflammations; Heat, Pain; Inflammation and Congestion of the Head; Inflammation of the Eyes; Inflammation of the Throat, or Quinsy, alone, or in alternation with No. 34; or Inflammation of the Chest; Inflammation of the Liver and of the Bowels; Fevers of Children; Measles; Inflammatory, Bilious or Gastric Fever; Effects of being Over-heated; Violent Throbbing Headaches. The first stage of any inflammatory disease or Fever, Measles, Croup, Mumps, Cough, or Cold or Sore Throat, calls for No. 1.
No. 2—For Worm Diseases, Worm Fevers; Worm Colic; Itching of the Anus, or Wetting the Bed from Worms; Irregular or Capricious Appetite, or Emaciation from Worms; Long Round Worms; Pin Worms.
No. 3—For Infants Diseases, Sleeplessness, Colic and Crying of Infants or young Children, such as Restlessness; Irritation and Congestion from Teething and Feebleness of Infants; Irregular Teething; Diarrhea of Infants.
No. 4—For Diarrhea or Loose Bowels, in Children or Adults; Summer Complaint or Cholera Infantum; Thin, Loose, Yellowish, Greenish or Watery Stools, Diarrhea from Indigestible Food; Diarrhea from the use of Fruit; Diarrhea from Traveling or Change of Water; Painful Diarrhea, Chronic Diarrhea or Loose Bowels.
No. 5—For Dysentery, Colic, Painful or Bloody Diarrhea; Fall Dysentery or Bloody Flux; Slimy, Scanty Mucus; Greenish and Bloody Stools, attended with violent Colic or Straining and Tenesmus; Painful Diarrhea; Colic; Bilious Colic; Hemorrhoidal Colic.
No. 6—For Cholera Morbus; Nausea and Vomiting; Sickness at the Stomach; Vomiting with Diarrhea; Thin, Loose, Urgent or Rice-Water Stools, with Vomiting, Coldness, Paleness, Blue Lips and Cramps; Morning Sickness.
No. 7—For Coughs, Bronchitis, Cough, with Pain and Stitches in the Side or Breast; Cough with Pain or Soreness in the Throat and Bronchia; Hoarseness or Loss of Voice in Clergymen; given after or in alternation with No. 1. Chronic Bronchitis or Laryngitis, with Cough. Hoarseness, Loss of Voice or Weak Voice, Scanty Expectoration. Often used in alternation with No. 1, especially if there is heat or fever.
No. 8—For Neuralgia, Toothache, Faceache, Nervous Pains, Toothache in Sound Teeth, or in Old Decayed Teeth; Toothache in Children; Faceache; Tic Douloureux; Swelled Face; Darting, Sharp or Stinging Pains; Neuralgic Pains; Old Neuralgia.
No. 9—For Headaches, Vertigo, Sick Headaches, Congestion to the Head; Bilious Headaches; Nervous Headaches and Sick Headaches, with Nausea and Vomiting; Congestive Headaches, also No. 1; Vertigo or Dizziness; Swimming of the Head; Heat Heaviness or Fullness of the Head, also No. 1. Often used in alternation with No. 1, for Congestive Headaches, or with No. 10 for Bilious Headaches.
No. 10—For Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Constipation and Bilious Complaints; Weak Stomach, rising of Food; Water Brash, Coated Tongue, Loss of Appetite, Loathing of Food; Constipation, or Costive Bowels; Scanty, Knotty, Small Hard Dry or Insufficient Stools, Biliousness Yellow or Earthy Complexion; Bad Taste in the Mouth; No Appetite, Drowsiness, and Costive Bowels, Acid Stomach, Everything eaten becomes Sour; Old Chronic Dyspepsia, when everything disagrees; Headache from Indigestion; Chronic Constipation; Flatulence and Bloating of the Abdomen after eating.
No. 11—For Female Irregularities; Delaying, Scanty or Painful Menses; Delaying or too Tardy or Late-appearing Menses; Suppressed or Obstructed Menses, from cold, fright, weakness or morbid cause; too Scanty, too Pale, or Colorless Menses; Green Sickness or Chlorosis; Headache or Colic Pains during the Menses; Intermitting or Irregular Menses; Leucorrhea, with Scanty or Delayed Menses.
No. 12—For Whites, or Leucorrhea; Too Profuse Menses; yellowish, thick, offensive or corrosive discharge; Menses too soon and too long continued; too profuse and debilitating Menses; Constant Bearing Down; Old Debilitating Leucorrhea.
No. 13—For Croup; Hoarse Cough, Oppressed Breathing; Horse, Croupy Cough; Inflammatory Croup; Spasmodic Croup, with Quick Pulse, Hot Skin, Difficult, Labored Breathing and Hoarse Cough; Laryngitis, with hoarseness, Pain in the Throat, Painful Cough and Scanty Expectoration; Loss of Voice.
No. 14—For Eczema, Eruptions, Salt Rheum, Acne, Ulcers; Erysipelas, with Hot, Smooth, Swelled Skin or Blisters; Salt Rheum or Rough, Scaly, Chapped Eruption on the Hands or other parts; Pimples or Blotches on the Face; Prickly Heat; Nettle Rash, like Stings of Insects; Scald Head.
No. 15—For Rheumatism; Lameness, Stiffness and Soreness; Acute Rheumatism, with Painful, Hot Swelling of the part; Chronic Rheumatism, with Lameness, Stiffness and Soreness of the part; Sciatic Rheumatism, with pain in the Hip, Knee or Leg of the affected side; Lumbago, or pain across the Loins or Back; Old Rheumatic Pains or Lameness. In alternation with No. 1, for the acute form; and in alternation with No. 10 for Chronic Rheumatism.
No. 16—For Malaria, Fever and Ague, Dumb Ague, Intermitting Fever, Malarial Fevers; Effects of Malaria; Old suppressed Agues.
No. 17—For Piles and Hemorrhoids, Blind or Bleeding, Internal or External, with Fullness, Itching and Burning; Inflamed, Hot, Burning, Sore Tumors around the Rectum; Falling of the Rectum; Itching of the Anus.
Apply Humphreys’ Witch Hazel Ointment (Comp.) externally.
No. 18—For Sore Eyes; Old Chronic, Sore, Inflamed or Weak Eyes, with Heat, Redness, Scalding Tears, and Dread of Light; Painful, Red, Inflamed Eyelids with constant secretion of Mucus; Acute Inflamed Eyes or Eyelids. Also for Easy Fatigue of the eyes, from reading or effort; Intolerance of Light.
No. 19—For Catarrh, Dry or Flowing, Recent or Chronic; Influenza; Mucus Discharges from the Nose; Acute Catarrh, with flow of Scalding Mucus, Tears and Sneezing; Old Chronic Catarrhs, with profuse discharge of Thick, sometimes Offensive Mucus, Obstructed Nose, and often Loss of Taste or Smell; Chronic Cold in the Head; Catarrh of Children: Offensive Breath with Catarrh; Cough, with Profuse discharge from the Nose, and Copious Expectoration; Loose Catarrhal Cough in Children; Soreness, or Dry Crusts forming in the Nose, with dry or Moist Catarrh.
No. 20—For Whooping Cough; Irritating, Spasmodic and Convulsive Coughs. Given early arrests the development of the Cough; and given at any stage; allays the irritation, moderates the Cough.
No. 21—For Asthma, Difficult Breathing, Cough and Expectoration; Old Chronic Asthma, with attacks of Oppressed, Labored, Difficult Breathing, Cough and Expectoration; Dry Asthma; Humid Asthma; Stridulous or Sighing Respiration.
No. 22—For Ear Discharges; Earache; Diseases of the Ear; Noise in the Head, Discharges from the Ear, in consequence of Measles, Scarlatina or other diseases; Inflammation of the Internal Ear; Old Offensive Discharges from the Ear, Noises, Buzzing Ringing or Piping in the Ears.
No. 23—For Enlarged Glands or Tonsils; Enlarged or Inflamed Glands under the Jaw, around the Neck or under the Arm-pits; Itching and Burning of the Legs.
No. 24—Tonic Tablets for General Debility; A General Tonic for Loss of Appetite, Impaired or Weak Digestion; Physical and Nervous Weakness; Want of Strength, Lassitude, Tired, Weary Feeling, even on Waking; Easy Fatigue: Sweat on going to Sleep; Debility, the result of severe illness or drain upon the system; Want of Tone or Iron in the Blood. An invaluable remedy for persons under severe mental or physical strain, or over-work, or the debility resulting from it.
No. 25—For Dropsy, Fluid Accumulations with Scanty Secretions; Anasarca or General Dropsy; Dropsy of the Abdomen; Dropsy of the Chest, Heart or Head; Dropsy with Tumid, Doughy Swellings and Scanty Secretions; Dropsical Swelling of the Feet or Legs.
No. 26—For Nausea and Vomiting; Sea-Sickness and Sickness from Riding in Carriage, Railroads, Automobiles; Headache from Carriage or Car Riding.
No. 27—For Disorders of the Kidney and Urinary System. Painful, Retarded, Scanty Urination; Catarrh of the bladder in alternation with the No. 30; Sand and Unhealthy Deposits in the Urine; Thick, Turbid, Frothy Urine filled with mucus and brick-dust deposits; Too Frequent Discharge of Urine; Nightly Enuresis; Pain in the region of the Kidney and Bladder; Difficult, Slow, Interrupted and Insufficient Discharge in old people; Bloody Urine or mixed with blood. Compare also No. 30.
No. 28—For Nervous Prostration or Neurasthenia.—A general condition of Neurasthenia or Nervous Prostration, want of energy, low spirits with backache, headache, etc. Lack of tone of the nervous system with sluggishness of the mind; difficult mental concentration; absent mindness; extreme nervous condition from anxiety, worry, business strain, overstudy, etc. Functional weakness of various organs.
☞N. B.—Packages of Three Flasks of Pills and One Flask of Powder and One of Tonic Tablets.—Powder to be taken each morning while the pills are taken noon and night, and the Tonic Tablets taken before each meal.
No. 29—For Sore Mouth or Canker; Fever Blisters, Cold Sores on the Lips; Ulcerated Lips; Sore Mouth or Canker in adults, children or infants; Nursing Sore Mouth; Morning Sickness of expectant Women; Indigestion; Ulceration or Canker of the Mouth.
No. 30—For Diseases of the Urinary Organs; Urinary Incontinence; Frequent, Painful or Scalding Urination; Inability to retain the Urine; Catarrh of the Bladder; in alternation with No. 27; Frequent Scalding Urination, with Mucus Discharge; Urine loaded with Mucus; Nightly Wetting the Bed in children; Nocturnal Urinary incontinence. No. 30 is to the bladder and passages what No. 27 is to the kidneys—hence so often used in connection.
No. 31—For Painful Menstruation; Spasms, Hysteria, Pruritus; Menstruation with Painful Bearing Down; Menses, with Painful, Pressive, Cutting, Griping, and even Spasms; Too Profuse Menses, with Pain and Distress; Itching and Burning Irritation of the Organs; Laughing, Crying, Hysterical Movements, or Cramps at the monthly period; Too Early and Too Long continued Menses; Leucorrhea, like white of eggs.
No. 32—For Disorders of the Heart, Palpitations, Flushes; Irregularities occurring at the Critical Age of Women, on Change of Life; Flushes of Heat; Irregular Menses, Wanting or Too Soon, Too Copious and Too Long, with great prostration, nervous and wakeful at the turn of life; Palpitation of the Heart; Irregular or Tumultuous Beating of the Heart; Violent Throbbing or Irregular Beating of the Heart; Painful Spasms through the Chest and Heart; Rheumatism of the Heart; Old Chronic Palpitations of the Heart.
No. 33—For Cramps, Spasms, Convulsions; Convulsions of children or adults with Loss of Consciousness; Spasms or Convulsions of children from the slightest cause; Convulsions of children from Teething, Fright or Mental Excitement; Cramps or Spasms of single limbs; St. Vitus’ Dance, with Twitching, Jerking or Strange Motions of single features, muscles or parts; Hysterical Spasms of Hysteria; Easy Numbness of single parts.
No. 34—For Sore Throat and Quinsy; Ulcerated Sore Throat, Tonsilitis, Ulcerated or Enlarged Tonsils; Painful, Difficult, Impeded Deglutition.
No. 35—For Chronic Congestions; Headaches and Eruptions; Habitual Headaches; Heat and Fullness of the Head; Headaches of children; Difficult Teething of children; Scurf and Eruption on the Head of young children; Liability to Take Cold from Slight Exposure.
No. 40—For Insomnia, Sleeplessness, Wakefulness, Restlessness and Nervousness.—Fullness or beating in the head, or red face, such as people of full habit are subject to, and from Indigestion.
Number “40” induces repose, and natural, refreshing sleep.
No Narcotic, No Opiate, No Dope, No habit forming Drugs, Strictly Homeopathic.
Take six pellets at bed time, or hourly, if wakeful during the night. A cracker or glass of milk at bed time, draws the blood from the head, accelerating the action of Number “40.”
No. 77—For Grip, Grippe, La Grippe, Influenza, Hay Fever; Flowing Eyes and Nose, Coryza; Sneezing, Cough; Feverishness, Restlessness, Irritability; Heat or Dryness of Throat, Thirst; Pain and Soreness in Head, Back and Lungs; General Prostration and Despondency. For La Grippe, or Epidemic Influenza. Colds which are obstinate, that “hang on” and do not yield to treatment, find relief from No. 77. For extreme fever, alternate with No. 1; for Violent Cough or Chest Pains, alternate with No. 7. But in general, the No. 77 is sufficient.
First Symptoms.—Coryza, or nasal irritation or discharge, cough, sore throat; headache, backache; and general depression.
More Serious Symptoms.—Pain in head, back, chest, or limbs, sometimes of sudden and prostrating neuralgic character; sometimes cerebral excitement; even delirium; extreme prostration, languor or debility, depression of mind, even after the first violence of the attack has passed away; bronchitis or broncho-pneumonia may become serious complications.
“Rose,” “Hay,” “Autumn” or “Peach” Catarrh.—For this, to which some persons are remarkably susceptible (coming on annually, generally between 20th of August and 1st of October), No. 77 is an invaluable remedy. Taken early, days before the attack, continued persistently four times a day, it relieves the sneezing, lacrymation and asthma; and by its continued use, from season to season, tends to lesson the liability of the disease.
Moderation in the use of coffee and tobacco; avoidance of exposure; keeping warm and using only light and easily digestible food, will greatly aid the beneficent action of No. 77.
No. 24 Tonic Tablets will be found beneficial after an attack.