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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 11, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 41, No. 9.

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Poultry Disease.

TECHNICALLY called Ornicephalymosis, is prevailing fearfully throughout the United States. The sickness attacks the fowls in the head, and runs its course in from ten to eighteen hours. Its first form is of a cold or influenza, which gradually changes to the diphtheria, a slime begins to be emitted from the beak, which is soon followed by staggering fits until the chicken dies. The disease is creating great excitement in the markets of New York and Philadelphia. There are certain infallable signs, however, by which the diseased poultry may be known. The breast has a dark color, betraying a mortified state of flesh; the neck is much discolored, and the skin is drawn as tight as a drum.—New Jersey Farmer.