Chapter V: Post-Mortem Examinations 99

1. Making the examination.

2. The normal condition of the internal organs.

3. Diagnosis of disease by post-mortem symptoms.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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2 Isolation 5

3 Desolation 6

4 Poultryman’s Medicine Shelves 8

5 How Disease Is Spread 10

6 Aids to Thorough Disinfection 12

7 Head Showing Brain Exposed 29

8 {Windpipe Cut Open } 30
{A Fungus That Causes Aspergillosis }

9 Bumblefoot 36

10 Chicken Pox 38

11 Diphtheritic Roup 50

12 {Chicken Affected with Gapes } 60
{Gape Worms }

13 Looking for Lice 67

14 Three Lice That Commonly Affect Fowls 68

15 The Air-Sac Mite 74

16 The Depluming Mite 74

17 The Red Mite 75

18 Organs of Reproduction of the Hen 78

19 Examining a Fowl with a Suspicious Cold 84

20 A Roupy Eye 87

21 Scaly Leg 88

22 The Mite That Causes Scaly Leg 89

23 The Fowl Tick 90

24 Organs Affected by Tuberculosis and Blackhead 91

25 Chickens Affected with White Diarrhea 93

26 Healthy Chickens 93

27 Worms in Intestinal Tract of Fowl 95

28 The Parts of a Fowl 96

29 Skeleton of a Fowl 97

30 Post-Mortem Examination No. 1 100

31 Post-Mortem Examination No. 2 102

32 Post-Mortem Examination No. 3 104

33 Post-Mortem Examination No. 4 106

34 Post-Mortem Examination No. 5 110