The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-12
BIRDS HAVE HOSPITALS NOW.
MANY PETS SAVED THAT WOULD
ONCE HAVE DIED.
folds the chief Ailments -Broken LEGS
Mended and wooden Ones supplied. Even
birds Treated Much Like Humans.

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90. apy ~
IT, %i. -
~ io paIioV' vac -"
Wfappeu IN COTTON ana a meoicai 'her-
mometer was Inserted under It's wing.
And this invalid has a bad cold. He
should respond TO the treatment by this
| time"
Tha D..io,. ,,,dou ,n.no,,,o, enoh
Inc patient under inspection, a nnch'
was extended at FUN length on a not water
bag and its head rested on a pillow. A
thermomoter WINS tuckad under i,s wing
sTemnara,,ra down ,o, njna,v-oi,b Won
ehPoia'" 'o"" " 1is"'
can get up ana move about a htte To-Day
The bird physician and surgeon, carrying
| a formidable looking equipment OF knives,
ho,,Ios ond ho,doaes ,b,s oon,;nuad on
- -
heI rouhos'
| The bird hospital is an amazingly we'll
patronized institution. The pet bird pop
~ulation Ia laroe and M n rule can well AFFORD
H. h,-,,-r ~, Thee
,"e 'uAuiy VI ,heu -
IN no emu 10 'ne aiiihenVs 'he househoiu
recurring prompt surgical attention are
common
-" - .
NJ va Nc" 10TH ohu noepiVai ~
frequently as many as 500 patients at a
time. Their complaints vary from slight
indisnosi,ion and chronic diaeases TO frac-
go. una.di,. ;nr,adio,o o,,on,ion Tho
n - HN-al
,heuheai anu eu'Rioei WIZ 10 P''.o
by an experienced, intelligent and sym
pathetic land. The death rate Ia low.
The bird hospital with it's 500 patients
comprises several wards: large, light rooms
for the convalescents and small darkened
apartments for the contagious cases and the
patients requiring rest and quiet. All
about the main wards are ranged the private
wards in great variety.
There are large, airy cages with lofty
perches, and dark boxes with hot water
bottles, mattresses, cotton pillows and
warm flannel coverings. Ordinary boarders
are accommodated here for rs cents a week.
In cases in which delicate surgical opera
lions are performed or a stubborn disease
is treated the doctors bill IL larger. sur
gical operations frequently cost five or ten
dollars.
The list OF ailments as recorded on the
blotter at the bird hospital il naturally
long and varied. Probably nowhere else
in the entire animal kingdom Is sickness
SO common as among the feathered house
hold pets.
The pet canary Tor instance, II oIteh
tenderly, but 1eldom intelligently, cared
for at home. The commonest complaint
Is a cold. The bird hospital cures a very
large percentage OF colds. In n~lnety-nine
cases in a hundred the owner OF a blrd
allows the cold TO develop into some COM
plication far more serious. 4,
The delicate threats are readily attacked
by asthma n Eh'eilc on
ease IL also very common, and Is exceed
ingly contagious, Phthisls Is especially
likely to attack parrots; ahu is very con
tagious. u is salu 'hat Iuily W per cht. ol
parrots suner from phthisis more oI "ss
seriously.
There was a Time when the only pre-
scription Tor a SICK blrd was 10 wiring us
neck. ms heroic measure rs sun a hhn.-
yer OF common pIartice. nut 'neIe arc
many VINO axe ihelr Iea,neteu Is"e "
the Dird doctor when disease appears
The nature OF plrds Complaints nave pteh
a good zeal investigated OF iauS' anu WIN
great success Inc neuidal N.Iehtioh
gwen 10 a sGh pd,ciI IA tm puu ~
pNal IL huiprtsihsF INV Na' give" "
human batleu,s, -
y oIu > coIu = ussh"Au III ""v :"
Neh'lonaI way TITS "S 'ohsuJ
aHhlheu Tue cohu',luu ~ us.
apparatus ana any ihurgcie.,oh " ea,mhs
" QUICKLY ooserNeu lnS ~ ar" 'e"s
its own story OF The general vitality
Inc uioopnlR " .he i'"1nel7 '"nl
a lanlllhr Ine oh1 en-
P"Ih'urs ~ taheN az " 49,
30 caieiully are Az 'ne e~YIhPtonls oi 'n'se
pets observed Una we pro u to, Or
TEN 10 op-fNe ieNef py the louCh " 'ne
mana \ hleuica! ,h''ilOlIeue, ~ "rru W
TINS dlhghosls me .enlPeIH'"e u ~
"ays laken hnn"I .he N.is
Ana The treatment itsei soes On Huoh
the same az ~ any o,iei hpspnal ,hyusn
WIN reduo"d dos's LIE lhculcine ls gwen
by pils OF llqulus nc uhu u"''HIi , H"s
much the same uoubie ~ giving a pm '"a
blId as 10 Ieiteo'oiy clhIu
rue are usuhlIS gwen ma EIalT n'.su
WITH some Too ~ stti"he oar VIZ
dose ls ioros'd GOVT, ne ,iioS natnih
nlrdl'lnns are u~i"ilep ivy '"s ~ "Lou,h
or the bird y y wln dIlhh-' drop ny uI"P'
IRON Va" end oi va. mag"
Hot baths, bhndhs"s' ana warm appil
cations ar ush"Dl P.~IDau st'nt
the m"iioin"s \ very c"lhin"n pih''l'"
y 10 ~" a bhd very s'1ufel, on no NAl"i
bas aud cover "'h haniH ~" "Hif 'ha
Precipitation hosl bfds f~'Si'"iid very
quiehil u" su'h 'f'allseN
by faT the mosi Interesting par ~ ihis
hospital ~urh !. oh ne suiglosl 90" AZ
emergency ward oqulpl~si iof urgent ohs's
is oI-n day aud nlshi ln alisaafen's