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OUTBREAKS of ‘gapes’ among chickens usually lead to a very high mortality. The disease is due to the presence of the nematode worm Syngamus trachealis Lieb. in the windpipe. Treatment with turpentine in olive oil, applied with a feather, is often successful in skilful hands, but I have only saved one pullet thus. A severe outbreak occurred among my chickens in March 1930, and I treated a number with carbon tetrachloride dissolved in medicinal paraffin, probably about a two per cent solution. Fewer died than I expected, but being otherwise occupied, no records were kept.
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ATKINS, W. The Treatment of ‘Gapes’ in Chickens. Nature 128, 585 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128585c0
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