Book excerpt: This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to pigeon diseases, and includes information on diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. This accessible and informative guide contains a wealth of information that would be of utility to the modern pigeon fancier, and will make for a great addition to collections antiquarian literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Pigeons', 'Pigeon Diseases', 'Canker', 'Diarrhea', 'Egg Binding', 'Exhaustion', 'Feather Rot', 'Going Light', 'Hard-Shelled Eggs', 'Megrims', 'One-Eyed Cold', 'Rheumatism', 'Soft-Shelled Eggs', 'Wing Disease', and 'Worms'. This vintage volume is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on pigeons.