480 MODERN FARRIER. 



whilst tliey eat. Remove a hound in time if he 

 refuse his meat : and if the whole pack be in the 

 same predicament, let them be chained up sepa- 

 rately. Pretended cures sometimes protract the 

 disorder, as they have been the occasion of its break- 

 ing out a. long time afterwards. Suspected dogs 

 should be immediately separated from the rest, and 

 a short time, if no remedy be used, will prove whe- 

 ther they are really bitten or not. If desirous of 

 trying a remedy, Mr. Beckford recommends the 

 following prescription, which has also been suggest- 

 ed by Dr. James : 



Turbit's mineral, - . 8 grains. 



Next morning, 



Turbit's mineral, - - 16 grains. 

 And, on the third morning, 



Turbit's mineral, - - 32 grains. 



The dose is to be given three mornings succes- 

 sively. The dog should be empty when he takes it, 

 and bled the previous day. The dose should be 

 given early in the moCning, and the dog may have 

 some thin broth, or pot-liquor, about two or three 

 o'clock, but nothing else during the time he takes 

 the medicine. The best way to give it is in butter, 

 and made up into balls with a little flour. Care 

 must be taken that he does not throw it up again. 

 After the last day of the medicine, he may be fed as 

 usual. 



All remedies, however, are fallacious, though va- 

 rious are the drenches and medicines which are given 

 for h) drophobia, and said to be infallible. 



2. Worming. 



This operation has been considered as a preven- 

 tive of madness, even from the time of Pliny. This 



