484 MODERN FARRIER. 



Jesuit's bark, - - half an ounce. 

 Dragon's blood, - - half an ounce. 

 Gamboge, - - - Imlf an ounce. 



To be made into pills about the size of a hazel- 

 nut, and one to be given every other day. 



Great benefit has been also found from the syrup 

 of buckthorn ; its nature is to operate as physic, at 

 the same time that it contributes, in some measure, 

 to the nourishment of the animal. Many are fond 

 of giving castor oil, which, in general, a dog throws 

 up almost immediately ; this, however, never hap- 

 pens with syrup of buckthorn. 



The following is Mr. Thornhill's treatment of this 

 disorder. 



' When you first perceive the dog to be ill, give 

 him half an ounce of salts dissolved in a tea-cup full 

 of w^arm water, and at night, ten grains of com- 

 pound powder of ipecacuanha in a little warm water, 

 and keep him in a warm place. If you do not per- 

 ceive him to get better in two or three days, give 

 him sixteen grains of antimonial powder, and two 

 grains of powdered foxglove, mixed with conserve 

 of roses, sufficient for four boluses; give him one at 

 night and morning for two days, and, on the third, 

 a tea-spoonful of powdered Peruvian bark, three 

 times in the course of the day, in a little milk. If 

 the distemper still increase, a rowel on the neck, as 

 near the head as possible, will be found of great ser- 

 vice. The rowel should be kept running, till the 

 animal recover, which will be in the course of a few 

 weeks, if kept warm and quiet.' 



We are told by this celebrated sportsman, that he 

 almost invariably cured his own dogs in this man- 

 ner ; but he, no doubt, found it very difficult to 

 administer the salts, &c. 



R. Lascelles, esq. in his Letters on Sporting, says^ 

 that ' the remedy which is first applied is the most 



