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Other tests, similar to these experiments, 

 were applied to dogs, horses, and horned cattle. 

 A lean and scraggy dog, covered with parasites 

 and eruptions, with eyes running foul humour, 

 a dog which could neither run nor stand, and 

 which was reduced to the last stage of wasting 

 marasmus, was rescued from the jaws of death 

 and thoroughly cured without special treat- 

 ment, by the sole influence of a rich restorative 

 diet. This dog afterwards became a fine 

 hunting hound, beautiful in shape, and ad- 

 mirable for his sportive attributes. 



These experiments having been submitted 

 to the judgment of the Academie des Sciences 

 in Paris, were honoured with its approval, and 

 the reports concerning them were printed at 

 the Academy's expense, and crowned at the 

 competitive examination. 



The vital resistance of horned cattle is so 

 feeble, that those animals which are periodi- 

 cally exhibited in the north of London, though 

 certainly chosen from among the most healthy 

 and robust, could not herd together in large 

 numbers for the space of a month in the 

 Agricultural Hall at Islington, without sink- 

 ing under infectious and contagious diseases 



