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to fix considerable estimation, they not only 

 soon gave me opportunity to become exceed- 

 ingly accurate in my remarks, but to adopt 

 such remedies as I should find most appli- 

 cable (in my opinion) to the symptoms of 

 disease. 



Of these, a pointer, of nearly eight months 

 old, was the first attacked. The earliest 

 symptoms of disease were dulness, loathing 

 of food, frequent sickness, and constant vo- 

 miting : these producing in a few days great 

 depression and lassitude, were soon followed 

 by perpetual huskiness in the throat, and 

 difficulty of respiration ; the nose remarks 

 ably dry, and mouth exceedingly hot, with 

 occasional strainings to evacuate by stool 

 without discharge. 



Not having been able to reconcile to my- 

 self the least prospect of success, from the 

 usual operation of ' burning a green in the 

 ' poll with a red-hof iron,' under an idea of 

 the complaint's being in the head, and hav- 

 ing from hourly attention, as well as the 

 most accurate observation, every reason to 

 believe the disease particularly affected th^ 



