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his nyxster : and it may not be inapplicable 

 to add, he even now possesses all the perfec- 

 tions of a young dog : and when he was my 

 property, a neighbouring friend repeatedly 

 ' offered to hunt him in the field, and oppose 

 his good qualities against -any si?igk pointer 

 in the county for a hundred guineas. Thus 

 were two of the finest dogs in the kingdom 

 preserved by the effect of experiments, that 

 had they not been brought into trial could 

 never have proved successful. 



Whatever might have been my predomi- 

 nant wish respecting the other subject of dis- 

 ease, professional engagements totally pre- 

 cluded every possibility of bestowing the 

 same personal attendance upon Lofh, had 

 , they been equally high in my estimation : 

 this very want of opportunity had never- 

 theless its convenience, so far as it contri- 

 buted to establish the practice I had adopt- 

 ed with so much promised success. The 

 usual symptoms continued to increase v/ith 

 the violence so particularly described in the 

 case, till the fourteenth day, when the slight 

 spasms and twitchings produced convulsions 



