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of some duration ; from these he sometimes 

 continued perfectly free for four or five hours, 

 when they returned with increasing severity, 

 but frequent intermission ; on the eighteenth 

 day they became incessant, rendering the 

 sight truly distressing, and closing the scene, 

 after a convulsive lit of near four hours, 

 without the least deviation or relief. 



From the event of this unassisted case, (as 

 well as many others among my ^sporting 

 friends), in direct contrast to those already 

 recited, I had a very fair and undoubted 

 plea to congratulate myself upon a discovery 

 that had hitherto promised every hope of 

 f^uccess upon repetition, and justly laid claim 

 to the test oi farther trial, when time should 

 afford an opportunity for additional demon- 

 stration. 



Such proofs have since occured as leave 

 no room to doubt, the propriety of the prac- 

 tice; iirijt in a pointer, son of the dog whose 

 recovery is before-mentioned, and now in a 

 gentleman's possession at Biniield, who was 

 attacked when about nine months old ; and^ 



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