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a neighbouring friend repeatedly offered to 

 hunt him in the field, and oppofe his good 

 qualities againft any JJ?2;^/e pointer in the 

 county for a hundred guineas. Thus were 

 two of the fineft dogs in the kingdom pre- 

 ferved by the effed* of experiments, that had 

 they not been brought into trial could never 

 have proved fuccefsfuL 



Whatever might have been my predomi- 

 nant wifh refpedling the other fubjed: of dif- 

 eafe^ profeffional engagemxnts totally pre- 

 cluded every poffibihty of bejftowing the fame 

 perfonal attendance upon htb, had they been 

 equally high in my eftimation : this very want 

 of opportunity had neverthelefs its convenience, 

 fo far as it contributed to eflablifh the pradlice 

 I had adopted with fo much promifed fuccefs. 

 The ufual fymptoms continued to increafe 

 with the violence fo particularly Jefcribed in 

 the firft cafe, till the fourteenth day, when 

 the flight fpafms and twitchings produced 

 convulfions of fom.e duration ; from thefe he 

 fometimes continued perfedly free for four or 

 five hours, when they returned with increaf- 

 ing feverity, but frequent intermifiion ; on the 

 eighteenth day they became inceflint, render- 

 2 ing 



