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however, be desirous of trying a remedy, the fol- 

 lowing prescription, I am told, is a very good one : 



Of Turbith's mineral, eight grains, 

 Ditto, sixteen grains, 

 Ditto, thirty-two grains. 



This is to be given for three mornings successively ; 

 beginning the first day with eight grains, and in- 

 creasing; it according; to the above direction. The 

 dog should be empty when he takes it, and should 

 have been bled the day before. The dose should be 

 given early in the morning, and the dog may have 

 some thin broth, or pot-liquor, about two or three 

 o'clock, but nothing else during the time he takes 

 the medicine ; he should also be kept from water. 

 The best way to give it is in butter, and made up 

 into balls with a little flour. Care must be taken 

 that he does not throw it up again. After the last 

 day of the medicine, he may be fed as usual. Various 

 are the drenches and medicines which are given for 

 this disorder, and all said to be infallible : this last, 

 however, I prefer. The whole pack belonging to 

 a gentleman in my neighbourhood were bitten ; and 

 he assures me, he never knew an instance of a dog 

 who went mad that had taken this medicine. The 

 caution which I have recommended to you, I flatter 

 myself will preserve you from this dreadful malady ; a 

 malady for which I know not how to recommend a 

 remedy. Several years ago I had a game-keeper 

 much bitten in the fleshy part of his thigh : a horse 

 that was bitten at the same time died raving mad : 

 the man was cured by Sir George Cobb's medicine. 



