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silence for one hour, and at the expiration of that time 

 the dose is to be repeated. This treatment is to be 

 repeated ad infinitum, until the creature coils itself up 

 and prepares to go to sleep, when one more injection is to be 

 given, and the animal left to itself to recover at its leisure. 



This treatment Mr. Mayhew declares to be absolute 

 and almost unfailing, and although I have never tried it, I 

 have no doubt of its merit. 



With this I shall pass from the kennel to the field 

 management of dogs, and the various species of game, in 

 pursuit of which they are employed, only advising all 

 persons of mature experience, who determine, or who are 

 compelled by necessity to act as veterinarians to their own 

 dogs, to use Mayhew in preference to all other authorities. 

 He is clearly the most scientific, the mildest and the most 

 simple in his treatment, of all who have written on the 

 subject. All those, who are not maturely experienced, I 

 recommend to take the best advice they can get, as medi- 

 cal men say pro re nata / and above all things to avoid 

 bleeding, and dabbling in energetic remedies and specific 

 nostrums, recommended by grooms, dogbreakers, and old, 

 knowing hands, which in ninety-nine cases out of the hun- 

 dred will but make bad worse, and will probably kill ten 

 where they will cure one patient. 



