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this simple recipe, I should prefer the one first given, 

 because there is less chance of a dog taking cold 

 with that, than with any kind of mercurial prepara- 

 tion. 



Since my earlier publications, I have been fa- 

 voured with the following recipe from Dr. Taylor, 

 of East Yarmouth ; and from its great repute, as 

 well as that of the gentleman to whom I am in- 

 debted for it, I am induced (though I have not yet 

 tried it) to give this recipe insertion. 



RECIPE. 



Gum gambouge . . . -20 grains. 



White hellebore powder . . .30 grains. 



To be made in six balls. 



One to be given to a full grown dog, six following mornings (or 

 half the quantity to a puppy). 



The dog to be kept warm, and fed on milk and gruel. 



By an anonymous letter (for which I beg leave to 

 thank the author of it, whoever he may be), I was 

 induced, with the able assistance of a medical sports- 

 man, to try, as a preventive to the distemper, the 

 vaccine inoculation. We made the experiment on 

 several dogs, and we could not afterwards hear that 

 any one of them had taken the distemper. But 

 whether this was the effect of chance, or whether the 

 remedy can always be depended on, I must leave to 

 the decision of those persons, who are better versed 

 in the diseases of dogs than myself. At all events, 

 the remedy is so innocent, that there can be no harm 

 in trying it ; arid I shall conclude tinder this head, 



