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PHYSIC 



SHOULD be given to dogs before they begin their 

 hard work. Nothing is better than a mixture of one 

 ounce of jalap and a pint of syrup of buckthorn. 

 With a large tablespoonful of this mixture every dog 

 should be drenched twice in each of the two weeks 

 preceding the sporting season. The dogs should also, 

 in hot weather, have some pieces of brimstone in 

 their water-troughs. If people would only take this 

 trouble, we should not so often hear of dogs going 

 mad, or dropping down dead in the field. 



STRAINS OR BRUISES. 



I HAVE always found, that an immediate and long 

 continued application of water, as hot as it can pos- 

 sibly be borne, is, in these cases, the best fomenta- 

 tion that can be applied to man or beast. 



After this, you may use, with wet rags, the fol- 

 lowing saturnine lotion : 



RECIPE. 



Acetated lead . .2 ounces. 



Vinegar, and water, of eacli . 4 P* nt - 



Mixed together *. 



* I think it proper to express my thanks for an amendment to 

 this recipe in the " Sporting Magazine," which, I am proud to 

 see, speaks so handsomely of this work ; though, by the way, I 

 regret that I should have led the editor to suppose I am attached 



