446 PREVENTIVES FROM ILLNESS 



But if the foregoing directions, as a preventive, 

 are attended to, we are not very likely to require 

 prescriptions for a cure. 



I shall now conclude with the following little 

 hints : 



First, If you or your dog should, at any time, get a severe 

 blow, let the wounded part be instantly fomented with water, as 

 hot as can be borne, for at least half an hour 5 and you will 

 thereby reduce your suffering, or impediment from sport, to at 

 least half its duration. 



Secondly, If you burn yourself in shooting, or otherwise, wrap 

 the part affected immediately in cotton, the application of which, 

 it has been proved, acts like magic with a burn. 



This I was told as a recipe that had been adopted 

 in Paris ; and found it to answer extremely well. 

 But, on proposing it for insertion here, to an old 

 friend, one of our greatest surgeons that ever lived, 

 he assured me that a better recipe was the 



constant application of vinegar. 



Thirdly, If you should take cold, bathe your feet in hot water ; 

 if a little salt or bran is, or both are, added, so much the better. 

 Get into a bed warmed, with a little brown sugar sprinkled on 

 the coals j and tane some whey, or whatever you can get, to pro- 

 mote perspiration. 



This remedy, simple as it is, will often prevent 

 your having recourse to James's powder, &c. and 

 may sometimes, perhaps, save you the expense of 

 twenty pounds for medical attendance. 



Fourthly, Never fast too long; and avoid, whenever you can, 

 fagging too hard, 



