ox DISTEMPER AND MADNESS AMONG IIOUNDH. 1 2d 



})liysiciaii, tlio present Lady Tierney was kind 

 enougli and tlioi*glitful enough to place in my pos- 

 session a letter Sir Matthew Tierney had received 

 from his hrother physician the late celebrated 

 Dr. Jenner. 



Tliat autograph letter was to inform Tierney that 

 Doctor Jenner himself had tried vaccination on 

 the dog, and unmistakably discovered it to be a-s* 

 j^owerful a prevention against the distemper in dogs 

 as it had proved to be against the small-pox in 

 man. Prevention^ be it remembered, not cure. 

 Dr. Jenner had tried it at his residence in the 

 town of Berkeley, on dogs in his own possession, 

 witli the most ' complete success, and thus the fact 

 came from him to Sir Matthew Tierney, and 

 through the latter, as I have described, to me. 

 Many years ago I promulgated this fact as widely 

 as I could, and in many cases vaccinated Avith my 

 own hands my young hounds and dogs, teaching, 

 to the best of my ability, all men who desired to 

 be taught ; but, as usual in similar cases, there was 

 a vast amount of vulgar disbelief in a remedy so 

 curious and unknown. 



There were two facts that greatly militated 

 against a wide and established, or generally 



