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puppy Avill be dull, and decline its food to some little 

 extent for twenty-four hours. On other occasions 

 there may be no observable effect on the stomach, 

 or on the spirits, although a slight scab on the 

 puncture and a little festering in or beneath it will 

 testify to the operation having sufficiently succeeded. 

 Puppies cannot be vaccinated at too early an age 



, after heing taken from their mother^ or after being 

 weaned. Her tongue then will not lick the places, 

 nor are the seeds of distemper likely to be in their 

 systems. Besides this, they can be held quietly in 

 a man's arms ; there will be no anger, biting, nor 

 struggling, no increased circulation of the blood, 

 but the operation will be given ample opportunity 



for success. 



My two last patients under vaccination have been 

 three times operated on by my friend Dr. Philpots, 

 of Poole. In the two first instances I was dubious 

 of the result, but on the third Dr. Philpots himself, 

 on inspection at the right time, pronounced that 

 vaccination lutd been complete. The puppies are a 

 setter of the old Irish red sort, and a spaniel by 

 my famous old liver- and- white dog, '^ Bruce." We 

 shall now see if they remain free from the dis- 

 temper ; but in thus referring to them as incidental 



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