138 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



disarranged state of their stomachs and action of 

 the liver. 



At their walks, particularly in a dairy country, 

 OS well as on large sheep farms, much offal is 

 picked u]) by the puppies. They must be left to 

 run about the fields and to enjoy a hunt after a 

 hare or rabbit, or their ^'walks'' would not be 

 worth having, nor their limbs straight and full 

 grown; so the first thing to attend to on their 

 arrival in the kennel is their general health and 

 any indication of a disordered stomach. The 

 stomach can very soon be set to rights by the 

 administration of from six to seven grains of grey- 

 powder, and in severe cases repeated doses of 

 calomel, beginning with five grains and ranging 

 up to ten. To a large bloodhound in France, who 

 had been most severely attacked by the yellows, 

 and then, in a French kennel of course^, neglected, 

 I have given as much as fifteen grains, and cured 

 him when his flanks, his gums, his ears, his sides, 

 and the ell)ows were as yellow as gold. 



But to proceed with the distemper. The first 

 thing to be administered to a puppy at all ailing 

 is a vomit. It is the natural and often referred to 

 remedy of the canine race, as proved when in general 



