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good health, and ajDparently not in the least ill, by 

 their eating grass. 



When mad, in the worst phases of common dis- 

 temper, the desire of relief by vomit is manifested 

 by the poor insane creature swallowing bits of 

 straw and chips of wood, the latter gnawed from 

 the bench on which he lies. Man should, therefore, 

 make in with the natural remedy the wandering 

 brain of the patient even thinks of up to the verge 

 of death ; and hnoiving that the hound is not suffer- 

 ing from the fatal contagion of '•'• hydrophobia," 

 instead of ordering the destruction of the poor 

 sufferer, he should at least attempt a rescue, even 

 at the not very great risk of being, so to speak, 

 harmlessly bitten. 



If it could be at once determined which of the 

 two phases of the distemjDcr the attack was going 

 to assume, in the event of its being the worst of 

 the two comprising aberration of intellect through 

 inflammation of the brain, then bleeding might bo 

 useful ; or if the young hounds had not been 

 rounded, to round them, and thus to let them 

 blood, might be attended with favourable conse- 

 quences. Setons at the back of the head, in the 

 neck and throat, on the sides, liquid blister in 



