no FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



any available spot, as before alluded to, should be 

 persisted in ; for in the long career of my personal 

 experience as huntsman in and out of the kennel, 

 I have observed that if upon the bodies of the 

 young hounds attacked with inflammation and 

 temporary insanity, the disease takes an external 

 turn and ])reaks out cutaneously all over the body, 

 then in that case the young hound gains relief, 

 returns to his senses, and is almost sure to recover. 



It was this observation in resj)ect to the eruption 

 on the skin that suggested to me to encourage the 

 object of nature in every possible way. 



In regard to the less severe phases of the common 

 distemper, when the brain is not affected to insanity, 

 on no account let the system be lowered. On the 

 contrary, abstain from letting blood, and support the 

 frame by every choice in food ; keep the patient 

 warm, and repeatedly sponge his nose with vinegar 

 during the course of the day. If you observe that 

 the body needs internal relief, then give small doses 

 of the grey-powder — I prefer it to aloes — and keep 

 in each kennel of distemper a little nitre in the stone 

 at which the hounds drink. The hound mad from 

 what is so erroneously called ^^ rabies" or ^'dumb- 

 madness " will try to drink, but in nine cases out 



