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of ten lie cannot swallow. His brother in affliction 

 Avlio suffers not in so great a degree^ and from a 

 totally different disease, will not only lap, but lie 

 will, when not too severely attacked, swallow the 

 water, and be refreshed by the cooling nature of 

 the ingredient it contains. The almost always fatal 

 sign of death in cases of the common distemper, 

 and insanity arising from it, is when a succession of 

 fits supervene ; recovery is very hopeless on the 

 first appearance of that frightful struggle for life. 



Many of the hounds and greyhounds that I have 

 w^atched through the insanity of distem2)er, and 

 treated as I describe, have recovered, to aid me in 

 the death of many a fox and hare, and some of the 

 greyhounds have run for stakes at the coursing 

 meetings. Some hounds will completely recover 

 their health; but at times the distemper will leave 

 behind it a paralytic shaking or dodging of the 

 forehand of the .hound; and if this species of 

 paralysis is so manifested, the hound or greyhound 

 so suffering can never recover from it, nor be of 

 any use in the field. 



Now, as to the contagion of distemper being given 

 from one hound to the other. Contact will com- 

 municate it from young hounds to old, though the 



