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the time to vaccinate hounds and dogs were not 

 persisted in, from the trouble they gave to servants, 

 as well as from the failures arising from the clumsy, 

 careless way in which the undertaking was treated, 

 and the impossibility of procuring lymph. 



When the lot of young hounds come into kennel 

 from walk, at their then age, that the seeds of 

 the kennel curse, the distemper, among them are 

 latent, does not admit of the shadow of a doubt ; 

 and, therefore, to attempt to vaccinate may be 

 utterli/ useless. Success can only be arrived at as 

 follows; and here I solemnly offer to masters of 

 hounds, not the cure of what is vulgarly termed 

 ^'rabies" or '' dumb -madness," hut its effectual 

 2orevention, The whelps should all and each l3e 

 vaccinated previously to being sent to '' walk," 

 when of an age to have their mothers removed 

 from them. 



Each whelp, on being vaccinated, should be 

 confined for three or four days in a separate 

 space by liimself, and the punctuation made by 

 the lancet, and the action or otherwise of the 

 lymph, should be watched continuously, for the 

 second, third^ or fourth day. 



If the operation has taken, a slight inflammation, 



