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^^park,"* neither teeth nor hinder toe-nails can 

 attain for their discomfort or destruction ; and 

 herein the natural instincts even of fleas may 

 be held to have led to safer conclusions than 

 one of the heads in a Veterinary College. 



This last place, on the loin above the stern, 

 in my opinion, is not the one for choice. The 

 skin there is thick, the integuments coarse, and 

 the facilities for taking up the lymph are not so 

 2:)rone to receive it as in other places. The car, 

 or both ears, and on the breast below the point 

 of each shoulder, those are the places most fitted 

 for the operation. 



If vaccination is attempted on. the full-sized 

 young hound or dog, there is a chance of the 

 blood being pre-occupied by the disease Avhich 

 is sought to be prevented. The distemper may 

 have, as previously noticed, the first hold, and 

 tlms exclude the remedy, and men be led to 

 wrong conclusions. In addition to this, the inner 



"" I borrow that definition of a sleeping place for those insects, 

 from an old and intoxicated woman's vocabulary, in the City of 

 London, who being brought up for offences before the Lord Mayor, 

 on receiving her sentence, threatened, " on regaining her liberty, to 

 visit the bed of that powerful functionary, and pull him out of it," 

 at the same time giving his resting-place that lively appellation. 



