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According, then, to my practical knowledge, — and 

 knowledge by reading on this subject, is not know- 

 ledge, because it really is worth nothing unless de- 

 rived from personal experience and close investiga- 

 tion, — the cold bath, or constant swimminrj^ is the 

 only tiling that I have seen have a beneficial effect on 

 '' the kennel lameness." But then comes this query 

 to interfere with the assumed benefit to the kennel 

 lameness from constant swimming in the water. 

 The kennel the lame or foundered hounds came 

 to was a fresh kennel, and not the one whence 

 they had been afflicted ; so it was possible that the 

 kennelj and not the water, had to do, or partially 

 to do, with their recovery. The local benefit 

 reverted to in those days at Berkeley Castle was 

 to give the afflicted hounds their full liberty, when 

 they used to live as they pleased, walk about when 

 they liked, eat what they liked, and sleep in the 

 sheds or under the mangers in the farmyard. 

 After a time, on this plan, they used to recover, 

 and again obtain their places at the head of 

 affairs. 



The " kennel lameness," its origin or cure, 

 remains as, far as my experience goes, without the 

 possibility of beneficial explanation. 



