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tlicir noble owner has been clone imcler further 

 '^ veterinarian error." 



In the Went worth kennels, I have heard that 

 this alleged hydrophobia manifested itself in the 

 entry of young hounds just brought to kennel 

 from their walks, precisely at the period of the 

 year as previously, and so often noticed by me 

 for sixty years, when madness, arising from tJie 

 common distemjyer, invariahli/, more or less as the 

 severity of the attacks may vary, breaks forth. 

 That long period of sixty years among all this 

 insanity offering to me only one case of hydro- 

 phobia. 



Surely, then, my practice should gain for me 

 the reliance of my brother sportsmen in a far 

 greater degree tlian they would bestow it on a 

 veterinary surgeon whose practice favours or other- 

 wise the stables of the gallant Engineers^ for 

 where he has had — I mean Mr. Flemming — one 

 instance of an insane dog under his care, I must 

 have had thousands; and, as my sport and the 

 sport of my friends depended on the care bestowed 

 by me on the admirable creatures of our daily 

 pleasure, it would not be at all likely tliat ruinous 

 mistakes should be persisted in by the servants 



