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most liberal and judicious experiments. 

 Nothing that human skill could suggest or 

 accomplish was left untried, until at length 

 it was determined to remove the hounds to a 

 kennel at another part of the country, where, 

 under precisely the same management, they 

 are sound and well. 



' ' In conversation with a friend a short time 

 since, a M. F. H., he made the remark, that 

 if I could make the discovery of a cure for 

 this disorder, I should be entitled to honors 

 and distinctions too superfluous to mention. 

 My reply was simply this : *A remedy has 

 been discovered, not by myself, for I desire no 

 merit w^hich I am not entitled to, but it is 

 clearly proved that removal to a healthy site 

 will effect all that is desired.' The removal 

 must not, however, be undertaken without 

 mature consideration, in order to ascertain 

 if the proposed new situation is perfectly free 

 from the causes which produce the disorder. 

 Clay soils may be denominated the most 

 eligible; light sandy soils and light soils on 

 chalk, are the worst. Any attempt to cure 

 the complaint on a situation which so 

 evidently engenders it, is like trying to heal a 

 wound while the substance which created it 



