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to. Flesh over-boiled is divested of its 

 nutritive properties in a very great degree. 

 It may be remarked by some, those who are 

 advocates for excessive boiling, that if the 

 nutritive properties are extracted from the 

 flesh, they are contained in the broth, and that 

 broth being given to the hounds, the nutritious 

 principles are still preserved — an argument 

 which I can by no means agree to. 



'* Like man, the hound is found to thrive 

 best upon food composed of flesh and grain 

 combined, consequently a comparison between 

 the two may with propriety be introduced. 

 When a man undergoes the ordeal of training 

 for an athletic engagement, the animal food 

 which he partakes of is only subject to the 

 process of cooking in a moderate degree; 

 overdone meat is studiously avoided. To the 

 valetudinarian broth is prescribed as afford- 

 ing light nourishment with a moderate 

 expenditure of the powers of digestion, but 

 is never called in aid to form a principal 

 portion of the aliment for the human subject 

 at a time when great exertion is required. It 

 is always found that broth creates thirst with 

 us, and there is no doubt it has the same 

 effect on the hound when given to a great ex- 



