DISTEMPER. 253 



Since my earlier publications, I have been favoured 

 with the following recipe from Dr. Taylor, of East Yar- 

 mouth ; and from its great repute, as well as that of 

 the gentleman to whom I am indebted for it, I am in- 

 duced (though I have not yet tried it) to give this recipe 

 insertion. 



RECIPE. 



Gum gambouge . . . .20 grains. 



White hellebore powder . . .30 grains. 



To be made in six balls. 



One to be given to a full grown dog, six following mornings (or half 

 the quantity to a puppy)- 



The dog to be kept warm, and fed on milk and gruel. 



By an anonymous letter (for which I beg leave to 

 thank the author of it, whoever he may be), I was in- 

 duced, with the able assistance of a medical sportsman, 

 to try, as a preventive to the distemper, the vaccine 

 inoculation. We made the experiment on several dogs, 

 and we could not afterwards hear that any one of them 

 had taken the distemper. But whether this was the 

 effect of chance, or whether the remedy can always be 

 depended on, I must leave to the decision of those 

 persons, who are better versed in the diseases of dogs 

 than myself. At all events, the remedy is so innocent, 

 that there can be no harm in trying it; and I shall 

 conclude under this head, with the insertion of the 

 letter, which, after what I have said, it would be neg- 

 ligent to omit. 



" SIR; 



" As a stranger I know not what business I have to 

 trouble you, but, from the subject of my letter, you will, as a sports- 

 man, probably pardon the intrusion. I should tell you I have lately 

 purchased your l Instructions to Young Sportsmen,' and I do not in- 

 tend to flatter, when I say, it is by far the best book on shooting I ever 



