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during the cure, be fed on vegetables, as bifcuit, po- 

 tatoes, &c.; and if, before, he was fed on thefe lat- 

 ter fubftances, meat during the cure will affift it. 

 If bleeding is not judged neceffary, a dofe of phyfic 

 is not an improper preliminary ; and, as I have faid 

 before, the cure in all inveterate cafes will be expe- 

 dited by proper alteratives, and recurrence more 

 certainly prevented. See Mange Powders, 

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PHYSIC. 



On many occafions, purging medicines are very 

 proper and ufeful to dogs. In ficknefs, by purging 

 we frequently reflore health; and in health, by the 

 fame means we often enfure its continuance. Cof- 

 tivenefs is very prevalent among dogs, particularly 

 thofe who have little exercife, and are fed wholly 

 on flefh : this complaint frequently occafions piles, 

 and likewife not unfrequently degenerates into ab- 

 folute and obftinate conftipation ; and numerous 

 are the dogs I have fecn deftroycd by this means. 

 In thefe cafes, a proper purgative now and then is 

 highly proper. The difpodtion to fatnefs fome dogs 

 ihew, and which certainly ends in difeafe, is kept 

 down by proper phylic. Fits are frequently arifmg 

 from a coftive habit, and the want of proper phyfic. 

 Worms are removed by purgatives frequently. With- 

 out phyfic, dogs cannot readily be got into hunting 



