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him?" "Only, this," I said, "that he will be raving 

 mad to-morrow morning" — and so he was. This was, 

 however, the last case that appeared, and but for my 

 quick detection of the slight alteration of manner in this 

 dog, when feeding, the whole pack must have inevitably 

 been destroyed, as he would, no doubt, have bitten most 

 of them during the night, or early in the morning. 



The thing that alarmed me most, however, was the 

 feeder, being bitten quite through the wrist by this dog. 

 He was in the habit of going about the kennel with his 

 arm quite naked up to the shoulder, although I had often 

 cautioned him about it. The whipper-in came running 

 to me directly, to say that the feeder had been bitten 

 through and through on his naked arm. A fearful 

 wound it was, and bled profusely. This I encouraged 

 by warm salt and water, applied as long as I could get 

 any blood to flow. I then made him suck the wound, 

 and when dry I put some lunar caustic immediately into 

 it. The man was greatly alarmed at first, but I succeeded 

 in soothing him to a certain extent, made him go home, 

 and gave him a strong dose of calomel, A doctor was 

 sent for directly, who said I had done quite right, and 

 he could do nothing more except cut out the part bitten 

 or cauterize it, I told him in my opinion the cutting 

 out of the part would be useless, and I thought the 

 caustic I had put into the wound would produce suflicient 

 inflammation and suppuration ; and so it did, for a fear- 

 ful arm he had the next day. We then kept on with 

 drawing poultices, and other ointments, until the wound 

 was healed, which took some time. He had calomel and 

 alteratives continually, but having set his mind upon a 

 good sea dipping, I saw he would not be satisfied with- 



