*6 The Sedgefield Country 



in producing a satisfactory result. It may be interesting to 

 those who have given attention to the pecuHarities of the 

 disease which attacked our pack, to read a letter received a 

 short time ago from a friend in India, to whom a draft of 

 four couples of our hounds were sent early in September 

 last. 'Bangalore, January 17th, 1872, — I was very sorry to 

 see in the home papers of the very bad luck you have 

 had with the hounds. Can you kindly tell me what the 

 symptoms of the disease were, and the general result of 

 any post vwrtems you made ? I ask you to do this, as all 

 the hounds I got from England this year (fourteen couples) 

 have died of something which has baffled everyone here, 

 doctors and vets, included. The four couples I got from the 

 Durham country were the first attacked, then two couples 

 of Cradock's, and afterwards, eight couples I bought in 

 London. The sick hounds were kept entirely separate from 

 the others, and as I said before, the disease was one which 

 we here were not acquainted with.' The hounds would 

 arrive in India about the same time as we had our first case, 

 and the symptoms, I have heard from another source, were 

 loss of the use of the lower jaw and power of swallowing — 

 in fact, precisely the same as in our hounds ; thus proving, 

 of which before there was but little doubt, that the disease 

 lies dormant in the system a considerable time, and that it 

 is both infectious and contagious. The four couples were 

 impregnated with the disease when they left our kennels; 

 the other hounds during the passage out caught the infec- 

 tion, and, notwithstanding all the care afforded them, the 

 result was the same as here — they all died.' " 



