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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 sufficient 

 inflammation and suppuration ; and so it did, for a fearful 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 without it, and I accordingly sent him down 

 with a friend, and between him and the boatman he waS' 

 nearly drowned. The dog by which he had been bitten 

 died mad. 



This man lived in my service several years afterwards, was 

 married, and returned to his native village. I saw nothing of 

 him until about eight years had elapsed, when he again came to 

 work for me. He was then much altered, perhaps from hard 

 work and hard living, and had become weak in body and almost 

 silly in mind. I gave him a cottage to live in, and made him 

 as comfortable as I could. His health, however, gradually 

 declined, and just nine years after he had been bitten he died. 

 Those who attended him at the last said he died in fits, and 

 barked like a dog. I cannot vouch for this as a fact, but his 

 ■wife is still living, and the man who sat up with him at night. 

 During the four years he lived with me after being bitten he was 

 as usual, but I made him take alteratives at the return of the 

 season when he had been bitten. Should it be really the case, 

 that this man died from the efi'ects of the bite inflicted nine 

 years previously (and tliis fact could be set at rest by the exami- 

 nation of those who attended hiin in his last illness), two points 



