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and thirty of jalap, on every third morning for five or six mornings, and 

 feeding them twice a day as long as they are taking the pills ; if it is 

 in the summer, and the weather is fine, they may go to moderate exercise 

 with the rest. Some huntsmen are in the habit of using common reddle, 

 mixed up in the food once a week during the simimer months. I once 

 asked Wm. Boxall, Avho siicceeded J. Wood in the office of huntsman to 

 the Warwickshire pack, why he used it ; but the only intelligence I 

 coidd gain was that " it was a rare thing for the blood." Now reddle is 

 nothing more nor less than red chalk, which is an absorbent earth ; and 

 I coidd never discover any peculiar projierties in it which are not found 

 in the common white chalk, excepting its difference in colour. Other 

 hounds which have the same symptoms as those described above, are 

 also at times afflieted with purging, which arises from the same causes, 

 and is part and parcel of the same complaint ; and until a more healthy 

 action of the stomach is produced, we must in vain look for an amend- 

 ment in cither the appetite or secretions. From an undue fermentation, 

 and the digestion becoming morbid, an acid and phlegm-like accumidation 

 takes place on the coats of the stomach ; and, as Dr. Whytt has justly 

 observed that Avhen much phlegm is collected in the stomach and intes- 

 tines their nerves arc rendered less sensible of the stimulus of the aU- 

 ments, their absorbent vessels are partly obstructed, and the gastric and 

 intestinal lymph is more sparingly secreted, or at least becomes more 

 viscid. This observation was made with regard to the luxman frame, 

 but it is well known that the organic structure in the stomach of dogs 

 differs but little from that of human beings, both being omnivorous ani- 

 mals ; many diseases being common to both, and having almost the 

 same symptoms in each, for instance, the jaimdico or yellows, inflam- 

 mation of the bowels, and many others. Iron or copper introduced into 

 the stomachs of those which are dyspeptic and weak in their digestions, 

 very frecpiently increases the appetite and vigour of the circulation. I 

 have tried occasionally one grain and a half of blue vitriol pulverized, 

 and rolled up in a pill, and given every morning for a week or ten days, 

 with great success. But, after all, the grand secret is, never to allow 

 any hound to eat at one time to satiety, and feed early and tliich during 

 the huntino- season. 



