NOTITIA VENATIOA. 75 



CHAP. IV. 



ON THE ACCIDENTS AND DISEASES OF HOUNDS, AND 

 THEIR CURES. 



" Morbomm quoque te causas et signa docebo." — Geor. 3rd. 



CONTENTS. 



Comparison between the old farrier and modern vet. — Notice of Blaine's " Canine 

 Pathology" — Distemper, and its cure — Barm an excellent medicine — The dis- 

 temper first brought from France — Major Blagrave's system — Yellows, or jaun- 

 dice — Worms — Dressing and mange — The red mange — Wounds and bites — 

 Strains — Sore feet — Weak or injured eyes — Bite of a viper ; an expeiiment of 

 the Abbe Fontana— Swelled toes — Canker in the ears — Breaking out, and tetters 

 — Fistula— Swelled neck and sore throat — Fractured limbs — Inflammation of 

 the bowels — Physic — Sulphur and salts the best — Shoulder lameness — Lameness 

 in the stifle — Recipe for the rheumatism — Implements and drugs used in the 

 kennel— Canine madness, or rabies — Professor Sewell's opinion — The Warwick- 

 shire hounds afflicted — Mr. Hervey Combe's — Mr. Hall's— William Smith's 

 remedy — The knife and caustic the only cure. 



It may be justly remarked, that not one of the various improvements, 

 upon whicli modern sportsmen can congrattdate themselves, has ren- 

 dered greater benefit to the cause in general than the rapid advancement 

 which veterinary surgery has made during the nineteenth century. That 

 dangerous and disgusting character, the old-fashioned, drunken, and 

 ignorant farrier, has become obsolete ; and a well-educated and en- 

 lightened body of men have sprung up in that niche Avhich has so long 

 been waiting for them. 



The horse, however, has almost entirely engrossed the whole of the 

 attention of the profession, imtil within a short time ; but during the 

 few last years, that most useful, interesting, and companionable animal, 

 the dog, has gradually been creeping up into the notice of those pro- 

 fessional men who practise in the metropohs. And, if we may judge of 

 what we read in the sporting periodicals, the rising generation of veteri- 

 nary surgeons seem anxious not only to make the diseases of the hoi-sc 

 their study, but also to extend their exertions and inquiries to those ma- 

 ladies and accidents to which not only the canine race but also all other 

 domesticated animals arc liable. 



