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caped, as the dog twice flew at him ; a few minutes after the 

 dog had quitted the yard, the people who had pursued, gave no- 

 tice of the dog's madness, who had made terrible havoc in a 

 course of ten miles from whence he had set off. The spaniel was 

 a great favourite, liad medicine applied, and every precaution ta- 

 ken ; upon the fourteenth day he appeared to loathe his food, and 

 his eyes looked unusually heavy : the day following he endeavored 

 to lap milk, but could swallow none ; from that time the tongue 

 began to swell : he moved but seldom and on the third day he died ; 

 for many hours previous to his death, the tongue was so enlarged, 

 that the fangs or canine teetli could not meet each other by up- 

 wards of an inch. The hounds were some years after parted with, 

 and were sold in lots : a madness broke out in the kennel of the 

 gentleman who purchased many of them, and although several of 

 these hounds were bitten and went mad, only one of them ever 

 attempted to bite, and that was a hound from the Duke of Port- 

 land's, who in the operation of worming had the worm broke by 

 his struggling, and was so troublesome that one half of it was suf. 

 fered to remain ; the others all died with symptoms similar to the 

 terrier and spaniel, viz : a violent swelling of the tongue, and a 

 stupor rendering them nearly motionless, and both which symp- 

 toms seemed to increase with the disease. The idea that worming 

 prevents a dog from receiving the infection when bitten should be 

 exploded ; but the foregoing show how far it may be recommended 

 for the restriction of a malady horrid in its effects, where a human 

 being is concerned, and which to the sportsman and farmer are at- 

 tended with such dangerous and expensive consequences. Blaine 

 on the contrary, asserts, that the practice of worming is wholly 

 useless and founded in error ; and that the existence of any thing 

 like a worm under the tongue is incontestibly proved to be false ; 

 and that what has been taken for it, is merely a deep ligature of 

 the skin, placed there to restrain the tongue in its motions. He 

 also observes, that the pendulous state of the tongue in what is 

 called dumb madness, with the existence of a partial paralysis of 

 the under jaw, which they could not bite, having happened to dogs 

 previously wormed, has made the inability to be attributed to this 

 source, but wliich is wholly an accidental circumstance ; and hap- 

 pens equally to the wormed and unwormed dog, 



262. The worming of whelps is performed with a lancet, to slit 

 the thin skin which immediately covers the worm ; a small awl is 

 then to be introduced under the centre of the worm to raise it up ; 

 tiie farther end of the worm will with very little force make its 

 appearance, and with a cloth taking hold of that end, the other 

 will be drawn out easily ; care should be taken that the whole of 



