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to, and those that are born, bred, and perhaps constantly reside 

 in cities, towns, or other close situations. These instructions are 

 necessarily confined to no one meridian : as well as the more 

 healthy country animal, they embrace also the pet, and pampered 

 favourite, that is perhaps immured twenty-three out of the twenty- 

 four hours in a hot drawing or bed-room, breathing the same con- 

 fined air, eating the same luxurious food, and exercising in the 

 same easy carriage, with his owner. A life so wholly artificial 

 alters the mental and bodily properties to such a degree, of such 

 as are subjected to it, that their constitutional tendency to disease 

 is almost as great as that of those they belong to : under disease 

 their irritability is nearly equal, the diversities of their symp- 

 toms alike numerous ; and, consequently, they require every por- 

 tion of that caution and attention I have prescribed to insure their 

 recovery. 



PROFESSIONAL ATTENDANCE AND ADVICE FOR DOGS. 



I PRESUME I hardly need to further inform the proprietors of 

 dogs, that no written instructions can meet every case ; the varia- 

 tions in disease, the anomalies attending the symptoms accompany- 

 ing it, and the impropriety of giving even the most accredited re- 

 medies in particular cases, all require the judgment of a medical 

 practitioner. Neither, I presume, is it necessary, after what has 

 been observed on the peculiarities of the canine constitution, to 

 insist much on the little certainty of deriving benefit from even 

 professional attendance, unless such professional attendant should 

 have made the diseases of dogs an object of particular inquiry. 

 Fortunately for the race, Mr. Youatt, who first studied under me, 

 and who has since far outstripped his master, for some years pur- 

 sued the practice which I had established in Nassau Street ; but 

 this interfering with his public lectures both at home and abroad, 

 he relinquished it to Mr. Ainslie, a veterinary surgeon of whom 

 report speaks well, and who lately resided in the same house in 

 Nassau Street, Middlesex Hospital, so long occupied by ourselves 



