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source, the author has been induced to attribute it to 

 the influences of old age, high breeding, or too stimulat- 

 ing a diet. 



Medicine having appeared to do injury rather than to 

 produce benefit, the author has generally abandoned it in 

 these cases ; whereas those measures which are within 

 the reach of every proprietor, such as change of 

 abode, attention to necessary cleanliness without cau- 

 dling in the bed, wholesome food, and a total abstinence 

 from flesh, added to the daily use of the cold bath with 

 a long run, and constant employment of a penetrative 

 hair-brush to the skin afterwards, have seemed to stay 

 the ravages of the disorder ; and on these, therefore, the 

 author is inclined to place his entire dependence. 



GUTTA SERENA. The author has seen one or two 

 cases of this affection. One was present with disease of 

 the brain, to the increase of which it was clearly traceable. 

 The other was attributable to no known cause ; but as blows 

 on the head are beyond all doubt ascertained to produce this 

 affliction, the author in his own mind has no doubt of its 

 origin. A temporary affection of this nature is also con- 

 stantly witnessed when the dog falls down in a fit, or 

 rather faints from weakness ; as when a female is rearing 

 an undue number of pups, or when a dog has been too 

 largely bled, or retained too long in the warm bath. 



In the last cases, the gutta serena departs as the ani- 

 mal recovers ; but in the first-named, sometimes it is 

 constant, and no medicine appears to affect it for good or 

 for evil. The author, therefore, does nothing in such 



