ThIE DOG. 



temper very violently : what I mean by high food, is 

 carrion, flesh, &c. Now, if your young dog is fed 

 with potatoes and buttermilk, or skimmed milk, or 

 potatoes alone, weak broth, and such simple food, and 

 occasionally takes a small dose of sulphur; he will not 

 suffer much from this disease, and require little or no 

 medicine. Inoculation is a method highly to be re- 

 cdmmended. You should physic your young dog 

 with sulphur, and also bleed him ; and then, if you 

 can find a dog that lias the distemper (if favourably 

 perhaps the better) take some of the infectious mu- 

 cus from his nostrils, and place it with a rowel in 

 your dog's neck, or through his lip, rubbing, at the 

 same time, a little on his nose, and with a feather put- 

 ting some up his nostrils ; in a day or two, give him 

 about two table spoonfuls of castor oil. I have not 

 the smallest hesitation in recommending this method 

 of inoculation, as I have seen it tried with success, 

 though I never practise it myself. J have been very 

 credibly informed that the cow-pock inoculation will 

 prevent the distemper. But of all things, I am cer- 

 tain, fiom repeated trials, that nothing so much pre- 

 vents the virulence and fatal effects of this disorder as 

 feeding on simple food, and giving sulphur occasion- 

 ally, as above mentioned ; and this simple food too 

 will make your dog sufficiently fat. 



" The remote cause of the Distemper is difficult 

 to explain, nor do the most careful dissections in 

 every stage of the complaint ascertain more, than that 

 there is a general inflammation of the mucous mem- 



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