K)2 THE SHOOTER'S GUIDE. 



The preceding receipts are very good, I make no 

 doubt ; but I must honestly confess, I have found 

 more benefit from the syrup of buckthorn than any 

 other medicine. It is of such a nature as to operate 

 as physic, at the same time that it administers, in 

 some measure, to the nourishment of the animal. 



I have known many persons fond of giving castor 

 oil, and, for aught I know, it may be a very good 

 thing ; but it is ten to one the dog throws it up again 

 almost immediately : and this never happens with 

 syrup of buckthorn. 



Before I close the present subject, I cannot for- 

 bear describing the method adopted by my medical 

 friend before mentioned, and by which he almost 

 invariably cures his own dogs. He is a sportsman; 

 and though he has not made the diseases of dogs his 

 particular study, yet the attention he has paid to 

 them, during the practical experience of more than 

 twenty years, renders his opinion highly respectable : 

 When you first perceive the dog's illness, give him 

 half an ounce of salts, dissolved in a tea-cup full of 

 warm water, in the morning; and at night ten grains 

 of compound powder of ipecacuanha, in a little warm 

 water, and keep him in a warm place. If you do 

 not perceive him get better in two or three days, 

 give him sixteen grains of antimonial powder, two 

 grains of powdered fox-glove, mixed with conserve 

 of roses sufficient for four bolusses : give him one 

 night and morning for two days, and on the third a 

 tea-spoon full of powdered Peruvian bark three times 



