110 TUMOURS. 



The likeliest preservative for those that are 

 well is the keeping of them warm at night, and 

 high fed. This disorder being probably infec- 

 tious, it is better to provide an hospital for such 

 as are seized with it, which should be in the 

 back part of the kennel. There is no doubt but 

 some kennels are healthier than others, and con- 

 sequently less liable to it. I apprehend mine 

 to be one of those ; for in a dozen years I do 

 not believe I have lost half that number of old 

 hounds, notwithstanding the great number of 

 whelps I lose at their walks. Neighbouring 

 kennels have not been equally fortunate : I have 

 observed in some of them a disorder unknown 

 in mine; I mean a swelling in the side, which 

 sometimes breaks, but soon after forms again, 

 and generally proves fatal at last. I think I 

 heard a friend of mine say, whose kennel is sub- 

 ject to this complaint, that he never knew but 

 one instance of a dog who recovered from it. I 

 have, however, since known another, in a dog 

 I had from him, which I cured by frequently 

 rubbing with a digestive ointment : the tumour 

 broke, and formed again several times, till at 

 last it went entirely away. The disorder we 

 have now been treating of has this, I think, in 

 common with the putrid sore throat, that it 



