REMEDIES FOR JIADXESS. 119 



find their good effects. If, notwithstanding, you 

 should at any time have reason to suspect the 

 approach of this evil, let your hounds be well 

 observed at the time when they feed : there can 

 be no danger whilst they will eat. Should a 

 whole pack be in the same predicament, they 

 must be chained up separately : and I should 

 be very cautious what experiment I tried to 

 cure them ; for I have been told by those who 

 have had madness in their kennels, and Avho 

 have drenched their hounds to cure it, that it 

 was the occasion of its breaking out a long time 

 afterwards, and that it continued to do so as 

 long as they gave them any thing to put it off. 

 If a few dogs only have been bitten, you had 

 better hang them. If you suspect any, you had 

 better separate them from the rest ; and a short 

 time, if you use no remedy, will determine 

 whether they are really bitten or not. Should 

 you, however, be desirous of trying a remedy, 

 the following prescription, I am told, is a very 

 good one : 



Of Turbith's mineral, eight grains, 

 Ditto, sixteen grains, 

 Ditto, thirty-two grain?. 



This is to be given for three mornings succes- 

 sively ; beginning the first day with eight grains, 



