120 SIR G. cob's medicine. 



and increasing it according to the above di- 

 rection. The dog should be empty when he 

 takes it, and should have been bled the day 

 before. The dose should be given early in the 

 morning, and the dog may have some thin 

 broth, or pot liquor, about two or three o"'clock, 

 but nothing else during the time he takes the 

 medicine : he should also be kept from water. 

 The best way to give it is in butter, and made 

 up into balls, with a little flour. Care must be 

 taken that he does not throw it up again. Af- 

 ter the last day of the medicine, he may be fed 

 as usual. Various are the drenches and medi- 

 cines which are given for this disorder, and all 

 said to be infallible : this last, however, I pre- 

 fer. The whole pack belonging to a gentleman 

 in my neighbourhood was bitten.; and he assures 

 me, he never knew an instance of a dog who 

 went mad that had taken this medicine. The 

 caution I have recommended to you, I flatter 

 myself will preserve you from this dreadful 

 malady, for which I know not how to recom- 

 mend a remedy. Several years ago I had a 

 gamekeeper much bitten in the fleshy part of 

 his thigh : a horse, that was bitten at the same 

 time, died raving mad : the man was cured by 

 Sir George Cob's medicine. I have heard the 



