THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. ICJ 



LETTER VIII. 



YOU dciire to know if there be any remedy 

 for the diftemper among dogs. I Ihall, 

 therefore, mention all the dilbrders which my 

 hounds have experienced, and point out the re- 

 medies which have been of fervice to them. The 

 diftemper you inquire about is, I beheve, the 

 moft fatal (the plague only excepted) that any 

 animal is fubjedl to. Though not long known in 

 this country, it is almoft inconceivable what 

 numbers have been deitroyed by it in lb fhort a 

 period; feveral hundreds I can rayfclf place to 

 this mortifying account. It feems happily to be 

 now on the decline ; at leaft, is lefs frequent and 

 more mild ; and probably in time may be en- 

 tirely removed. The effecls of it are too gene- 

 rally known to need any defcription of them 

 here; I wifh the remedies were known as well ! 



A brother fportfman communicated to me a 

 remedy, which, he faid, his hounds had found 

 great benefit from, viz. an ounce of Peruvian 

 hark, in a glajs of Tort wine, taken twice a day. — 

 It is not infallible; but in fome Hages of this 



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