108 THOUGHTS UPON" HUNTING. 



diforcler is certainly of ufe. The hound moil m- 

 feded, that ever I knew to recover, was a large 

 ilag-hound; he \ny five days without being able 

 to get off the bench ; receiving little nourifhment 

 durhig the whole time of the diforder, except 

 the medicine, with which he drank three bot- 

 tles of Port wine. You may think, perhaps, 

 the feeder drank his fhare — it is probable he 

 irJght, had it not been fent ready mixed up with 

 the bark. I once tried the foudre unique, think- 

 ing it a proper medicine for a diforder which is 

 faid to be putrid ; but I cannot fay any thing in 

 its favour, with regard to dogs, at leaft. Nor- 

 ris's drops I have alio given, and v/ith fuccefs. I 

 gave a large table- fpoonful of them in an equal 

 quantity of Port wine, three times a day; as the 

 dog grew better, I leficned the quantity. When 

 dogs run much at the nofe, nothing will contri- 

 bute more to the cure of them than keeping that 

 part clean ; when that cannot conveniently be 

 done, emetics will be necelTary: the beft I know 

 is a large fpoonful of common fait, difTolved in 

 three fpoonfuls of warm water.* The iirft fymp- 

 tom of this diforder generally is a cough. As 

 foon as it is perceived amongft my young hounds, 

 great attention is paid to them : they have plenty 



* The quantity of fait muft be proportioned to the fize of 

 t]ie dog, and to the difficulty there may be to make iiim va-, 

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