tl2 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



he runs, the number would appear almofl incre- 

 dible. This he undergoes cheerfully; and, per- 

 haps, three times a week, through a long fea- 

 fon: his health, therefore, well delervcs your 

 care; nor fhould you fufFer the leaft taint to in- 

 jure it. Huntfmen are frequently too negligent 

 in this point. I know one in particular, a fa- 

 mous one too, whofe kennel was never free 

 from the mange, and the fmell of brimflone was 

 oftentimes ftronger, I believe, in the nofes of 

 his hounds than the fcent of the fox. — If you 

 chufe to try a curious prefcription for the cure of 

 the mange, in the Phil. Tranf. No. 25, p. 45 1^, 

 you will find the following : 



'^ Mr. Cox procured an old mungrel cur, all 

 " over mangy, of a middle lize, and having, 

 '' fome hours before, fed him plentifully with 

 " cheefe-parings and milk, he prepared his ju- 

 *' gular vein ; then he made a ftrong ligature on 

 " his neck, that the venal blood might be cmit- 

 ^' ted with the greater impetus; after this, he 

 '^ took a young land fpaniel, about the fame 

 '' bignefs, and prepared his jugular vein like- 

 " wife, that the defcendent part might receive 

 " the mangy dog's blood, and the afccndent dif- 

 " charge his own into a difli; he transfufed 

 " about fourteen or lixtcen ounces of the blood 

 " of the mfeded into the veins of the found dog; 

 *' bv this experiment there appeared no alteration 



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