J20 rnoUGHTS upon HUNIlKd. 



keeping them warm at night, and feeding them high. This 



disorder being probably infedious, it is better to provide 



an hospital for such as are seized with it, which should be 



in the back part of the kennel. There is no doubt that 



some kennels are healthier than others, and consequently 



his liable to it. 1 apprehend mine to be one of those; 



for, in a dozen years, I do not believe that I have lost half 



that number of old hounds, although I lose so great a 



number of whelps at their walks. Neighbouring ken-nels 



have not been ec.ual'y fortunate: 1 have observed m some 



of them a disorder unknown in mine ; I mean a swelling 



in the side, which sometimes breaks, but soon after forms 



again, and generally proves fatal at last. — 1 once hear'd 



a friend of mine say, whose kennel is subjctfl to this 



com.plaint, that he never knew but one instance of a 



dog that recovered from it. I have, however, since known 



another, in a dog that 1 had from him, which I cured 



by frequently rubbing with a digestive ointment: the 



tumor broke and formed again several times, till at last it 



entirely disappeared. The disorder that we have now been 



treating of lias this, I think, in common with the putrid 



sore throat, that it usually attacks the weakest. Women 



are more apt to catch the sore tliroat than men ; children 



