^28 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTINGf, 



tioned in this Letter, an excellent sportsman, to whom I have 

 many obligations), wilj answer the purpose best j and on 

 their change of diet, from milk to meat, may be sometimes; 

 necessary : 



Three quarters of an ounce of quicksilver. 

 Half a pint of spirits of turpentine, 

 Four ounces of hog's-lard. 

 One pound of soft soap, 



Three ounces of common turpentine, in which the quicksilver 

 must be killed. 



Jnstinfl direds dogs, when the stomach is out of order, to 

 be their own physician j and it is to their example that we 

 owe our knowledge how to relieve it. It may appear fo' 

 reign to our present purpose ; yet as it is much (if true) to 

 the honour of animals in general, 1 must beg leave to add 

 what a French author tells us — that also by the hippopota- 

 mus we are instrudled how to bleed, and by the crane how 

 to give a clyster. I have already declared my disapprobation 

 pf bleeding hounds, unless they absolutely want it : when 

 fhey refuse their food, from having been over-worked ; or 

 when they have taken a chill, to which they are very subjedlj 

 then the loss of a httle blood may be of use to recover them. 

 Sick hounds will recover sooner if suffered to run about the 

 Jiouse, than if they be confined in the kennel. 



