THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. I^t 



4:lesirous of trying a remedy, the following prescription, I 

 am told, is a very good one : 



Of Turbith's mineral, eight grains. 

 Ditto, sixteen grains, 

 Ditto, thirty-two grains* 



This is to be given for three mornings successively • be- 

 ginning the first day with eight grains, and increasing it 

 according to the above diredlion. The dog should be 

 empty when he takes it, and should have been bled the 

 day before. The dose should be given early in the morn- 

 ing, and the dog may have some thin broth, or pot-liquor, 

 about two or three o'clock, but nothing else during the 

 time he takes the medicine j he should also be kept from 

 waten The best way to give it is in butter, and made up 

 into balls with a little flour. Care must be taken that 

 he does not throw it up again^ After the last day of the 

 medicine, he may be fed as usual. Various are the drenches 

 and medicines which are given for this disorder, and all 

 said to be infallible : this last, however, I prefer. The 

 whole pack belonging to a gentleman in my neighbour- 

 hood were bitten j and he assures me, he never knew an 

 instance of a dog who went mad that had taken this me- 



