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Three drachms is a proper dose for a full- 

 grown pointer ; but, as a dog will sometimes 

 throw it up, instead of giving him three 

 drachms at one dose every other day, until 

 you have given three doses, I advise you to 

 give him only one drachm every day, for 

 nine days following: this will cleanse him 

 well. However, I generally have given 

 my dogs one drachm and a half of ju- 



LAP, MIXED UP INTO A BALL WITH SYRUP OF 



BUCKTHORN ; three doses, stopping one day 

 between each dose ; and I find this cleanses 

 them very well. 



When a dog looks unkindly in his coat, 

 glass. though he has been physicked, give him 



THREE DOSES OF POWDERED GLASS, as mUch 



as will lie heaped up on a shilling to each 

 dose. This will make his coat very fine, 

 and he will look well in his skin ; besides, 

 it is a very great cleanser. The powdered 

 glass must not be made of the green glass 

 bottles, but from broken decanters and wine* 

 glasses, powdered and ground in an iron 

 mortar, then sifted through a fine muslin 

 sieve. 



Of powdered 



