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having lost several brace of greyhounds from one 

 night's bad lodging. 



Mr Daniel is of opinion that Blaine's medicine is 

 an effectual remedy : it is made up in packets, marked 

 with different numbers, i, 2, and 3. For a New- 

 foundland dog, mastiff, pointer, and setter. No. i 

 should be used, for fox-hounds, harriers, and other 

 dogs of a middling, size, use No. 2 ; and for cockers, 

 and all other varieties, No. 3 will prove a sufficient 

 dose. He found that soon after administering 

 Blaine's powders, even although the disease had 

 got to a height, the violence of the symptoms abated, 

 the spasms became less frequent, and generally 

 within twenty-four hours they completely subsided, 

 leaving only a slight discharge from the nose. Our 

 own experience completely coincides with that of 

 Mr Daniel, although in some instances it will last 

 for weeks ; in the event of which I would recommend 

 strict attention to the state of the bowels, and that 

 the nose be frequently fomented with pieces of flannel 

 dipped in hot milk and water. 



Colonel Hawker recommends, in the case of a 

 discharge from the nose, the use of a lotion, made 

 by mixing half-an-ounce of sugar of lead, and the 

 same quantity of alum, with a pint of water, and 

 that the nose should be syringed with it. However 

 effectual such applications may be in stopping the 

 discharge, yet I cannot too strongly condemn the 

 use of them, as having a tendency to bring on other 

 diseases in the mucous membrane of the nose, and 

 thereby affect, if not totally destroy, the olfactory 

 nerves. But the truth is, the discharge from the nose 

 is by no means an unfavourable symptom : the main 

 risk the dog runs in this disease is from internal 

 inflammation, and not from any affection of the 



