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CHAPTER IV. 



ON TIJE ACCIDENTS AND DISEASES TO WHICH HOUNDS ARE 

 SUBJECT, AND THEIR CURES. 



" Morborum quoque te causas et signa docebo." — Georc. hi. 



COMPARISON BETWEEN THE OLD FARRIER AND MODERN VET. — BLAINE 9 



CANINE PATHOLOGY. — DISTEMPER. VACCINATION FAILS AS A REMEDY. 



BARM SALUTARY. THE DISTEMPER FIRST BROUGHT FROM FRANCE. 



MAJOR BRAGRAVe's SYSTEM. — YELLOWS OR JAUNDICE. WORMS. 



DRESSING, AND MANGE. — WOUNDS AND BITES. — WEAK EYES- BITE OF 



A VIPER. SWELLED TOES. — CANKER. FISTULA. SWELLED NECK AND 



SORE THRO AT.— FRACTURES. — PHYSIC. — SULPHUR AND SALTS.— SHOULDER 



LAMENESS. RECIPE FOR RHEUMATISM. — IMPLEMENTS. &C CANINE 



MADNESS. THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS AFFLICTED. MR. H. COMBE'S, 



MR. hall's, WM. smith's REMEDY- — THE KNIFE AND CAUSTIC THE 

 ONLY CURE. 



It may be justly remarked, that not one of the various 

 improvements upon which modern sportsmen can 

 congratulate themselves, has rendered greater benefit to 

 society in general than the rapid advancement which 

 veterinary surgery has made during the nineteenth 

 century. That dangerous and disgusting character, 

 the old-fashioned drunken and ignorant farrier, has 

 become obsolete, and a well educated and enlightened 

 body of men have sprung up in that niche, which has 

 so long been waiting for them. 



The horse, however, has almost entirely engrossed the 

 whole of the attention of the profession, until within a 

 short time ; but during the fewlast years, that most useful, 



