84 MAJOR BLAG rave's SYSTEM. 



occurrence ; for when once they have made their 

 attack, art is too apt to fail in attempting their removal. 

 The best preventive means that I know of, are to avoid 

 or to remove all circumstances tending to produce 

 debility, as looseness, low poor diet, too much exercise, 

 exposure to cold, extreme evacuation from the nose, 

 and no less the operation of mental irritation from fear, 

 surprise, or regret ; all of which, I must again repeat, 

 are very common causes of fits in distemper."* 



BALLS TOR THE DISTEMPER. 



Tartar emetic twelve grains 

 Opium six grains 

 Camphor two drachms. 

 To be mixed and divided into six balls. 



Give to a large dog two balls, to a small dog one 

 ball, fasting, for several mornings, or as occasion may 

 require. 



When dogs first begin to husk is the proper time to 

 attack the disease, and at that period 1 have frequently 

 given three or four cloves (not heads) of garlic beat up 

 with butter with success. This disease exists in various 

 degrees of virulence, in some instances it is so severe 

 that it will carry off those attacked in twenty-four 

 hours, whilst in others, a lingering illness is the result. 

 Major Blagrave, who kept harriers many years, told 

 me that he used to pursue the following method, and 

 that he was convinced it was the cause of saving; the 

 lives of a great number of puppies. As soon as he 

 had seven or eight couples, grown very strong and 



* The practice of dressing or anointing young hounds when suffering from 

 distemper is by no means to be recommended ; although the seasonable use of 

 this most salutary application preserves health, and renders not only distemper, 

 but other diseases less violent in their attacks. 



