100. ON PHYSICING HOUNDS IN GENERAL. 



and in liver complaints, calomel and tartarised 

 antimony are undoubtedly indispensable ; but where 

 merely relieving the stomach of its load is the object, 

 I should conceive that the method by which it was 

 effected in the mildest and quickest form would be 

 the best. For this reason, salts are the very best 

 purgative which can be given. The practice of giving 

 salts in human beings is objected to on account of 

 constipation almost invariably following the operation 

 of the medicine ; but with dogs it has quite a contrary 

 effect ; and 1 never knew one single instance of 

 hounds being confined in their bodies, even after the 

 strongest dose. 



The more general practice of administering sulphur 

 is to give a good large dose of it one morning in every 

 week during the summer months, as an alterative ; 

 but if huntsmen would adopt the following plan in- 

 stead, they would find the result far more salutary, and 

 that the quantity of sulphur consumed would go twice 

 as far. About four or five days after giving the first 

 dose of Epsom salts, I would commence with giving 

 sulphur in each day's feed in very moderate quantities, 

 just sufficient to cause the hounds to smell strong of it, 

 for seven or eight successive mornings ; then miss two 

 clear mornings, and on the third give a dose of Epsom 

 salts. In mixing the salts, care should be taken not 

 to scald them, as the practice of so doing will consi- 

 derably weaken their purgative powers, they should 

 be mixed in the trough amongst the lukewarm meat ; 

 the usual allowance is one large handful for each 

 couple of hounds. 



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