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should again be given, in the same proportions as 

 before, followed by a dose of Epsom salts, given in 

 the same manner as the first; this will bring the 

 time, when the hunting season has been continued 

 through the month of April, to about the end of the 

 first week in June, between which period and the end 

 of July the whole pack ought to be dressed ; the best 

 time to dress them is while their coats are stirring, as 

 by attention to that they will be much kinder and 

 brighter, than by dressing them when the hair is set ; 

 as all packs of hounds do not shed their coats exactly 

 at the same time, but vary according to the work they 

 have done, and the physicing and dressing they have 

 undergone during the preceding year ; of course the 

 time for anointino- must be chosen with reo;ard to that 

 period. The young ones should also be physiced and 

 dressed in the same manner as the old ones; some 

 huntsmen dress them twice, but, unless there is a 

 great tendency to redness in their elbows and flanks, 

 the operation once properly performed is quite suf- 

 ficient. If you keep their insides clean and cool, their 

 outsides will naturally become the same; if any of 

 them appear foul in their bodies, or become subject to 

 worms, besides the above course of physic, the balls 

 composed of calomel, antimony, and jalap may be 

 occasionally administered, the receipt for which I 

 have given in the chapter on physic. 



Dressing the hounds will affect many of them 

 equally as if they had had a strong dose of physic; 

 some of them will be more or less swelled in their limbs 

 and testicles, particularly if the turpentine or spirit of 

 tar is rather stronijer than usual. Durino; the time 



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