€0 HUNTING DIRECTORY. 



Description of 



distemper, accompanied with a little opening medicine, 

 syrup of buckthorn, for instance. In the kennel of Sir 

 Harry Mainwaring, the distemper generally swept away 

 a third of the young hounds at least. In the present year 

 (1826) my system of treating the distemper was adopted, 

 and a single whelp has not been lost ; in fact, not one has 

 been seriously affected. Head, the huntsman, bled them 

 freely on the first indication of the disease, and admini- 

 stered an opening dose, which effectually answered the 

 purpose. 



The following scientific description of the distemper 

 and its mode of treatment, cannot fail to be highly inter- 

 esting : 



" A little black spaniel, six months old, very fat and 

 playftd, gradually became listless and irritable ; his eyes 

 suffiised with water, his drooping ears, tenesmus, rough 

 coat, dyspnoea, and frequent cough, announced that the 

 disease called the Distemper was at hand. In this state 

 he ran about for several days, when the difficulty of 

 breathing increased. His flanks beat violently, and he 

 shewed signs of feeling great pain when his sides were 

 pressed upon. Soon after he became slightly convulsed, 

 and by his continual and melancholy cry, both day and 

 night, proved that he was suffering from severe bodily 

 pahi. The convulsions increased and became incessant ; 

 his debility and emaciation were daily more apparent, 

 and at the expiration of three weeks he died. 



For four days before his death, he lay in a supine quiet 

 state, perfectly conscious of what was passing near him ; 

 and it was only a few hoiu-s previous to his dissolution, 

 that he became comatose, and perfectly insensible. Dur- 

 ing the whole period of his illness, there was no aber- 



