HUNTING DIRECTORY. 79 



Sore Feet, &c. 



For the bite of another Dog. — See the article Wounds, 

 &c. page 76. 



Sore Feet. — Styptic tincture ; or, if this cannot be 

 procured, salt and water. 



For extracting Thorns. — Thorns may be generally 

 extracted with the thumb and fore-finger nails ; or re- 

 course may be had to the assistance of the pen-knife in 

 the same way as the sportsman would extract a thorn 

 from his own finger. The dog will frequently perform 

 the operation with his mouth. If the wound festers, the 

 thorn may be squeezed out. 



To bring Hair upon a scalded part. — Fresh hog's lard 

 rubbed frequently upon the affected part, will reproduce 

 hair ; indeed, I am inclined to think that animal fat in 

 general will have the desired effect. Fresh goose grease 

 or the fat of fowls, unmixed with salt, will answer the 

 purpose equally well. Vegetable oils are of too dry a 

 nature, and their effects, as applied to the growth of 

 hair, pernicious. Yet there are not wanting quacks who 

 daily advertise the sale of oil for the growth of hair on 

 the human head ; and by way of the strongest possible 

 recommendation, specifically state, that it is extracted 

 from vegetables ! This is lamentable ; but it is still more 

 so, that such numbers of the unthinking become the 

 dupes of these ignorant pretenders, whose existence is a 

 stigma on the liberality of the public. 

 To destroy Fleas, Lice, ^'-c. 



Take of white arsenic, one dram 

 water, one gallon 

 soft soap, one quarter of a pound 



boil for ten minutes ; then take it off the fire and let it 



