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warranted an application on my part for his 

 advice, in the case of a young animal of a 

 favourite breed, who had lost much of the use 

 of his nose, and of his faculties also, as is too 

 commonly the case under a high attack of that 

 cruel disorder, so destructive of the sportsman's 

 hopes, the distemper. The opinion of this gen- 

 tleman, from its duplicate claim on the score 

 of his experience in the nature of the case, and 

 his general professional skill, was with me 

 authoritative, and it ran as follows: 



R. Pulv. nitro-sulph. compos. 3jss. 



Plumb, conglom. p. p. Jj. 



Pulveri separatiin superimponatur plumbum in sclopeto 

 communi capiti applicand. 



Dein juxta foramen ad inium tubse eliciatur scintillula 

 m.s. et fiat explosio. 



