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last few years been suggested, which I have known succeed in many 

 cases. It consists of a red herring, into which has been rubbed 

 a mixture of two drachms of nitre and one drachm of camphor. 

 This should be given two or three times a week till the disease is 

 cured. The dog should be starved till he will eat the herring, 

 but if there is much reluctance shown to it, the nitre may be 

 dissolved in his water, and the camphor only rubbed into the 

 herring. The remedy has been successful in so many cases, that 

 there can be no doubt of its potency, though, of course, like 

 almost all others, it cannot be relied on as a certain and specific 

 cure for this intractable disease. 



CHRONIC RHEUMATISM attacks the loins and thighs, and also the 

 muscles of the abdomen; but these affections have received no 

 separate names in canine pathology. The same treatment as for 

 kennel-lameness is equally efficacious in the early stage, and 

 equally useless after the lapse of time which is too frequently 

 allowed by the kennel-man before he acquaints his master with 

 the extent of the mischief. I have already alluded to the common 

 idea that this affection ends in palsy, and to my disbelief in the 

 truth of the supposition. It is entirely contrary to analogical 

 reasoning, and is opposed to my practical experience. Among 

 the numerous cases which I have seen, of what has been described 

 to me as palsy, coming on after rheumatism, I have never seen 

 one which could be considered as anything more than the loss of 

 power which results from the wasting of the muscular fibre in 

 consequence of rheumatism. I have certainly seen palsy arising 

 from inflammation of the spinal marrow in a rheumatic dog, but 



