'^J THE sportsman's VADE MECUM. 



Water-proofing for Gun Locks. — Make a saturated solution 

 of Naphtha and India rubber. Add to this three times the 

 quantity of Copal Varnish. Apply with a fine, small brush 

 Along the edges of the lock and stock. 



DISTEMPER. 



How best to convey to my readers a clear, and at the 

 same time succinct account of this disease, has much troubled 

 me. This is now the third attempt made to set before my 

 brother sportsmen, who have had little or no experience, 

 in the plainest terms, the symptoms and features of the 

 disease, as well as the best remedies to be applied to its 

 various stages and ever varying types. After considerable 

 doubts on the subject, I fancy that by setting before you a 

 series of cases which have come under my own treatment, 

 the pecuRar features of each case, the remedies prescribed, 

 and the termination, whether fatal or otherwise, I shall 

 best serve the interests of my readers. I beg expressly to 

 state, that with one or two exceptions — ^the cases of the 

 older dogs — of which I write from recollection, after a 

 lapse of several years, and consequently cannot be so positive 

 about, the others have all recently passed through my hands, 

 and the course of treatment, &c., has been especially noted, 

 and here recorded with minute exactness. The range of 

 cases are, I believe, sufficiently numerous to meet any form 

 and stage of the disease, from the most simple to the most 

 complicated and fatal. With the sole exception of chorea 

 or paralysis, a case of which I have never fairly seen 

 through, one or two cases are noted, in which this would 



