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have been the termination, but for the remedies applied. 

 The sj-stem pursued has been a combination of a great many 

 various receipts, adapted to each peculiar case ; and through 

 the very severe cases that this year have depopulated my 

 kennel, I have been under great obligations to a very 

 talented medical man, whose advice I ever found of great 

 service, and whose professional knowledge enabled him so to 

 vary the quantities and forms of the medicines as best to 

 overcome some particular form or other. Every keeper or 

 sportsman has, or professes to have, some never-failing nos- 

 trum or other. Believe me, this is all stuff There have 

 been, are, and ever will be, cases incurable ; but I will ven- 

 ture to say, that ninety-nine out of a hundred who know 

 anything of the subject will admit that these remedies 

 contain some one or more of the following medicines, all of 

 which are of value : — ^Epsom Salts, Calomelj Jalap, Tartar 

 Emetic, as purgatives or vomits ; Antimony, Nitre, James' 

 Powder, Ipecacuanha, as sudorifics, diaphoretics, or febrifuges. 

 From these medicines, the most used, it is evident to see what 

 tendency the course of treatment is designed to have, and 

 when it fails, extra means must be employed till that is 

 effected. Here it is that study, practice, and an intimate 

 knowledge of medicines and their combinations prove of 

 great advantage. At this stage more dogs are lost for want 

 of knowledge what next to do than in any other way ; for 

 they are either getting worse or better, never standing stillj 

 and each day's illness tells much against the recovery, from 

 the great emaciation ami weakness which commences from 

 the first, and keeps increasing daily. Never was there a 



