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silence for one hour, and at the expiration of that time 
the dose is to be repeated. This treatment is to be 
repeated ad infinitum, until the creature coils itself up 
and prepares to go to sleep, when one more injection is to be 
given, and the animal left to itself to recover at its leisure. 
This treatment Mr. Mayhew declares to be absolute 
and almost unfailing, and although I have never tried it, I 
have no doubt of its merit. 
With this I shall pass from the kennel to the field 
management of dogs, and the various species of game, in 
pursuit of which they are employed, only advising all 
persons of mature experience, who determine, or who are 
compelled by necessity to act as veterinarians to their own 
dogs, to use Mayhew in preference to all other authorities. 
He is clearly the most scientific, the mildest and the most 
simple in his treatment, of all who have written on the 
subject. All those, who are not maturely experienced, I 
recommend to take the best advice they can get, as medi- 
cal men say pro re natd; and above all things to avoid 
bleeding, and dabbling in energetic remedies and specific 
nostrums, recommended by grooms, dogbreakers, and old, 
knowing hands, which in ninety-nine cases out of the hun- 
dred will but make bad worse, and will probably kill ten 
where they will cure one patient. 
