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for instance,) down the throat, with an instrument adapted 
for the purpose; and if I found it impossible to get it 
down, I would inject it into the bowels, when a suffi- 
cient quantity would be taken up by the absorbents, to 
sustain life till the disease of the glands abated. In the 
first place, I should feel a disposition to bleed the afflicted 
animal, as this would prevent any super-abundant pressure 
of blood upon the parts affected, which I might perhaps rub 
well with mercurial ointment. 
It is a lamentable fact, that so little attention has been 
paid to the diseases of this invaluable animal, though mo 
creature which has yet been taken under human protection 
affords so good an opportunity for observation, or is so 
much entitled to the assistance and kind offices of its mas- 
ter. The Dog has become a domestic of the most familiar 
description, whose greatest delight is in administering to 
the pleasures of the sportsman, or those by whom his ser- 
vices are called into action; his civilization may be said to 
proceed in the precise ratio with that of human nature, and 
he uniformly takes his tone from the circumstance or the 
situation of his master. As he has closely associated him- 
self with man, therefore, he has brought upon himself a 
train of diseases, resulting from his artificial mode of life; 
and from which, in a state of nature, there is little doubt, 
but he is altogether exempt. In fact, living under the same 
roof, and in the same manner, as his master, he seems to 
be afflicted something in the same way; and, upon close 
examination, it will be found, that many of his disorders 
bear a strong resemblance to those in man, and would, I 
have little doubt, give way to a somewhat similar treatment. 
Thus circumstanced, it seems unaccountable that the medi- 
cal treatment of this faithful creature should have been so 
neglected. Generally speaking, whenever a Dog is attack- 
ed with any disease, little trouble is taken in his recovery; 
food is offered him, and if he is able to eat it and recovers, 
it is all right; but it very frequently happens, that the mo- 
ment he exhibits symptoms of indisposition, he is suspected 
of hydrophobia, and, without any attempts to alleviate his 
pains, he is placed in a situation of security, and either suf- 
fered to pine away, or is prematurely despatched. This 
may not apply altogether to sportsmen, perhaps; though 
many of these, I have not the least doubt, pay but little 
attention to the matter. — Johnson’s Shooter’s Companion . 
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. 
