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MISCELLANEA. 
purpose. There could be no objection to respectable lodging- 
houses, provided the persons keeping them would guarantee the 
observance of regular hours, instead of furnishing the student 
with a key of the street-door to enter at any hour of the night. 
There are many respectable practitioners who receive pupils into 
their houses, and teachers as well. Do not imagine that I wish 
to deprive the medical student of his liberty altogether. I am 
only desirous of drawing the attention of parents and lecturers 
to the fact, that for want of a little wholesome controul, the 
student, upon his arrival in town, is too often driven into that 
society which gives him, at least, a disrelish for study, and some- 
times renders him totally unfit for his new occupation. I am, 
Sir, your obedient servant, 
Medicus. 
This letter is as intimately connected with the comfort and 
weJfare'of the veterinarian as the medical student, and we thank- 
fully extract it from the valuable periodical to which it was sent. 
A Disease among Dogs in India, and Professional 
Analogical Advice for ditto. 
The hot weather commences most gloriously in April, and 
from that time to the end of the rains (October), that cursed 
pest to the canine species, i.e. the dll-i-baz , or palpitation of the 
heart, attacks indiscriminately old and young, and generally 
levels four-fifths of the pack. The disease is peculiar, I believe, 
to this country; it comes on, for the most part, suddenly: a dog 
will appear in good health and spirits one day, and the next he 
is found sleepy, dispirited, and feverish, and, in short, in a fair 
way to Davy’s locker. The hard and rapid beating of the heart 
is a peculiar feature of the complaint, although that organ is not 
always affected locally, for in one instance the liver was found 
to be dreadfully inflamed ; in another, the lungs ; and in a third, 
the intestines. Copious bleeding in the early stages has been 
found the most effectual remedy ; but a dog once attacked, seldom 
lifts his head again. Every kind of medicine has been tried, 
and every exertion used, but hitherto without avail ; and it is 
truly disheartening to a sportsman to witness his best hounds 
sinking before him, without having it in his power to save them. 
The subject is a melancholy one, and it only remains for me to 
beg, that any of your readers who may be skilled in the veteri- 
nary art will endeavour to help us out of our predicament. 
Your’s sincerely, 
Cawnpoor, Mar. 10, 1833. Vagus. 
New Sporting Magazine , Nov. 1833, p. 33. 
