658 cultivation of the canine brain. 
cerned, and the flow of blood greater. The palate veins, which 
run on both sides of the roof of the mouth, should also be opened, 
by making two incisions, one on each side of the palate, about 
half way between the centre of the roof of the mouth and the 
teeth. 
The head should be kept cold by tying round it a piece of 
cloth, and frequently wetting it. 
Should this treatment not prove sufficiently effective, although 
the bowels might be opened I would attempt blistering on the 
back of the neck, and would give internally powdered hellebore* 
in two-grain doses, two or three times a-day, until the animal was 
nauseated, which would be known by its “ slavering” at the 
mouth. The effect of nausea on the animal system is the re- 
ducing of arterial action, or, perhaps, in more comprehensive 
words, lessening the power of the circulation. The principle of 
this treatment throughout will be the reduction of excessive vas- 
cular action, either by depletion, blood-letting, purging, counter- 
irritation, or nausea, or by all conjointly, and on this principle 
only can disease be scientifically and successfully combatted. 
Farmers’ Magazine. 
CULTIVATION OF THE CANINE BRAIN. 
A short time since, in an adjoining street to Hanover-square, 
an exhibition of a highly interesting nature took place, which is 
worthy to be put on record. The writer having learned that a 
French gentleman (M. Leonard), who had for some time been 
engaged in instructing two dogs in various performances which 
required the exercise, not merely of the natural instincts of the 
animal and the power of imitation, but of a higher degree of 
judgment and reflection than is commonly developed in the dog, 
was residing in London, obtained an introduction, and was 
obligingly favoured by M. Leonard with permission to hold a 
conversazione with his extraordinary pupils. 
Two fine dogs, of the Spanish race, were introduced by M. 
* Hellebore is generally used by pig-doctors for pegging their patients 
in a variety of complaints. I consider that the good which frequently results 
from this mode of treatment is to be attributed more to the nausea which 
it causes, by being absorbed into the system, than to the local irritation which 
it produces, 
