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still, to deeply cauterise with a hot iron or a powerful caustic. 
No other efficacious remedies are known, notwithstanding all 
that has been said by the inventors of pretended sovereign 
remedies. 
In 1868 the public journals made a noise about a draught 
concocted from certain valueless plants ; this, however, was a per- 
Fig. 159. — Land Spaniels. 
fectly ridiculous remedy, resuscitated from the obsolete medical 
budget of some old woman, and had nothing in its favour to merit 
public attention save that it had been extolled by a prominent 
man of the period, M. de Saint-Paul, General Secretary to the 
Minister of the Interior. 
It could not be said of this remedy, that “if it did no good at 
any rate it could do no harm.” On the contrary, it might have 
