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and given every two hours; the dog should be kept very 
warm during its operation, and should be supplied fre¬ 
quently with new milk or water-gruel. If this medicine 
occasions sickness, or brings on great laxity in the bowels, 
the doses must be temporarily stopped, or greatly diminished. 
The above dose is sufficient for a pointer, fox-hound, 
harrier, or other large dog of ten months old. If younger 
or a smaller dog, the quantities must be proportionally 
diminished. 
Mr. Shaw, principal gamekeeper to his grace the Duke of 
Buccleugh, at Dalkeith, has generally found the distemper 
easily disposed of by attending to the first symptoms of the 
disease, and immediately administering a dose of calome* 
and jalap every second day, and paying strict attention to 
the food of the patient. He seldom found it necessary to 
give more than three doses. He has, however, remarked, 
that when the disease begins with a fiux, it generally proves 
fatal. This discharge is brought on by cold, and by sleep¬ 
ing in damp quarters. He mentions having lost several 
brace of greyhounds from one night’s bad lodging. 
Mr. Daniel is of opinion that Blaine’s medicine is an 
effectual remedy : it is made up in packets, marked with 
different numbers, 1, 2, and 3. For a Newfoundland dog, 
mastiff, pointer, and setter, No. 1 should be used; for fox¬ 
hounds, harriers, and other dogs of a middling size, use 
No. 2; and for cockers, and all other varieties, No. 3 will 
prove a sufficient dose. He found that soon after adminis¬ 
tering Blaine’s powders, even although the disease had got 
to a height, the violence of the symptoms abated, the 
spasms became less frequent, and generally within twenty- 
four hours they completely subsided, leaving only a slight 
discharge from the nose. Our own experience completely 
coincides with that of Mr. Daniel, although in some im 
