DISEASE AMONG THE EAST-LOTHIAN FOXHOUNDS. 95 
advice being required, Professor Dick should have been 
consulted. 
Professor Pick stated that he was unable, from a previous 
engagement, to visit the hounds until Thursday, the 25th of 
September, 'when, to use his own words, he found almost 
the whole pack in a state of prostration; exhaustion having 
succeeded the primary violent evacuations from the stomach 
and bowels, and general convulsions.’^ He prescribed ano¬ 
dyne treatment, along with restoratives, and friction, and 
fomentations. On examination of the viscera of several of the 
dogs which had died, he found that the internal or lining 
membrane of the stomach was highly inflamed, as well as 
that of the intestines, &c., and the extensor muscles of the 
legs in a rigid condition; the intestinal coats appeared in a 
state approaching mortification.” The Professor, desirous of 
obtaining information as to the progressive development of 
the symptoms, and of receiving the fullest particulars as to 
their alleged cause and origin, addressed two letters, contain¬ 
ing a number of important interrogations, to the huntsman 
and Sir David Baird, the latter of whom, not being at all 
well,” requested his friend Captain Kinloch to write in reply; 
and the following is a brief abstract of the valuable informa¬ 
tion from these two sources — the most unexceptionable 
authorities on the subject—from their long personal connec¬ 
tion with the pack. Mr. Atkinson in his reply states 1 
fed the hounds on Sunday the 21st of September at half¬ 
past nine in the morning, and they fed as well as usual. At 
four in the afternoon 1 was walking them out on the grass, 
and three of the hounds I saw were very unwell; one of them 
in particular was lying on his belly, with his legs stretched 
out quite stiff. I was up at five o’clock on Wednesday 
morning (a typographical error in place of on Monday morn¬ 
ing, as in the MS.), and when I went into the kennel not one 
of the hounds could move—all were convulsed and twitching 
—not one could touch food that day.” The first bitch died 
at three o’clock in the afternoon” (that is, Monday), the 
second at half-past four.” Captain Kinloch answered the 
Professor’s questions seriatim^ as follows:—The hounds 
must have left their kennel soon after four a.m. on the Satur¬ 
day morning (the 20th of September). They were thrown 
into covert at six a.m., and were hard at icork till one p.m. 
They did not get home before three p.m. They were not fed 
till they had been home for an hour and a half. Their food 
was the customary porridge and gruel (not milk, as is printed), 
icith some flesh added; the porridge or puddings being made 
half of oatmeal and half of Indian corn. They w’ere quite 
