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lock of wool, when feated on the tranfparent cornea. This is the

worst of the fuperficial ulcers, because it is apt to degenerate into one that is deep and fordid. When healed it leaves a thicker cicatrix behind it than the for

mer.

Deep ulcers are neither caufed by the opening of an abfcefs, or from other caufes. They are divided into three kinds: the firft is deep, narrow, and hard, and when it is feated on the tranfparent cornea, it does not change the colour, nor grow white after the cicatrization of the ulcer. When it affects the conjunctive, it is red on the edges, and blackish in the middle. The fecond is like the former, but larger. The third is a fordid ulcer, and the matter that runs from it is thick and of a bad quality.

It must be owned, the diftinction of thefe ulcers is not very material; for the nature of them will readily appear upon infpection, as well as their differences; their names being of little fignification.

The prognoftics of ulcers may be drawn from the difficulty there is in healing them; from the pain and inflammation that attends them, from the nature of the ulcerated parts, and the fymptoms that accompany them, fuch as the rupture of the cornea, the fungous flesh, the fiftula, and the nature of the cicatrices.

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adjacent parts, they are cleansed with great difficulty, and threaten the deftruction of the whole eye.

In curing an ulcer when it is fuperficial, ufe the following eyewater: Take three ounces of rofewater, and diffolve it in ten grains of gum-arabic: then add five grains of white vitriol, and the fame quantity of fugar of lead, and twenty grains of fugar-candy, make them warm, that they may diffolve the fooner.

Apply a few drops to the grieved parts ten or twelve times a day, and lay a comprefs over the eye, dipt in a mixture of rose water and the white of an egg beaten together. Or, instead of this, you may make it with the fame quantity of rofe-water, ten grains of camphire, and the fame quantity of white vitriol, with a fcruple of fugar-candy. The camphire must be rubbed with the fugar-candy, and the water poured thereon by little and little. But it will diffolve more intimately if it be ground with a third part of a blanched almond firft, and then add the fugarcandy.

The camphire, by the subtilty of its parts, makes its way into the coats of the eye, and attenuates the grofs matter; and by its balfamic qualities corrects the malignity of the humour. To be continued.

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particular, ulcers that occupy the Lift of STALLIONS to Cover the conjunctive are not fo dangerous as those that appear on the transparent cornea, much lefs on the pupil. Superficial uicers eafieft to heal, and deep ulcers are attended with the most dangerous coufequences. When a thin corrofive matter flows from an ulcer, which corrodes the

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The four following at Woburn, Bedfordshire. Dragon a logs, a mare, and 10s. 6d.

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Skyfcraper, at 55s. and 5s.
Mufti, at 5gs, and 5s.
Fidget, at 3gs, and 5s.

At Mr. White's farm, near London. Fortunio, 10gs, and 10s. 6d.

The four following at Bennington, near Stevenage, Herts. Javelin, by Eclipfe, 20gs, and 105, 6d.

Efcape, at logs, and ros. 6d. Toby, by Highflyer, at 2gs, and 5s.

Creeper, by Tandem, at 2gs, and 5s.

ON HUNTING.

LETTER XXV.

To the EDITORS of the SPORTING
MAGAZINE.

GENTLEMEN,

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be to over-run the fcent, and the fooner, in all probability, will they kill their game. I have a friend, who hunted his five days following, and affured me, that he had better sport with them the last day, than the first.

I remember to have heard, that a certain pack of fox-hounds, fince becom: famous, were many weeks from mixture of indifferent hounds bad management, and worse uck, without killing a fox. However, they killed one at laft, and ried to find another. They found him-and they lost him—and wre then, as you may well fuppoe, another month without kiling another fox. This was ill udged; they fhould have returne home immediately

When houds are much out of blood, fome men proceed in a method that auft neceffarily keep them fo: the hunt them every day; as if ting them out were a means to gie them ftrength and fpirit: this, however, proceeds uore from illnature and refentment, than fand judgment.

It is not te want of blood only, that is prejudicial to hounds; the tying long in vain to recover a oft fcent, no lefs contributes tomake them flack.

Have feized the prefent opportunity of tranfmitting my further obfervations on the blood neceffary for a pack of foxhounds, and the likelieft method of procuring it: and firft; let me advise you never to attempt to find a fox after one o'clock; you had better return home, and hunt again on the next day. Not that I, in general, approve of hunting two days following with the fame hounds: the trying fo many hours in vain, and the being kept fo long off their food, both contribute to make them flack, and nothing furely is more contrary to the true fpirit of fox-hunting; for fox-hounds, I have already faid, ought always to be above their work. This is another particular, in which hare-hunting and fox-hunting totally dif fer; for harriers cannot be hunt-likely to find, and are leaft likely ed too much, as long as they are to change. Ii: be a fmall coable to hunt at all. The flower ver, or furze-rake, and you can they go, the lefs likely they will

I would advfe you to adopt a different metod: and, fhould your hounds eer be in the state here defcribe, you will keep them fresh forthe first fine day; when, fuppofing them to be all pefectly fteady, I do not question that they will kll their fox.

When hound are in want of food, give them very advantage: go out early; choofe a good quiet morning; and throw off your hounds where they are

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70 keep the fox in, it is right to do it; for the fooner that you kill him, when you are in want of blood, the better for the hounds. When hounds are in want of blood, and you get a fox into a fmall cover, it must be your own fault if you do not kill him there: place your people properly, and he cannot get off again. will hear, perhaps, hat it is impoffible to head bacl a fox.-No animal is fo fhy; confequently, no animal is fo eafily headed back by thofe who uderftand it. When it is your intention to check a fox, your people muft keep at a little diftnce from the cover fide, nor fuld they be fparing of their voies; for, fince you cannot keep hin in, if he be determined to com out, Prevent him, if you can, fom being fo inclined. All kin of mobbing is allowable, whe hounds are out of blood; (yt, how many foxes owe their Ives to the too great eagerness of heir purfuers.) You may keep the fox in cover, or let him out, asyou think the hounds will mange him beft.

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Though I amfo great an advocate for blood as to judge it neceffary to a pac of fox-hounds, yet I by no meas approve of it fo far as it is foetimes carried. I have known thee young foxes chopped in a fure-brake in one day, without any fport; a wanton deftruction f foxes, fcarcely anfwering the prpofe of blood, fince that blooddoes hounds most good which is oft dearly earned. Such fportfme richly deferve blank days and without doubt, they often neet with them. Mobbing a fox, indeed, is only allowable when hounds are not likely to be a match for him without it. Cne would almost be inclined to tink blood as ne

ceffary to the men, as to the hounds, fince the best chace is flat, unless you kill the fox. When you afk a fox-hunter what fport he has had, and he replies it is good, I think the next quef tion generally is, did your hounds kill? If he fhould fay they did not, the converfation ends; but if, on the contrary, he tell you that they did, you then ask a hundred questions, and feldom are fatisfied, till he has related every particular of the chace.

Earths fhould be watched when there is fnow upon the ground, for foxes then will lie at earth. Those who are inclined to deftroy them, can track them in, and may dig them out.

Should your hounds be in want of blood, it will at that time, be eafy to dig one to turn out before them, when the weather breaks; but I feem to have forgotten a new doctrine which I lately heard, that blood is not neceffary to a pack of fox-hounds. If you alfo fhould have taken up that opinion, I have only to wifh, that the goodness of your hounds may prevent you from changing it, or from knowing how far it may be erroneous *.

The ill luck which fo frequently attends this diverfion, you have, no doubt, experienced, 'ere now. Ican affure you it has provoked me often, and has made even a parfon wear. It was but the other day, we experienced an extraordinary inftance of it. We found, at the fame inftant, a brace of foxes in the fame cover, and they both broke at the oppofite ends of it; the hounds foon got together,

* Those who can fuppofe the killing of a fox to be of no fervice to a pack of foxhounds, may suppose, perhaps, that it does them hurt. It is going but one step further.

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Experiments on Glandered Horfes.

and went off very well with one of them; yet, notwitstanding this, fuch was our ill luck, that, though the hunted fox took a circle of feveral miles, he, at laft, croffed the line of the other fox, the heel of which we hunted back to the cover, from whence we came it is true, we perceived that out fcent worsted, and were going to ftop the hounds; but the going off of a white frost deceived us alfo in that.

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Many a fox have I known loft, by running into houses and sta bles. It is not long fince my hounds loft one, when hunting in the New Forest. After having tried the country round, they had given him up, and were gotten home; when, in rode a farmer, full gallop, with news of the fox; he had found him, he faid, in his ftable, and had fhut him

in. The hounds returned; the

fox, however, ftood but a little while, as he was quite run up before.

Some years ago, my hounds running a fox acrofs an open country, in a thick fog, the fox fcarcely out of view, three of the leading hounds difappeared all of a fudden, and the whipper-in, luckily, was near enough to fee it happen. They fell into a dry well near an hundred feet deep: they and the fox remained there together till the next day; when, with the greateft difficulty, we got them all four out.

Another time, having run a fox a burst of an hour and quarter, the feverest I ever remember, the hounds, at laft, got up to him by the fide of a river, where he had ftaid for them. One hound feized him as he was fwimming acrofs, and they both went down together. The hound came up

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again, but the fox appeared no more. By means of a boat and a long pole, we got the fox out. Had he not been seen to fink, he would hardly have been tried for under water, and without doubt we fhould have wondered what had become of him.

Fearing I have already tired your patience, I fhall here take my leave, and am, Gentlemen,

Your obedient
Humble fervant,
ACASTUS.

EXPERIMENTS

on GLANDERED HORSES, made by the late M. SAINBEL, at the Veterinary School, at Lyons; extracted from the works of that ingenious Profeffor.

HE inhabitants of Lyons,"

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fays the author, "are obliged by law, to give information to the school, of all horfes affected with the glanders, in that city and the adjoining country; I had, confequently, daily opportunities of making new experiments; being at liberty either to kill or preferve the glandered horfes, for the instruction of the pupils. It would be unneceffary for me to relate minutely all the trials I made; but I fhall give an account of fome, which from their effects I more attentively obferved, the journals of which I have kept by me.

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Experiments on Glandered Horfes.

ift. They were bled at the jugular vein.

2dly. An injection was thrown up their noftrils, of lime-water, in which a fufficient quantity of wine vinegar and falt had been mixed.

3dly. Their common food was reduced one third, and they had white water to drink.

wine faturated with regulus of antimony.

On the 15th, one of the horfes evacuated tolerably well, and the other two very little.

On the 16th, I repeated the injection as above.

17th, The fame injection again. 18th, 19th, 20th, The injection again, and the bolus of kermes, The dif

4thly. To each was adminif-camphire, and honey. tered fix drams of kermes mine-charge was much diminished in ral, and three drams of camphire, made into a bolus with flour and honey. The fame injection as above was repeated twice a day.

The bolus was continued on the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th days.

On the 8th day, I caufed them to fwallow in two dofes (one in the morning fafting, and the other at night) a quart of red wine, faturated with regulus of antimony. One of the horfes began to purge on the 9th day, at 5 o'clock in the morning, and it was over by 3 o'clock in the afternoon; the fecond had frequent provocations without voiding at all; the third did not feem to be any way moved by the medicine. On the fame day they were injected with spirit of wine and water, in which copperas and gall-nuts had been infufed. On the 10th, the injection was repeated again. On the fame day, they took the bolus with kermes, camphire, and honey.

On the 11th, no medicine whatever was given.

On the 12th, the running at the nofe was fomewhat abated in all three; but the pituitary membrane appeared to be more inflamed; the bolus was given.

On the 13th, their food was reduced to half the quantity, the white water was given them in abundance, and an emollient clyfter adminiftered to each of them.

the first and fecond horfes; but ftill abundant in the third, through one of the noftrils only. The lymphatic glands were fill in the fame condition.

21st, 224, 23d, 24th, The bolus and injections were continued.

On inspection of the urine and dung, there was a ftrong indication of great heat in the blood; confequently, I fufpended the courfe of medicines, till the 30th day.

In the interval they had plenty of white water to drink.

On the 31ft, the urine and ftools appeared to be in a healthy, natural ftate.

32d, The bolus was continued. Injections were made with alum and white vitriol, mixed together over the fire, afterwards reduced to powder, and diffolved in limewater; to which was added a fufficient quantity of vinegar.

33d, 34th, The injection was repeated twice a day, and the bolus continued.

35th, The running disappeared in one of the horses.

40th, The running ceafed in the fecond. The bolus and injections were continued every other day only. The general treatment was continued with the third, to the 55th day. The running ceafed in him alfo after two months, from the first beginning. A ftop was now put to all medicines. The obftruction of the

On the 14th, the quart of red-glands was removed alfo in one

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