BITES
—frequently happen to sporting dogs as well as to horses, but much more frequently to the former, by poisonous insects that are, as well as many not known. Means of relief must of course be regulated by immediate appearances: in great inflammation, bleeding, and external emollients, are of good effect: in bites of the viper, its own fat liquified, and to be had at the medical shops as the "oil of vipers," is acknowledged a certain antidote.