The Dog in Health and Disease: Comprising the Various Modes of Breaking and Using Him for Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Etc., and Including the Points Or Characteristics of Toy DogsLongmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1872 - 470 páginas |
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Página vii
... while in health , by means of appropriate food , exercise , and lodging . This division of the subject therefore embraces the entering and running of the grey- hound ; the breaking and working of shooting dogs ; PREFACE . vii.
... while in health , by means of appropriate food , exercise , and lodging . This division of the subject therefore embraces the entering and running of the grey- hound ; the breaking and working of shooting dogs ; PREFACE . vii.
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... MEANS OF ADMINISTERING THEM . Alteratives . Anodynes.- Antispasmodics.- Aperients.- Astringents.- Blisters.— Caustics . Charges .-- Cordials.- Diuretics.- Embrocations . - Emetics . - Expect- orants . - Fever Medicines . - Clysters ...
... MEANS OF ADMINISTERING THEM . Alteratives . Anodynes.- Antispasmodics.- Aperients.- Astringents.- Blisters.— Caustics . Charges .-- Cordials.- Diuretics.- Embrocations . - Emetics . - Expect- orants . - Fever Medicines . - Clysters ...
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... means of the hunting powers of this animal that man was enabled to support himself by pursuing the wild denizens of the forest ; for though now , with the aid of gunpowder , he can in great measure dispense with the services of his ...
... means of the hunting powers of this animal that man was enabled to support himself by pursuing the wild denizens of the forest ; for though now , with the aid of gunpowder , he can in great measure dispense with the services of his ...
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... means Greek ( Graius ) , while a third party understand it to mean great . But as there is a remarkable peculiarity in this breed con- nected with it , we need not , I think , go farther for the derivation . No other breed , I believe ...
... means Greek ( Graius ) , while a third party understand it to mean great . But as there is a remarkable peculiarity in this breed con- nected with it , we need not , I think , go farther for the derivation . No other breed , I believe ...
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... means contemptible , but kept in abeyance by disuse . The feet are remarkable for spreading on the snow , so as to prevent them from sinking into it , and to enable the dog to bound lightly over a surface which the moose sinks into at ...
... means contemptible , but kept in abeyance by disuse . The feet are remarkable for spreading on the snow , so as to prevent them from sinking into it , and to enable the dog to bound lightly over a surface which the moose sinks into at ...
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animal beat birds bitch blood bolus bone bowels bred breed bulldog calomel castor oil chiefly coat cold colour cough courage course courser covert cross described dhole disease dose drachms ears English setter exercise fawn feeding feet fever foxhound give given grains greyhound hair hare head Hence hounds hunting inches inflammation Irish setter Irish water spaniel jalap kennel kind known latter laudanum legs liver mastiff meal milk muscles muzzle nature nearly nose oatmeal otterhound ounce owner Pastoral dogs peculiar pill pointers and setters present produce puppies reared remarkable remedy resembles retriever round Russian setter scent seldom shape shooter shooting silky skin slips sometimes southern hound Spanish pointer sport sportsman stake Stewards strong symptoms tail teeth terrier tion toy dog treatment turpentine water spaniel weather whelps Youatt
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