The Dog

The Dog

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Title: The Dog A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, a combination
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Author: William Youatt
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[Illustration: THE SOUTHERN HOUND.]
THE DOG,

BY WILLIAM YOUATT.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

[Illustration: HEAD OF BLOODHOUND]

EDITED, WITH ADDITIONS,
BY E. J. LEWIS, M.D.
Member of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia; of the
Philadelphia Medical Society; of the Parisian Medical Society, &c. &c.

1852.
Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by
LEA AND BLANCHARD,
in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
THE SOUTHERN HOUND HEAD OF BLOODHOUND ANCIENT
SCULPTURE OF GREYHOUNDS THE THIBET DOG THE DINGO,
OR NEW HOLLAND DOG THE HARE INDIAN DOG THE
DANISH, OR DALMATIAN DOG THE GREYHOUND THE
GRECIAN GREYHOUND BLENHEIMS AND COCKERS THE
WATER SPANIEL THE POODLE THE ALPINE SPANIEL, OR
BERNARDINE DOG THE NEWFOUNDLAND DOG THE
ESQUIMAUX DOG THE ENGLISH SHEEP DOG THE SCOTCH
SHEEP DOG THE BEAGLE THE HARRIER THE FOX HOUND
PLAN OF GOODWOOD KENNEL THE SETTER THE POINTER
THE BULL-DOG THE MASTIFF THE SCOTCH TERRIER
SKELETON OF THE DOG DOG'S HEAD CONFINED FOR AN
OPERATION DOG'S EYE PREPARED FOR AN OPERATION
TEETH OF THE DOG AT SEVEN DIFFERENT AGES

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PREFACE OF THE EDITOR.
The Editor, having been called upon by the American publishers of the

present volume to see it through the press, and add such matter as he
deemed likely to increase its value to the sportsman and the lover of
dogs in this country, the more readily consented to undertake the task,
as he had previously, during the intervals of leisure left by professional
avocations, paid much attention to the diseases, breeding, rearing, and
peculiarities of the canine race, with a view to the preparation of a
volume on the subject.
His design, however, being in a great measure superseded by the
enlarged and valuable treatise of Mr. Youatt, whose name is a full
guarantee as to the value of whatever he may give to the world, he
found that not much remained to be added. Such points, however, as he
thought might be improved, and such matter as appeared necessary to
adapt the volume more especially to the wants of this country, he has
introduced in the course of its pages. These additions, amounting to
about sixty pages, will be found between brackets, with the initial of
the Editor appended. He trusts they will not detract from the interest of
the volume, while he hopes that its usefulness may be thereby
somewhat increased.
With this explanation of his connexion with the work, he leaves it in
the hope that it may prove of value to the sportsman from its immediate
relation to his stirring pursuits; to the general reader, from the large
amount of curious information collected in its pages, which is almost
inaccessible in any other form; and to the medical student, from the
light it sheds on the pathology and diseases of the dog, by which he
will be surprised to learn how many ills that animal shares in common
with the human race.
The editor will be satisfied with his agency in the publication of this
volume, if it should be productive of a more extended love for this
brave, devoted, and sagacious animal, and be the means of improving
his lot of faithful servitude. It is with these views that the editor has
occasionally turned from more immediate engagements to investigate