o speak.

But before I treat of the keeping your Hounds in Health by curing their
diseases, I must speak a Word or two of the way to _Breed good Whelps_,
viz. Having a Hound and a Bratch of that general Goodness in Size,
Voice, Speed, Scent, and Proportion you like, put them together to
ingender in _January_, _February_, or _March_, as the properest Months
for Hounds, Bitches, and Bratches to be Limed in; because of not _losing
time_ to enter them. When you put them together, observe, as near as you
can, if the _Moon_ be in _Aquarius_ or _Gemini_; because the Whelps will
then never run Mad, and the Litter, will be double as many Dog, as
Bitch, Whelps. When your Bitch is near her _Whelping_, separate her from
the other Hounds, and make her a Kennel particularly by her self; and
see her Kennell'd every Night, that she might be acquainted and
delighted with it, and so not seek out unwholsom Places; for if you
remove the Whelps after they are Whelp'd, the Bitch will carry them up
and down till she come to their first Place of Littering; and that's
very dangerous. Suffer not your Whelps to Suck above two Months, and
then _Weane_ them.

When your Whelps are brought up, _enter_ them not into Hunting till they
are at least a Year and half old: That is, if whelpt in _March_, enter
them _September_ come Twelve-Month; if in _April_, in _October_ come
Twelve-months after, _&c._

When you would _enter_ them, bring them abroad, with the most Staunch
and best Hunting Hounds; (all babling and flying Curs being left at
home:) and a _Hare being the best entering Chase_, get your _Hare_ ready
before, and putting her from her Form, view which way she takes, and
then lay on your Hounds, giving them all the Advantages may be; if she
is caught, do not suffer them to break her, but immediately taking her,
strip off her Skin, and cutting her to peices, give every part to your
young Whelps; and that will beget in them a Delight in Hunting, and
animate them with Courage. And now let us return to speak of

_Diseases incident to Dogs, and their Cures._

Because I should think it a very odd Humor for a Person to select these
Creatures (Hounds) as instruments for the procurement of his Health
Satisfaction, and Delight, and should be so inhumane as to suffer them
to perish in their _Diseases_, because they cannot communicate their
_Ailings_, and beseech _Redress_; therefore I have briefly summed up the
immediate _Cures_ for their several Diseas