Macaulay was a great scene painter, who neglected delicate truths of detail for exaggerated distemper effects.

Remember, my friend, that bleeding and drinking warm water are the two grand principlesthe true secret of curing all the distempers incident to humanity.

Our chief difficulty in the treatment of distemper lies in the complications thereof.

"There are worse parents than Pippo, for he who lives by making others laugh deserves well of men, whereas there is your medico, who eats the bread of colics, and rheumatisms, and other foul diseases, of which he pretends to be the enemy, though, San Gennaro to aid!who is there so silly, as not to see that the knavish doctor and the knavish distemper play into each others hands, as readily as Policinello and the monkey.

Once over distemper troublesand the breed certainly does suffer badly if it contracts the diseasethe Borzoi is as hardy as most breeds, if not hardier.