Camphor 1 to 2 dr.
To be rubbed into a powder by means of a few drops of spirit of wine.
Oil of aniseed 12 to 15 drops.
To this mix gradually from 12 oz. to a pint of the simple emulsion.
Nitrate of potash and tincture of opium are added in irritability of the
bladder.—_White._
ENTER, _v._ To initiate in a business, method, or society.
_To enter hounds._—The first thing to be attended to in young dogs of
all kinds is to make them understand their name well, and answer to it,
before training; for which they should be rewarded and caressed. After
foxhounds have learned to follow freely, they should be coupled, and led
out among sheep, deer, &c., and made to understand that such is not
their game; but two dogs should never be coupled together, as they are
sure to quarrel. A few at a time should be let loose amongst sheep, and
if they attempt to run after them, should be severely chastised, and the
cry of _ware sheep_ be often repeated to them; which cry will,
generally, on future occasions, have the effect of stopping them from
sheep-running, without the necessity of using the whip. Great care is
necessary at the offset to prevent them from worrying a sheep, which
they will sometimes do under the management of careless trainers; for if
they be allowed to taste the blood, it will be very difficult afterwards
to break them from this bad habit.
Young hounds should be often walked about the courts of the kennel,
followed by the whipper in, who should rate them after the huntsman.
They should also be frequently taken out with people on foot, which
teaches them to be more tractable and attentive, and much more
manageable. It is better to take them out to their walks in a country
where they are to be hunted, as the sooner they acquire a knowledge of
it the better; and when they are thrown out, or left behind, are more
likely to find their way home.
In entering fox-hounds it should always be at their own game; although
some are foolish enough to begin them with hares, which just requires a
second training to break them from that pursuit. Nothing is so good for
rendering young hounds obedient as walking them frequently out amongst
sheep, hares, and deer, and restraining their pursuit of these animals.
This probation will teach them to be steady. A fox-cub should then be
turned out before them, in the company of some old hounds as leaders,
which train them in a short time instinctively, as it were, to hunt
themselves. After they have tasted blood, it will be more difficult to
repress their ardour than to excite it. Every means of encouraging them
should be used in the earlier stages of their training, and punishment
only administered after they have made some progress. In flogging a
hound for a fault, the whipper-in should use his voice at the same time;
this teaches him to know for what he is beaten; and Mr. Daniel suggests
the propriety of introducing a live hare into the kennel, and to flog
the dogs soundly whenever they attempt to approach her.
_To enter Hawks._—While the hawk is _waiting on_ at a proper height, his
head being turned inwards, a partridge tied to a creance is to be thrown
up; and when the hawk has taken it, he must be allowed to eat it on the
ground near the falconer, who is to walk round him, and whistle to him
as usual.
When this lesson has been repeated three or four times, by throwing up
partridges not confined by the creance, the education of the eyess may
be considered as completed; and he may be taken into the field to be
used in the way that I shall endeavour to describe; but it will be
necessary to give him every advantage in his first flights, and to have
a live partridge in the bag, ready to be thrown up to him, should he
fail in his first attempts to take his game.
I have now described the mode of breaking eyesses, as practised by the
falconers; but I am of opinion that it might be better done, and with
infinitely less trouble, by using the young hawk, when flying at hack,
to feed always on the lure.
He would soon learn to fly to it, when swung round in the air, and would
thus be taught to wait on.
The falconer should kneel down to the hawk, when he is feeding on the
lure, and give him meat from the hand, by which means he may not only be
made tame, but may be prevented from carrying.
When the season for hawking is at hand, a few live partridges should be
thrown up to him, and he should be allowed to eat them near the
falconer.
I have no doubt but by this treatment a young hawk would be fit for use
as soon as he was taken up, and that nothing more would be required than
to accustom him to _stand to the hood_.—_Brown_—_Sebright._
ENTERING, _s._ Entrance, passage into a place.
ENTIRE, _a._ Whole, undivided; complete in its parts. ENTIRE HORSE:
a stallion.
E O, _s._ A game.
An E O table is circular in form, but of no exact dimensions, though in
general about four feet in diameter. The extreme circumference is a kind
of counter or depôt for the stakes, marked all round with the letters E
and O; on which each adventurer places money according to his
inclination. The interior part of the table consists first, of a kind of
gallery, or rolling-place, for the ball, which, with the outward parts,
above called depôt or counter, is stationary or fixed. The most interior
part moves upon an axis, or pivot, and is turned about with handles,
while the ball is set in motion round the gallery. This part is
generally divided into forty niches or interstices, twenty of which are
marked with the letter E, and the other twenty with the letter O. The
lodging of the ball in any of the niches, distinguished by those
letters, determines the wager. The proprietors of the tables have two
bar holes, and are obliged to take all bets offered either for E or O;
but if the ball fall into either of the bar holes, they win all the bets
upon the opposite letter, and do not pay to that in which it falls; an
advantage in the proportion of two to forty, or five per cent in their
favour.—_Hoyle._
EPHEMERA, _s._ An insect that lives only one day.
EPIDEMIC, _s._ That which falls at once upon great numbers of
people, as a plague; generally prevailing, affecting great
numbers of men or animals.
EPILEPSY, _s._ A convulsive motion of the whole body, or some of its
parts, with a loss of sense. _Vide_ BLAINE, WHITE, PERCIVALL.
EQUERRY, _s._ Master of the horse.
EQUESTRIAN, _a._ Appearing on horseback; skilled in horsemanship;
belonging to a horse.
EQUIPAGE, _s._ Furniture for a horseman; carriage, vehicle;
attendance, retinue; accoutrements, furniture.
EQUIPOISE, _s._ Equality of weight, equilibration.
ERGOT, _s._ A sort of stub, like a piece of horn, placed behind and
below the pastern joint.
ERRHINES, _s._ Powders which cause sneezing, by being blown up the
nostrils. They are composed generally of hellebore, snuff,
asarabacca, or turbith mineral.
ERYSIPELAS, _s._ An eruption of a hot acrid humour.
ESCHAR, _s._ A hard crust or scar made by hot applications.
ESCHAROTIC, _a._ Caustic, having the power to sear or burn the
flesh.
Escharotics are generally in the form of powder. Such are nitric oxide
of mercury (red precipitate), exsiccated sulphate of alumine (burnt
alum), acetate of copper (crystallised verdigris), sulphate of copper
(blue vitriol). These are applied, either separately, or two or more of
them are mixed together, and finely powdered; sometimes they are mixed
with bole armeniac or chalk, by which they are rendered milder, or with
lard or digestive ointment.