[ Mayhew / Dogs: Their Management ]
Edward Mayhew (1813? - 1868) was an English veterinarian and writer/editor on animal and sporting topics.
The full title of this work is Dogs: Their Management. Being a new plan of treating the animal, based upon a consideration of his natural temperament. First published in 1854 in London by George Routledge, it was republished in 1858, then again in 1906 with editing by A. J. Sewell.
Mayhew (1813? - 1868) was an English veterinarian, and this book deals only with the "management" and treatment of canine disease. Newfoundlands are mentioned six times, but only in general comments indicating their large size (and how that size requires larger doses of medicine, primarily; on example is that four pounds of castor oil are required to treat a Newf for lice, whereas a "moderate sized dog with a long coat" will require only one); there is no discussion of appearance, temperament, behavior, trainability, etc. Mayhew's book may be read here at The Hathi Trust.
A review of Mayhew's book — actually a joint review of Mayhew's Dogs: Their Management and another book, The Treatment of Our Domesticated Dogs by "Magenta" (Maurice Hartland Mahon) — appears in the Sporting Magazine in 1868; the review's only mention of Newfoundlands comes in a discussion of bathing dogs, in which the use of egg yolks is recommended by Mayhew: "a small dog will require the yolk of one egg, and a Newfoundland the yolks of a dozen; this rather expensive process gives lustre to the coat...." (229). Although in Mayhew's original, the much more charming "yelks" is used instead of "yolks."