86 MODERN FARRIER. 



A modern writer says that, 'the signs of the 

 jaundice in horses are, a dusky yellowness of the 

 eye, the inside of the mouth, and lips ; the tongue 

 and bars of the roof of the mouth also look yellow. 

 But it is necessary to distinguish between the yel- 

 lowness of the jaundice, and that yellowness of the 

 mouth and eyes, which sometimes happens on the 

 crisis of an inflammatory fever, where the inflamed 

 parts look yellow when the fever and inflammation 

 are going off. 



* When this happens after a fever, the horse ge- 

 nerally recovers his appetite, and looks lively, and 

 the fever leaves him, and the yellowness soon after 

 wears off. 



' But in the jaundice, the yellowness is one of the 

 first symptoms, and generally appears in the begin- 

 ning of the complaint. The horse is dull, and re- 

 fuses all manner of food, and the fever begins slowly ; 

 yet both that and the yellowness soon increases, and 

 proceed together. In the decline of an inflamma- 

 tory fever, a horse dungs and stales freely. In the 

 jaundice, the dung is generally hard and dry, and of 

 a pale colour, nearly white. The urine is commonly 

 of a dark dirty brown colour, and when it has set- 

 tled some time on the pavement, it looks red like 

 blood. He also stales with some pain and difficulty ; 

 and if the disease be not soon checked, all the symp- 

 toms will increase very rapidly.' 



Causes. — This disease generally proceeds from 

 some affection of the liver. Sometimes it is occa- 

 sioned by high feeding, costiveness, or a suppression 

 of the perspiration from cold. In young horses, the 

 disorder is seldom dangerous ; but in old horses, a 

 complete cure is seldom effected, as in such cases it 

 usually proceeds from a diseased state of the liver. 



Cure. — Experienced veterinary surgeons differ in 

 their opinions of the proper mode of cure in this 

 disease. Some advise bleeding in the first stage of 

 the disorder, if it be accompanied by fever; and 



