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Remedy. — Purgatives, salines, ammonia chloride. Ac- 

 onite for fever. Ipecac. Foment and stimulate over liver. 

 Digestible, laxative food. Exercise after relief of acute 

 symptoms. Nitro-hydrochloric acid in chronic cases. Sa- 

 lines and careful dietary safer than more active remedies 

 when the inflammation or congestion is associated with 

 epizootic or other disease. For doses, see pages 13 to 29. 



Congestion of the Liver. — Robertson describes three 

 kinds — the passive, the active, and the biliary. These, 

 which may be the result of lung or heart disease, sudden 

 chills, specific fevers, blood contamination, too much or 

 improper food, lack of exercise, &c, seem to be preludes 

 to inflammation of the liver. 



Robertson also describes i Scirrhosis of the Liver/ a 

 chronic or subacute inflammation of the interconnective 

 liver tissue ; i Fatty Liver/ ' Albuminoid or Lardaceous 

 (lard or wax) Liver/ &c. 



Liver Concretions. — Rigot found 90 concretions in 

 the bile ducts of a liver. The cavities were enlarged and 

 their walls thickened, but there were no indications of 

 liver disease during life. The same horse had a salivary 

 calculus (stone). 



Hydatid Tumors of the Liver are rare. They are 

 bladder-like, and vary in size from a hazel-nut to an or- 

 ange, containing a clear fluid and numerous organisms 

 (mites). They cause very little if any disturbance. 



Rupture of the Liver is caused by external violence, 

 overdistention with blood or bile, &c. Fatal. 



JAUNDICE OR YELLOWS (ICTERUS). 



Is a symptom of disease rather than disease itself. It 

 is usually attributed to either deranged bile secretion or 

 bile distribution. When the bile is taken into the blood 



