134 THE DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



instead of its natural channel — the alimentary canal — it 

 imparts a yellow tinge to the eyes, nose, mouth, skin, 

 urine, and sometimes the dung. The latter is sometimes 

 clay colored. Sometimes the bowels are deranged and 

 there is a " defective movement of the right fore limb," 

 a dry, scurfy, and itchy state of the skin, loss of appe- 

 tite, strength, &c. 



Remedy. — In ordinary cases light, digestible food will 

 sometimes suffice. A laxative, alternated with salines, 

 clears away excess of bile, and promotes a healthy action 

 of the liver. Ammonia chloride and salines useful where 

 a case is complicated with duodenal catarrh. (The duo- 

 denum is the first of the small intestines.) 



When depending on suppression of bile, apply mustard 

 or other stimulant over liver. Thickened ox bile, in bo- 

 lus, twice a day, with moderate doses of aromatic spirit 

 of ammonia between. Nitro-hydrochloric acid, and quin- 

 ine with it when the patient is weak. 



For doses, see pages 13 to 29. 



Little relief can be given in jaundice when it is caused 

 by scirrhosis or fatty degeneration. 



