324 DISEASES OF DOGS: JAUNDICE. 



stomach ; and his bowels are also very bound. We 

 have known dog-s, when taken out for the chase, 

 at the commencement of this complaint, lie down 

 in the fields incapable of proceeding any further. 



We lately examined a dog that died of this dis- 

 ease, and found in the gall-bladder, and the duct 

 that conveys bile into the intestines, four small 

 gall-stones : these impeded the passage of bile into 

 the intestines, and the bile consequently entered 

 the circulating system, and produced a yellowness. 

 Diseases of the liver, or a spasm of the duct, that 

 conveys bile into the intestines, seem sometimes to 

 occasion this disease. 



The first remedy to be administered in this 

 complaint, should be the following emetic. 



(RECIPE, No. 21.) 

 Emetic for Jaundice. 



Take — Tartarised antimony, two grains ; 



Ipecacuanha, in powder, one scruple : 

 Make into a ball with conserve, or mix it in 

 , thin gruel, and give it every other day for 



three or four times. 



The day after the operation of the emetic, give 

 the following ball, and repeat it every third or 

 fourth day, until the disease be cured. 



