400 ON YELLOWS. 



the horfe fafe from cold ; and mild mercurial 

 phyfic. In the fame manner the Vives are to 

 be treated. 



THE YELLOWS, 



Or JAUNDICE of the human fpecies, is a 

 common difeafe amongft horfes and horned 

 cattle, and (bmetimes affociated with other ma- 

 ladies, as fever, catarrh, coHc. The idopathic, 

 or jaundice, fimply confidered, is the primary 

 effeft of an obftruftion in the common gall- 

 pipe (for the horfe has no gall-bladder) from 

 various caufes, by which the bile, or great part 

 of it, inftead of taking its deftined courfe into 

 the lower part of the firft of the fmall guts, 

 where it is defigned by nature to blunt and 

 fheathe the acids of the chyle, regurgitates into 

 the vena cava, thence paffing into the circu- 

 lation, tinging the fluids with a yellow hue. 

 The fymptoms are fluggifl^inefs, want of appe- 

 tite, rough coat, lofs of flefh, and hollownefs of 

 flanks, low fever, yellownefs of the eyes and 

 mouth, pale or brown urine, crude, loofe, and 

 pale excrement, or very dark coloured, and in 

 fmall balls. 



Should the difeafe have arifen from high 

 keep and indigeflion, for want of air and ex- 

 ercife, or timely purgation, and the horfe be in 

 tolerable ftrength, begin the cure by once mo- 

 derate bleeding, and the next day give the mild 



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