402 ON YELLOWS. 



the adminiflration of thefe ought to be in able 

 profefiional hands. Gibfon recommends bleed- 

 ings, from the inflammatory ftate in which he 

 has found the livers, on diffeftion of jaundiced 

 horfes. 



Frequently there will be but little occafion 

 for medicine, for the horfe will be dead in two 

 or three days after being taken from work, 

 when the liver will be found totally decayed ; 

 or a dark fanious difcharge will iflue from the 

 nofe and mouth, which the farriers fay is the 

 difeafe changed to the black jaundice, and 

 which is incurable : I have feen both thefe cafes 

 repeatedly, but never that inflammatory fpecies 

 of the difeafe which Gibfon fays produces deli- 

 rium and madnefs. 



The inveterate jaundice may with the utmoft 

 propriety take the denomination of consump- 

 tion in horfes ; a cafe in which the fuccefs of 

 a long courfe of medicine would by no means 

 be fo certain as the expence and trouble. A 

 fhort courfe well advifed. Salt marfiies. Straw- 

 yard with carrots and lucern hay. 



Dr. Eagleton Smith records a cure of jaun- 

 dice, fuppofed to originate from a wound in the 

 liver, the patient being a foldier, with flieep's 

 gall and water, given after meals; the dofe, 

 half an ounce of the gall frefli, to two ounces 

 water. The digeftive power had been totally 

 deftroyed by the difeafe. From a number of 



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