408 JAUNDICE. 



the bowels lax, not in a purging state. If the symptoms be 

 such as bespeak chronic inflammation, or incipient consoli- 

 dation, blister the right side. In cases where costiveness is 

 not present, but, on the contrary, a relaxed state of the 

 bowels appears, give the following : — 



No. 2. — Calomel a scmple. 



Blue vitriol half a drachm. 



Gentian, in powder three drachms. 



Oak bark, in powder three drachms. 



Make into a ball, and give night and morning, unless the 

 calomel should aflfect the mouth, in which case give only 

 once a day. Should the looseness increase on this plan, 

 add powdered opium, a drachm to each ball. In all cases 

 of yellows, a change of food is proper, and generally neces- 

 sary. In winter, spear the corn, or give carrots ; in sum- 

 mer, soil, or give green grasses ; but, in such case, avoid 

 exposure to the night air, making use of moderate cloth- 

 ing so long as the calqjnel is continued. 



THE YELLOWS, OR JAUNDICE, IN OXEN AND SHEEP. 



These animals having a gall-bladder and cystic duct, are 

 more liable to biliary obstructions than horses ; hence 

 this complaint is more frequent among them. It is very 

 common in some of the cold provinces on the Continent, 

 where these animals are stall-fed in winter ; from which, 

 numbers of them are attacked with it in the spring. In 

 England, it is less often the consequence of confinement 

 than of a slow inflammation of the liver. 



The symptoms are standing apart from the herd, looking 

 ragged, with signs of constitutional disturbance, and a 

 peculiar yellowness of the skin, as well as sometimes of 

 the hair also. Cows are more liable than oxen to the 

 disorder ; and when cows are attacked, the milk often be- 

 comes discoloured, as well as occasionally ropy. 



Treatment. — The remedy in this disease depends upon 

 the administration of tonic bitters, purgatives, and alkalies, 

 in order so far as possible to supply the loss of the natural 

 secretion. With these agents are blended, in case any 

 enlargement can be detected upon the right side, a blister 

 over the swollen part, and the exhibition of iodide of 

 potassium night and morning, in half drachm doses. 



