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patcd, tlioiigh sometimes purging exists. Rumination 

 IS usually ilisturbcd, and occasionally altogether sus- 

 pended. To these will occasionally be added the cha- 

 racteristic symptoms of pain on pressure on the edge of 

 the short ribs on the right side. In acute inflammation 

 of the liver, the most frantic pain has been exhibited; 

 but this is rarely the case. 



Inflammation of the liver frerjuently leaves after it a 

 great deal of" weakness, and tonics are clearly indicated. 

 The best medicine that can be given is the following: 



RECIPE. 



Tonic Drink. — Take gentian root, powdered, half an 

 ounce ; ginger, powdered, one drachm ; epsom salts, two 

 ounces. Mix the whole with a pint of warm gruel, and 

 give it morning and night. 



THE YELLOWS, OR JAUNDICE. Jf 



It may be produced by inflammation of the liver, or 

 too great secretion of the bile, or stoppage of the vessels 

 through which the bile should flow into the bowels. If 

 its passage is obstructed, it is thrown back again upon 

 the liver, and there taken up by the absorbents, and 

 carried into the circulation, and communicates a yellow 

 color to the blood. 



At the beginning of the disease there is considerable 

 dulness and languor, and loss of appetite. The cow 

 wanders about by herself, or is seen standing by the 

 side of the hedge or the fence in a most dejected man- 

 ner. Th* iuantity of milk is generally lessened ; the 

 bowels are costive ; and the fore-teeth are sometimes 

 loose. 



Should the pulse be strong as well as quick, moderate 

 bleeding will be judicious, but not otherwise. The 

 bowels should then be freely opened by means of a 

 purging drink, and kept open by half-doses of it admin- 

 istered as occasion may require. :- 



