146 Diseases of the Horse. 



No. 138. Laudanum, 3 oz. 



Boiled starch, 1 pint. 



For a clyster; to be repeated every two hours until the straining 

 ceases. 



No. 139. Extract of belladonna, 2 drachms. 



Chloroform, J oz. 



Fresh milk, 1 pint. 



Eub up the extract in the milk, add the chloroform, and throw up 

 the rectum with a syringe. 



CONGESTION AND INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER — HEP ATITIS — 



THE YELLOWS — JAUNDICE. 



In horses and cattle liver diseases are not very common, 

 and Avhen they do occur are not easily recognized. They are 

 usually of the forms known as congestion or torpidity of 

 the liver, and inflammation of the organ and its covering, 

 called in medicine '^hepatitis" and " peri-hepatitis." 



Causes. — The general cause is too rich food and too little 

 exercise. Horses which are kept for pleasure, largely fed and 

 little worked, Avhile their stables are warm and dark, are apt 

 to have their livers grow torpid. So also it is said that horses 

 fed on the refuse of the malt house, a rich stimulating food, 

 are particularly liable to the same trouble. It is more fre- 

 quently met with in the southern than in the northern 

 States, and more in cities than in the country. 



Symptoms. — The horse is dull, inactive, has a heavy head, 

 lustreless eye, and is dainty and capricious about his food. 

 The dung balls are small and dark colored; the urine is scanty 

 and dark ; the pulse is faster than natural, and has a heavy 

 beat. After a few days the whites of the eyes and the tongue 

 turn yellow, there is tenderness on the right side over the 

 liver when it is pressed upon, and sometimes there is lame- 

 ness in the off shoulder. 



More frequently the yellows do not show very decided 

 symptoms. The eyes are of a dirty yellow color, the appe- 



