DISEASES OF THE LIVER. 201 



important organ. It produces constipation, dullness, and a yellow- 

 ish tinge of the eyes. As soon as this latter sign appears, there 

 should be no delay, lest inflammation supervene. 



The treatment consists in giving an active purge, to be repeated 

 every morning, until the bowels are in their usual healthy condi- 

 tion, the yellowness of the eyes has disappeared, and the appetite 

 has returned. The purge may be the following, given in molasses 

 placed upon the tongue : 



Epsom Salts 1 ounce. 



Lalomel 3 grains. 



The patient should be supplied with slightly warm drink soon 

 after swallowing the medicine. 



Inflammation of the Liver. By neglect, the disease, last men- 

 tioned, may result in inflammation of the liver. When this hap- 

 pens the system becomes fevered ; the nose and mouth hot and 

 dry ; the breath fetid ; the ears cold ; the eyes pale and glassy ; 

 the pulse is irregular ; breathing is slow, and the expirations short 

 and sudden ; the dung is dry, hard, black, and glazed with a greasy 

 yellowish-green mucus ; the urine is highly colored, scanty, hot, 

 and smells disagreeably. Pressure on the right side, near the 

 short ribs, produces pain, and the animal moans. 



The treatment consists of purgatives and injections. For a pur- 

 gative, the following may be given twice a day in infusion of lin- 

 seed or gum arabic or in molasses, well mixed together and placed 

 on the tongue : 



Sulphate of Potash 2 drams. 



Calomel 5 grains. 



Powdered Opium 1 grain. 



Injections of warm water and castile soap may be given until the 

 bowels act freely. 



When improvement occurs, and the appetite returns, great care 

 in feeding should be observed, and only the most easily digested 

 food should be given. Pulped sugar beet, scalded clover-hay 

 chaff, linseed-meal, boiled malt, or sifted corn-meal, may be given 

 with linseed tea for drink, or water acidulated with a few drops 

 of aromatic sulphuric acid. 



DISEASES OF THE BLOOD. 



The blood being the very foundation of the*life of the animal, 

 must exist in a state of purity, or the vital functions are at once 

 disordered. Anything, therefore, that vitiates the blood or unfits 

 it for the proper performance of those functions which have been 



