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tion of the skin, mucous membranes, and white 

 portion of the eye well known to hound-masters and 

 kennel-men. 



Jaundice 



This term, as previously stated, is indicative of a 

 liver affection, of which the jaundiced or yellow 

 condition is the predominating feature, and when it 

 appears amongst a kennel of young dogs it may, 

 with very good reason, be regarded as existing in 

 combination with distemper, or as a complication 

 of this malady. In addition to the yellowness of 

 the skin, etc., the excrescences from the urinary 

 apparatus are stained with bile pigment; vomiting 

 and diarrhoea are not uncommonly present, whilst 

 if the dog has distemper there will be in addition 

 the severe depression characteristic of that malady. 

 The internal temperature usually ranges about 104 or 

 105 degrees, and remains near this point until an 

 amendment occurs. The saffron discoloration of the 

 skin, etc., is produced by the absorption of the bile into 

 the blood, and its subsequent distribution throughout 

 the various tissues of the body, upon which it exerts 

 a detrimental influence, and the longer it exists in 

 these abnormal situations the more serious the 

 trouble becomes. 



Management and Treatment. — Doubtless the high 

 percentage of deaths arising from liver complications 

 in connection with distemper might and ought to 



