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on the right side, slight spasms on that side, or wavy motions of the 

 skin over the region of the hver — a general fullness of the belly, but 

 most referable to the right side, and the expression of considerable 

 pain when pressure is made on that side. Occasionally, the animal 

 looks round on this part, and endeavors to rest his muzzle upon it. 

 There is usuall}^ some degree of constipation ; the beast does not 

 urinate so often or so abundantly as in health, and the urine is yellow 

 or brown, or, in a few cases, bloody. 



The proper remedies are bleeding, physic, blisters on the right 

 side, and restricted diet, from which everything of a stimulating 

 kind is carefully withdrawn. The most frequent causes of this com- 

 plaint are blows, over-driving, the use of too stimulating food, and 

 the sudden suppression of some cutaneous disease. 



Inflammation of the liver sometimes takes on a chronic form. 

 Perhaps it never assumed any great degree of intensity, or the intense 

 inflammation was palliated, but not removed ; and this state may 

 exist for some months, or years, not characterized by any decided 

 symptom, and but little interfering with health. Then commences 

 induration, or hardening of a portion of the liver, or of the greater 

 part of it, and accompanied by tubercles, vomicae, hydatids, and the 

 existence of the fluke-worm in the ducts. 



The difficulty of detecting this chronic inflammation during the 

 /ife of the animal throws much obscurity on the mode of treating it. 

 Permanent yellowness of the skin — a constant but not violent 

 cough — and the want of, or the slowness in acquiring, condition be- 

 yond a certain degree, would be the symptoms of most frequent 

 occurrence. The treatment should consist of the frequent exhibition 

 of gentle purgatives, with a more than the usual quantity of the aro- 

 matic (six ounces of Epsom salts, and half an ounce of ginger,) and 

 the food should be green, succulent, and as little stimulating as pos- 

 sible. Mercury, to which recourse is usually had, when a similar 

 complaint is suspected to exist in the human subject, would be worse 

 than thrown away upon cattle. In the majority of cases in which 

 it is used for the diseases of cattle, it produces decidedly injurious 

 effect. 



Homoeopathic treatment. — The principal remedies are aconitvm at 

 first, then nux vomica alternately with mercurius vivus. Murias 

 magnesicB also deserves to be specially recommended. If the symp- 

 toms of jaundice predominate, chamomilla and mercurius vivus should 

 be employed, and when hard faeces predominate, nux vomica and 

 hryonia. Lycopodium is useful in rhronic cases, in the same manner 

 as when there are colics which disappear as long as the animal re- 

 mains lying down on the left side. 



HEMORRHAGE FROM THE LIVER. 



It has already beer, observed that when these animals are turned 



