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despite a very great deal which has been written on 

 the subject of wind-sucking and crib-biting, I should 

 strongly recommend any owner of a horse which is far 

 advanced in the habit to get rid of him to the highest 

 bidder. 



Jaundice, or as it is sometimes termed, 'the yellows,' 

 and by the majority of grooms and such like ' jaunders,' 

 arises from a disordered state of the liver. It may be 

 that the latter is sluggish, congested, or inflamed. 

 Either of these conditions may be produced by undue 

 feeding, want of sufficient work, or chill. The com- 

 plaint is easily curable in its milder forms ; but, if the 

 result of inflammation, more stringent remedies are 

 requisite, and the services of a veterinary surgeon are 

 necessary. In the case of sluggishness or congestion 

 of the liver — the latter, it may be observed, frequently 

 following on the former — proper diet and exercise will, 

 accompanied by suitable medicine, generally serve to 

 effect a cure. For sluggishness, half a drachm of 

 calomel, with a small quantity of ginger, given daily 

 for three or four days, and for congestion a dose 

 of thirty grains of calomel and two drachms of 

 extract of gentian daily, are recommended. The 

 use of mustard, rubbed in externally over the seat 

 of the liver, is also said to produce good results in 

 reducing: the congestion. If weakness ensues tonics 

 must be administered. Two drachms of camomile, 

 two of gentian, and one of ginger, form a good tonic 

 ball, I may as well remark that jaundice is a com- 

 plaint which, unless it is the result of some other ail- 

 ment, should not occur in any stable in which the 

 management is what it ought to be. 



Fortunately for the horse-owner, the kidneys of a 



