CHAP. I.] LIVER : — THE YELLOWS. 277 



tion with the bowels does not always return to a 

 healthy state, though we believe it to be partially 

 the case. Indeed, constipation in the first instance 

 often obstructs the passage of bile into the bowels, 

 and thus increases the evil. Overfeeding has the 

 same effect, and both produce light temporary 

 yellowness, which goes off upon the removal of the 

 cause, generally followed by diarrhoea. The fe- 

 verish symptoms also which accompany the com- 

 mencement, also pass off leaving a low, irregular 

 pulse, until the bowels resume their wonted course, 

 either naturally, or by the aid of medicine. 



Symptoms of inflammation before yellowness 

 comes on. — As this last and surest indication of 

 diseased liver only appears when the evil is a con- 

 firmed one, and is extremely difficult of cure, par- 

 ticularly in old animals, we should assiduously set 

 about ascertaining its commencement, so that the 

 remedy may be promptly employed, and a further 

 procrastinated mischief be timely prevented. And 

 the more so, seeing that what constitutes a remedy 

 in its earliest stages is no longer so after a long 

 while has been spent in delay. 



Whenever inflammation, or extraordinary action 

 of the kidneys, or of the diaphragm, has lasted 

 some time, in ever so small a degree, in that de- 

 gree will heat or inflammation attend the liver. It 

 enlarges upon the accession of this heat, visibly so 

 when this has continued a while, but may be pre- 

 viously ascertained by the feel. As will be seen *, 



* In the plate of skeleton, at the parallel lines H, 28, 29, is placed 



