282 CURE OF JAUNDICE. [BOOK II. 



Sometimes, however, yellowness comes on without 

 the other symptoms, after an inflammatory fever ; 

 an occurrence that cannot fail to be foreknown. 

 Genuine jaundice may further be discriminated by 

 the yellow lips, yellow saliva, and dark arine. 

 From the latter appearance we may draw these 

 curious inferences — viz. that the colouring of the 

 bile which has ceased to impart its property to the 

 dung, having gone with the blood to the kidneys, 

 there leaves its darkest or more earthy particles — 

 the lighter or brighter ascending to the heart, and 

 passing through the vascular system there imparts 

 its yellowness. By this providency of nature we 

 see how it is that malevolent particles in the blood 

 are cleansed at the kidneys, and pass off by urine. 

 Thus it is that grease and other tumours are cured 

 by judiciously stimulating the kidneys. The urine 

 voided, as above described, which is ever done with 

 evident pain and difficulty, leaves on the ground an 

 appearance of blood. 



Cure. — Young horses and fat ones are easily 

 cured : they have indulged too freely in good liv- 

 ing, on hard meat, and require no more treatment 

 than a good physicking. Give the usual purgative 

 ball (page 185), or the alterative ball, No. 1, pre- 

 scribed in page 280. After the bowels have become 

 settled, give bran mashes, green food, and succulents, 

 according to the season. Bleeding is seldom neces- 

 sary, or proper, which the state of the pulse will 

 show. 



The Liver is also frequently affected with tu- 



