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contains a cathartic principle not, however, of a very active 

 character, also anaemic conditions are present, therefore 

 its use as food is to be condemned. 



Our treatment must depend upon extended diagnosis 

 of the case. Derangements of the liver must be removed 

 according to their nature in each instance. Thus, in some 

 cases we need cholagogues, in others sedative agents. 

 In tuberculous and other structural derangements of the 

 organ, as well as when the escape of the bile is obstructed, 

 we must adopt palliative rather than curative means, which 

 latter can hardly prove effectual. Dieting with succulent 

 food of a nutritious and easily digestible character, gentle 

 and regular exercise, and the administration of eliminatives 

 which aid the action of skin and kidneys must be 

 adopted in all cases of jaundice. Stimulant tonics which 

 mildly promote the activity of the liver, such as beer, 

 prove useful, and the nitro-muriatic acid is recommended 

 in cases due to torpidity of the biliferous organ. Animals 

 highly fed, either for the production of milk or fat, are 

 very much predisposed to disorder of this nature, even 

 during health there is a yellowness of the skin and visible 

 mucous membranes in these animals. It is wonderful 

 what an amount of structural derangement and removal 

 of substance the liver may undergo without jaundice 

 appearing. Youatt remarks upon a special scaly eruption 

 which appears on the skin in these cases. 



Uejemia is described by Armatage as occurring in the 

 ox. It certainly is not frequent. It is accumulation in 

 the blood of urea and other urine constituents, either as a 

 result of a blocking up of the urinary passages, or of con- 

 siderable disorganisation of the kidneys. The retained 

 materials act upon the nervous system, producing active 

 toxic effects. The most marked symptoms are the 

 presence of urinary constituents in the sweat, which is 

 profuse, and has a very marked odour, and the slowness 

 of the pulse and respirations, with a marked fall of in- 

 ternal temperature. This is the result, generally, of long- 

 standing organic disease of the kidneys, and rapidly 

 proves fatal, inducing death by coma. Such is the 



