94 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



From the Veterinarian, May, 1870, I transcribe the 

 following interesting paper : — 

 "JAUNDICE IN THE DOG AND ITS TREATMENT. 



" BY M. WEBER, VETERINARY SURGEON, PARIS. 



" The author believes he does not exaggerate in saying 

 that, up to the present time, jaundice in the dog has been 

 considered by veterinary practitioners as generally, if not 

 always, mortal, and that therapeutics were powerless to 

 combat it. 



" The authors who have written on this disease, it must 

 be acknowledged, were not well acquainted with it, and 

 therefore not very competent. It is more particularly in 

 the treatises on sport that we find any description or treat- 

 ment of this malady, hence very different theories and 

 treatments have been produced without resulting in any 

 benefit, either to science or to the patient. 



"Some veterinary authors, however, have treated the 

 question, and have tried to connect it with a certain order 

 of anatomical lesion ; but in many cases these anatomical 

 lesions are insufficient, at least, according to the results of 

 my experience. 



" Before proceeding, it is important to state what I under- 

 stand by jaundice ; it is not every malady in which the 

 yellow icteric tint is often a symptom of a more serious 

 organic lesion, and which it would be useless to attempt to 

 cure, that should be considered as jaundice. The jaundice 

 in the dog, such as I have often been able to observe, is, 

 like the icterus, simple and grave in the human subject, and 

 it is of this form only that I intend to treat ; it corresponds 

 to the malady in man, described by M. Ozanam as Icterus 

 essential character grave,din(iwfh.{c]i has also been designated 

 as Icterus malignus. In a great number of cases the icteric 

 tint is a symptom connected almost always with some 

 serious lesions (such as rupture of the liver, abscesses and 

 cyst in the same, scirrhous tumours, obstruction and rup- 

 tures of the gall-ducts, intestinal invaginations). 



