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greyish white ; at the commencement of the malady they 

 are of l. blackish colour, and frequently mixed with blood. 



"The termination of the malady, up to the present time 

 has been most frequently mortal ; some cases of cure have, 

 however, been recorded, but so rare that they have been 

 rather the exception, death being the rule. The patho- 

 logical alterations, without being absolutely constant, are 

 in the generality of cases as follows : all the tissues are 

 coloured yellow, the mucous membrane of the intestine is 

 sometimes the seat of pathological alterations, but at others 

 is perfectly healthy. The liver in certain cases is enlarged, 

 in others diminished in sizfe ; the colouration also varies in 

 this organ, and it often shows no alteration, but one thing 

 which I have always' found at the autopsy of dogs who had 

 died from the jaundice, is the accumulation of bile in the 

 gall-bladder — this is of a yellowish-green colour and very 

 thick. In the presence of these pathological lesions, it 

 seems that jaundice in the dog is not an incurable malady ; 

 the only question to resolve is how to find therapeutic agents 

 to combat the torpitude of the liver at the commencement 

 of the malady. 



" The author acknowledges that the microscopical inves- 

 tigations necessary to complete the study of the patho- 

 logical lesions have completely failed. 



"As often happens in maladies considered almost as 

 incurable, the treatment of this disease in the dog has been 

 most varied. Some have employed the antiphlogistic sys- 

 tem, bleeding, and revulsives ; others purgatives ; others 

 tonics. All these means have nearly always had the same 

 success — that is, some patients have recovered by chance ; 

 notwithstanding all that could be done, however, the ma- 

 jority have died, sometimes of the malady, at others of the 

 treatment. We will pass in review the remedies recom- 

 mended by the different veterinary authors who have 

 written on this malady. 



" M. U. Leblanc, whose writing is the most complete on 



