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greyish white ; at the commencement of the malady they 
are of a 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 size; 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 Misise 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 
