160 CHRONIC HEPATITIS. 
The gentleman’s delight is almost as liable as the brewer’s pride. Even 
moderate food and too little work will engender the disease. The author, 
when he quitted the veterinary college, left in that establishment an 
Arab, which, from a year’s stagnation, was obviously thus disordered. 
The primary symptoms are not well marked, and do not, generally, 
attract attention. The animal is dull and averse to move. It appears 
to have imbibed a fondness for the inactivity to which it has been accus- 
tomed. The appetite is either nice, altogether lost, or unscrupulously 
ravenous; the bowels are constipated; the dung is black, and coated 
with bilious-looking mucus; it is friable, and imperfectly digested. Ifa 
white paper be pressed upon it, a greenish-yellow stain is imparted. 
The urine is scanty, and, commonly, highly colored; while the pulse has 
a heavy beat, as though treacle, instead of blood, circulated within the 
artery. 
The signs which indicate a confirmation of the disorder are: the 
mouth feels cold; the nasal membranes are unnaturally pallid; the whites 
of the eyes are ghastly, displaying a yellow tinge; sometimes the horse 
looks at the right side; usually, it lies upon the left ribs, but never for 
any long time; tenderness may be exhibited, if the right side be pressed 
upon. However, the last symptom is rarely present, and lameness in 
either fore leg is seldom witnessed. 
The disease is, for the most part, obscure, and is best recognized when 
medicine has become powerless. If early detected, a limited, but suffi- 
cient supply of nutritious food; plenty of, but not exhausting labor, 
with a long course of iodine in alterative doses, are calculated to work 
some beneficial change. 
Todide of potassium . . . . . . . « Two ounces. 
Liquor potasse . . ..... One quart. 
Mix, and give two tablespoonfuls night and morning, in a pint of water. 
Commonly, however, bleeding from the liver is the earliest recognized 
indication of disease. Then the horse, with depressed head, is found 
standing before untouched food; often it staggers; sometimes it sup- 
ports itself against the partition to the stall; it always maintains the 
erect position with extreme difficulty; the pupil of the eyes are enlarged ; 
if the hand be moved before the sight, the lid does not close; the vision 
is lost; the pupils are much dilated; the breath, denoting weakness, is 
short and catching; the jaw is pulseless, and the heart flutters; the 
visible membranes are deathly; and the bilious nature of the disorder is, 
in these last parts, apparent. Should the head, only for a minute, be 
raised, the animal threatens to fall. 
The first attack is seldom fatal, and possibly might, by proper usage, 
be recovered from. The bleeding, then, is from the substance of the 
