88 THE MANAGEMENT AND DISEASES OF THE DOG. 



first removing the hair, is the best agent for this purpose, and 

 more in accordance with the nature of a glandular disease. 

 Calomel may also be administered with benefit in one-grain 

 doses, combined with ten grains of rhubarb or a scruple of 

 aloes, every other day. Intermediate doses of dilute nitric 

 acid, two to four drops twice a day, often assist recovery and 

 keeps a clean palate ; or the iodide of potassium, in five to 

 ten grain doses, may be tried. , Plain unstimulating food and 

 free exercise should be allowed, and a relaxed condition of 

 the bowels maintained. 



Chronic hepatitis, from interference in the portal circula- 

 tion, often terminates in ascites, more particularly in old 

 dogs. (See "Dropsy.") 



JAUNDICE (Icterus). 



This is an affection to which dogs are peculiarly liable. 

 Greyhounds have been stated to be more generally the sub- 

 ject of it than other breeds. My experience of the disease, 

 however, has been chiefly confined to the smaller breeds, es- 

 pecially pampered house-dogs. 



Jaundice may exist alone, or be associated with other 

 affections, particularly distemper, in which, by dog-men, it is 

 usually separated from the malady giving rise to it, and 

 treated independently as the " Yellows." (See " Distem- 

 per.") 



Causes. — Suppression or retention of bile, more particu- 

 larly the latter, which becomes re-absorbed into the system.^ 



* Sir Thomas Watson, in his lecture on this subject, says : " There 

 can be no doubt that when the bile, after being formed in the liver, is de- 

 tained there, or in the gall-bladder, in consequence of some impediment 

 to its excretion, it is re-absorbed— both by the lymphatic vessels and by 

 the veins — carried into the circulation, and so conveyed to the surface, 

 and to the parts in which the change of color is observed. In the begin- 

 ning of the present century, Dr. Saunders, of Guy's Hospital, made, on 



