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Moderate exercise may be allowed, but exposure to cold or 

 damp must be strictly guarded against. Animals once afEect- 

 ed with jaundice are peculiarly liable to a return of the com- 

 plaint, and therefore need more than ordinary attention. 



From the Veterinarian, May, 1870, I transcribe the follow- 

 ing 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 com- 

 bat it. 



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

 acknowledged, were not well acquainted with it, and there- 

 fore not very competent. It is more particularly in the 

 treatises on sport that we find any description or treatment of 

 this malady, hence very diifferent 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 ques- 

 tion, and have tried to connect it with a certain order of 

 anatomical lesion ; but in many cases these anatomical le- 

 sions 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, 



