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the respiration, and an affection of the lungs complicates the 

 malady (M. Leblanc). If the animal is bled in the course of 

 the disease, the blood exhales a peculiar odor, and the serum 

 is tinted with yellow. From the moment the yellow tint ap- 

 pears, the faecal evacuations become often greyish-white ; at 

 the commencement of the malady they are of a blackish color, 

 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 pathological 

 alterations, without being absolutely constant, are in the gen- 

 erality of cases as follows : all the tissues are colored 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 coloration 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 color and. very thick. In the presence of these patho- 

 logical 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 investi- 

 gations necessary to complete the study ot the pathological 

 lesions have completely failed. 



" As often happens in maladies considered almost as incur- 

 able, the treament of this disease in the dog has been most 

 varied. Some have employed the antiphlogistic system, 

 bleeding, and revulsives ; other 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 majority have died, some- 

 times ot the malady, at others of the treatment. We will pass 



