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Analysis of Continental Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
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 
combat it. 
The authors who have written on the disease, it must be ac- 
knowledged, were not well acquainted with it, and therefore 
not very competent. It is more particularly in the treatises on 
sport that we find any description or treatment of this malady, 
hence very different theories and treatment have been pro- 
duced 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 ana- 
tomical lesion ; but in many cases these anatomical lesions 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 described by M. Ozanam as Icterus , essential y character , 
grave , and which has also been designated as Icterus malignus. 
In a great number of cases the icteric tint is a symp- 
tom connected almost always with some serious lesions 
(such as rupture of the liver, abscesses, and cyst, in the same 
scirrhous tumours, obstruction and ruptures of the gall- 
ducts, intestinal invaginations). 
The ictenis benign , so frequent in the human subject that 
it is considered of very little consequence, is very rare in the 
dog. On the other hand, the icterus grave is nearly always 
fatal; but, notwithstanding, at the autopsy there are rarely 
found anatomical lesions sufficient to account for the death, 
or the gravity of the symptoms during life. 
Sex does not appear to have any influence in the produc- 
tion of the malady — male and female are alike subject to 
it, though the number of males that came under treatment 
