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has a more decided yellow tint ; the animal becomes more 
and more feeble, gets up with difficulty, and exhales a peculiar 
disagreeable odour from the mouth, the weakness becomes 
extreme, the emaciation is visible, the extremities grow cold, 
the animal becomes now insensible to surrounding objects, 
and death terminates the scene. Sometimes the malady 
lasts only two days, but in general the duration varies from 
two to five days. 
In some cases a cough supervenes, with acceleration of 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 odour and the 
serum is tinted with yellow. From the moment the yellow 
tint appears the faecal evacuations become often greyish-white ; 
at the commencement of the malady, they are of a blackish 
colour 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, how- 
ever, been recorded, but so rare that they have been rather 
the exception, death being the rule. The pathological alter- 
ations, without being absolutely constant, are in the generality 
of cases as follows : — All the tissues are coloured 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 accu- 
mulation of bile in the gall-bladder; this is of a yellow- 
greenish colour and very thick. In the presence of these 
pathological 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 investiga- 
tions necessary to complete the study of the pathological 
lesions have completely failed. 
As often happens in maladies considered almost as incura- 
ble, the treatment of this disease in the dog has been most 
varied. Some have employed the antiphlogistic system, 
bleeding, and revulsives, others 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 of the malady, at others of the treatment. We will 
pass in review the remedies recommended by the different 
veterinary authors who have written on this malady. 
