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ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
M. U. Leblanc, whose writing is the most complete on the 
jaundice of the dog, recommends repeated bleedings at the 
commencement, manna, sulphate of magnesia, enemas, with 
the addition of starch and laudanum ; if diarrhoea is present 
disacordium half a drachm. He insists on hygienic means; 
panades, with the addition of butter, for which broth is to be 
substituted afterwards ; clean, warm, dry quarters, &c. 
Hurtrel d’Arboval, inspired by the writings of M. U. 
Leblanc, also recommends bleeding at the onset, mucilagi- 
nous drinks, with nitre, emollient enemas, &c. 
M. Prudhomme says that the treatment of jaundice in 
the dog does not often succeed, as it is one of the most fatal 
maladies of the canine species. He has, however, obtained 
some favorable results from small repeated bleedings, whey 
drinks, mucilage from decoction of linseed or carrots and 
barley, to which were added a few grammes of cream of 
tartar, enemas with starch and opium. 
Professor Hertwig, of Berlin, employs emetics, slight 
purges, as, for example, calomel with honey, or cream of 
tartar, friction on the abdomen, with ammoniacal liniment. 
M. C. Leblanc recommends baths with bran water, leeches 
on the abdomen, emollient enemas, sulphate of soda (if con- 
stipated), mustard on the chest and feet. He adds that if 
an improvement does not speedily set in death is certain. 
M. Lafosse advises the same means as those directed by 
M. C. Leblanc, the decoction of carrots and cream of tartar; 
if extreme debility sets in to have recourse to quinine wine. 
The author says he has tried all the remedies suggested, 
and despairing of the results, asks himself the question 
whether an agent could not be found which has a special 
action on the liver and the biliary system powerful enough 
to combat this terrible malady. Another question was 
whether the icteric colour depended really on bile being 
mixed with the blood in jaundice, as has been asserted, or 
whether it is owing to an incomplete separation of the 
elements which constitute the bile from the blood, in con- 
sequence of the liver not performing its proper function. 
u I am inclined,” the author says, “ to the latter supposi- 
tion, seeing that the icteric colour supervenes principally 
when there is atrophy of the liver, and also in the adipose 
liver, and when the substance of this organ has been invaded 
by the tissue of foreign substance, such as cancerous tumours, 
it cannot be supposed that in these cases there can be a 
superabundant secretion of bile to mix with the blood ; it 
seems infinitely more simple to admit that the function of 
the gland is insufficient to separate the elements of the bile 
