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THE VETERINARY ART IN INDIA. 
I do not advance this as a positive inflammation of the liver, but 
it certainly, in my opinion, must have been inflamed sufficiently to 
produce pain. This is the more probable when the quantity of 
bile is considered, which, being obstructed in its natural passage to 
the stomach, is obliged to be absorbed from the liver and carried 
into the blood. By this course it also gives a yellow tinge to the 
secretions. 
This disease is produced generally from inaction after an active 
campaign, or any other continued customary exercise; it also 
frequently attends a change of diet or temperature. 
The cure generally succeeds by the following course of physic 
repeated two or three times, with intervals of six or eight days 
between each dose : — 
Take of calomel 2 drachms 
Soap sufficient to make it into a bolus. 
Twenty-four hours after it has been administered, if it does not 
purge, an ounce of aloes may be given, softened into a ball with 
soap, and a few drops of oil of aniseed or mint. His clothing 
should be increased, and he may be gently exercised morning and 
evening. If it is observed to be accompanied with pain in the right 
side, or lameness, a blister over the regions of the liver will be 
necessary. 
Ulcerated Liver. 
This is a disease which sometimes occurs in England ; and in 
this country I have reason to believe it to be very common, 
from many cases which I have already had an opportunity of 
witnessing. 
Unfortunately it can seldom be detected until too late to receive 
any benefit from medicine. I have known a horse to be taken ill 
and die in two or three days. The liver was found indurated in some 
parts, and there were very putrid ulcers in others, the organization of 
the whole being entirely destroyed ; he must, therefore, have been 
diseased a long time previous to his appearing ill. I imagine it must 
have proceeded from scirrhus, particularly as some parts of the liver 
were evidently in that state. 
The first instance of this kind I ever saw was in a horse belong- 
ing to an officer of the 25th Dragoons. He had become very dull, 
and off his appetite ; his coat was, however, smooth and loose. On 
examining his eyes, they were tinged with yellow ; his bowels 
lax, and his fseces very pale. The symptoms indicated a 
disease in the liver ; but neither inflammation nor simple obstruc- 
tion, as the former would be attended with pain or lameness, and 
the latter with pale, hard faeces, and dark yellow urine. A gentle 
