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ON JAUNDICE IN THE DOG. 
to feed, an ounce of manna dissolved in warm water must be 
given, and the dog must be drenched plentifully and often with 
linseed tea. If watery diarrhoea should supervene, and the belly 
is not hot and tender, a drachm or more, according to the size 
of the dog, of the sulphate of magnesia or soda should be ad- 
ministered, and this medicine should be repeated if the purging 
continues. More especially should this aperient be had recourse 
to when the feeces are more or less bloody, there being no fever 
or peculiar tenderness of the belly. When the liquid excrement 
contains much blood, and that blood is of a deep colour, all 
medicines given by the mouth should be suspended, and frequent 
injections should be thrown up, consisting of thin starch with a 
few drops of laudanum. Too much cold water should not be 
allowed in this stage of the disease. These injections, and drinks 
compound of starch and opium, are the means most likely to 
succeed in the black diarrhoea, which is so frequent and so 
fatal, and which almost always precedes the fatal termination of 
all the diseases connected with jaundice. 
In simple cases of jaundice, the neutral salts have seldom 
produced much good effect; but I have obtained considerable 
success with the diascordium, in doses from half a drachm to a 
drachm. 
Great care should betaken with regard to the diet of the dog 
that has had jaundice with bloody or black diarrhoea, for the 
cases of relapse are frequent and serious, and almost always 
caused by improper or too abundant food. A panada of bread 
with a little butter will constitute the best nourishment when 
the dog begins a little to recover his appetite : from this he may 
be gradually permitted to return to his former food. Most espe- 
cially should the animal not be suffered to take cold, or to be left 
in a low and damp situation. This attention to the food of the 
convalescent dog may be thought to be pushed a little too far, 
but experience has taught me to consider it of the utmost import- 
ance, and it is neither expensive nor troublesome. 
Journal des Haras, Mai 1837. 
[We regard this as a very valuable paper : many important 
points are well treated ; but we must, when time and space will 
permit, refer to a few others in which we differ from our excellent 
friend M. Leblanc. We shall not fear to enter the lists with him, 
for courtesy and kindly feeling will not be forgotten by either 
of us. — Y.] 
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