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ON EPIZOOTIC INFLAMMATION 
nutrition, the perusal of the last paragraph was highly gra- 
tifying. 
This paper is peculiarly valuable at the present moment, when 
we are about to commence, at our chief school, the study of a 
neglected and most important branch of veterinary instruction. 
We almost envy him whose duty it will be judiciously and satis¬ 
factorily to unfold this noble, but undervalued, portion of anato¬ 
mical and physiological science. Y. 
ON EPIZOOTIC INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER IN 
DOGS. 
By F. A. Becker, Veterinary Surgeon to the Eighth Regiment. 
Prussia?! Service. 
Inflammation of the liver, as it usually appears in our do¬ 
mesticated animals, is well described in several good veterinary 
manuals; an epizootic inflammation of the liver in dogs has, 
however, been hitherto little known : it will not, therefore, prove 
uninteresting if I offer a few observations on the symptoms of 
the disease, and the mode of treatment. 
Epizootic inflammation of the liver is a disease which most fre¬ 
quently attacks dogs in southerly climates, and particularly in 
those where there are sudden alternations from damp and cold to 
heat. It generally appears as a creeping venous inflammation, be¬ 
cause the liver is itself the real organ for venous blood. It after¬ 
wards easily takes on a typhoid character; and then, either from 
some existing predisposition or outward cause, such as weather, 
air, climate, situation, &c., appears as an epizootic or enzootic. 
Diagnosis .—This disease appears in a very insidious manner, 
and attacks dogs of every breed and every age, and particularly 
those which are over-fed. According to the observations which 
I had the opportunity of making, from April to August 1836, 
in Luxemburg, where in the valley is an oppressive sultry damp 
temperature, and on the hills a cold penetrating wind and chil¬ 
ling draughts of air, in the first appearance of the disease, before 
it is united with any other, and only exists as jaundice or gall- 
fever, it is to be recognized by the following characters:—faint¬ 
ness, sleepiness, dryness of the nose without great heat, matted 
and dull coat, failing appetite, running eyes, trifling fever, the 
pulse slightly accelerated, the conjunctiva and sclerotica of a 
yellow colour, the mucous membrane of the mouth and the inner 
surface of the conch of the ear pale, and the urine yellow. On 
the sixth or eighth day all these appearances are more decided. 
The yellow hue becomes more intense, and particularly on the 
