Jaundice may be present as a symptom of almost any inflammatory disease.
Jaundice may also exist during the presence of simple constipation, hepatitis, biliary calculi, abscesses, hardening of the liver, etc.
When jaundice exists we must endeavor to rid the system of the excess of bile, and this is best accomplished by giving purgatives that act upon the liver.
These are rarely found in the horse, but may occupy the hepatic ducts, giving rise to jaundice and to colicky pains.
These arejaundice (yellowness of the mucous membranes of the mouth, nose, and eyes) and the condition of the dung, it being light in color and pasty in appearance.
In a few cases the jaundice may be attributed to catarrh of the biliary ducts, but this solution of the question will not explain those cases in which the feces remain colored throughout.
To render this conclusion still more absolute, he has only to recall the suddenness of the occurrence of the jaundiceand to inquire what has occasioned it.
Appetite and strength soon began to return, though some jaundice persisted, and by August 17th he felt able to drive out a short distance, and retired feeling somewhat fatigued.
Bile-pigment was constantly present in jaundiced cases, the amount being proportioned to the depth of the jaundice and the quantity of the urine.
Urine loaded with albumen and showing under the microscope abundant blood-corpuscles; considerable jaundice present, which the patient states to have occurred suddenly.
The presence of jaundice in combination with the general features of high fever imparts a most peculiar and alarming appearance to such patients.
Jaundice must be regarded as an unfavorable or even a grave symptom in relapsing fever, but not to the extent that would be the case were it directly connected with the intensity of the blood-dyscrasia.
In other cases the symptoms of gastritis are more prominent, or jaundice may appear and aggravate the disease.
A person suffering under the effects of chronic malarial poisoning is seized with a chill; this is followed by bloody urine, and in the course of four or five hours intense jaundice appears.
On the other hand, jaundice and tenderness in the epigastric zone are more common than in typhoid fever.
It was a capital prescription which had done hisjaundice good.
There is a type of jaundice that appears between the second and fifth day of life that is very common.
The condition lasts about two weeks, but the jaundice may last much longer.
These infants develop jaundice a day or two after birth and become intensely jaundiced within a very brief time.
There is a form of jaundice caused by a defect in the development of the bile or gall tubes.
After a few days the jaundicesets in and may be quite intense.
This form of jaundice begins like an attack of ordinary indigestion.
After the jaundice is established the stools are gray or white in color and there is much gas in the bowel.
Ammonium Chloride: in scruple doses in jaundice from mental emotions.
Ammonium Chloride: in jaundicedue to catarrh of the bile-ducts, early stage of cirrhosis; deficient intestinal secretion.
Stillingia: in cirrhosis; torpidity and jaundice following intermittent fever; ascites due to hepatic changes; to be combined with Nux Vomica, in deficient secretion.
Thus a young woman affected with jaundice is mentioned in the German "Annals of Clinical Homoeopathy" as having been cured in twenty-nine days by pulsatilla and nux vomica.
I've heard it said that people with thejaundice see everything yellow; perhaps I saw things looking a little queerly, with that black and blue spot I could n't account for threatening to make a colored man and brother of me.
As the respiratory function and that of the skin increase in activity, the jaundice will disappear of its own accord.
Neither condition is serious; that of actual jaundice occurs mostly in the summer, and is then connected with the sudden onset of hot weather.
Syrup made of the juice of Camomile, with the flowers, in white wine, is a remedy against the jaundice and dropsy.
Both Dioscorides and Galen say, That if a decoction be made thereof with water, and they that have the yellow jaundice exercise their bodies directly after the taking thereof, it will certainly cure them.
Matthiolus saith, The decoction thereof being drank, helps the jaundice and dropsy, all pains of the head and sinews that come of a cold cause, and clears the eye-sight.
It is also helpful for melancholy, and the black jaundice that arise thereof.
It is generally used against infirmities of the Spleen: It helps the stranguary, and wasteth the stone in the bladder, and is good against the yellow jaundice and the hiccough; but the juice of it in women hinders conception.
Matthiolus saith, that both the seed of the male and female Mercury boiled with Wormwood and drank, cures the yellow jaundice in a speedy manner.
It is an excellent remedy against the yellow jaundice and other infirmities of the gall, because Mars governs choler.
The Mohammedans of Deccan use it for jaundice upon the theory that the yellow color of the skin in that disease is an indication for a remedy of the same color.
A decoction of the entire plant well dried and powdered, is given for jaundice in doses of 5 grams a day.
Campbell of the Imperial Light Infantry, and being much shaken I was obliged to hand over command of my guns to poor Steel who was only just recovering from jaundice and had to trek off at 3 p.
We all came to the conclusion that we were rather sick of campaigning if accompanied by jaundice and other ills of the flesh.
When, after the signs and symptoms of gastro-duodenal catarrh have declared themselves, jaundice appears, there can be no question as to the nature of the case.
From the appearance of the jaundice up to the onset of severe symptoms the time has varied from two weeks to several months, but has rarely exceeded three months.
With the jaundice the pulse declines, but in the further progress of the case, especially toward the close, the pulse becomes rapid and small.
Yellowness of the conjunctiva and of those parts of the body exposed to the air is the first manifestation; afterward the jaundice hue becomes general.
As was shown by Hilton Fagge, xanthelasma occurs more especially in the milder cases of catarrhal icterus that had been protracted in duration, but it is also occasionally seen in the jaundice of obstruction.
The modern view of haematogenous jaundicehad its origin in the supposed discovery of the identity of haematoidin with bilirubin.
George Harley[132] maintains the singular doctrine that acute yellow atrophy is only the "sporadic form of the contagious jaundice of the tropics," or yellow fever.
It rests on two facts: the existence of a case of jaundice in which the ducts and gall-bladder contain no bile, but only ordinary mucus; the appearances presented by a liver in a case of jaundice due to obstruction of the common duct.
If the pigment of the blood has the same composition as the pigment of the bile, haematogenous jaundice will be produced whenever haematoidin is set free in the blood.
Without the occurrence of fever, catarrhal jaundicemay come on during the course of chronic malarial poisoning.
The skin is commonly pale and dry, and before jaundice is {1125} developed has the ordinary sallow hue of cancerous cachexia.
The brilliant orange of his jaundice faded to lemon, and the lemon to a sallow tint that cleared rapidly as it was flooded by his flush.
As in the jaundice it is necessary, that the bile should first be secreted by the liver, and re-absorbed into the circulation, to produce the yellowness of the skin; as was formerly demonstrated by the late Dr.
This kind of jaundice is not generally attended with pain, neither at the extremity of the bile-duct, where it enters the duodenum, nor on the region of the gall-bladder.
Jaundice from paralysis of the bile-ducts cured by electric shocks.
We have observedjaundice of the various tissues but very rarely.
Jaundice is then merely a symptom of disease and ought to direct attention to ascertaining, if possible, the cause or causes which have given rise to it.
When jaundice exists, there is a yellow appearance of the white of the eyes and of the mucous membrane of the mouth.
The conditions under which jaundice most commonly calls for treatment are when cattle have been highly fed and kept in a state of inactivity.
It is certainly very remarkable that we have so many cases of arsenical poisoning where the jaundice shows itself: we have eruption of those same parts of the duodenum according with arsenical poisoning.
The jaundice I saw was quite consistent that he was labouring under a bilious attack, and could easily be accounted for that way.
I knew a case of apparent jaundice arising from a cake of yellow soap.
I am not so certain that jaundice is a symptom of arsenical poisoning.
You never saw jaundice as a symptom of arsenical poisoning?
On re-examination by the Lord Advocate, he repeated that from his reading and study he knew jaundice to be an occasional symptom of arsenical poisoning.
When he observed the first aggravation of the disease he recorded that "the liver plainly showed traces of hard knots, the jaundice increased.
The attack of jaundice may have been an arant-courier of the disease of the liver which brought him to the grave six years later.
Jaundice is merely a symptom of a disease and ought to direct attention to ascertain if possible the cause or causes which give rise to it.
He was so much relieved as to be able to come down stairs and to walk about, but his want of appetite and jaundice continuing, and his debility increasing, he died in about two months.
He had continued free from dropsy until within the last six weeks; his appetite was now totally gone, his strength extremely reduced, and the yellow of his jaundicechanged to a blackish hue.
The jaundice soon afterwards vanished, and tonics restored him to perfect health.
Jaundice and ascites, the consequences of great intemperance.
No less remarkable is the following saying: 'In jaundice it is a grave matter if the liver becomes indurated.
Jaundice is a common and comparatively trivial symptom following or accompanying a large variety of diseases.
In simple cases of jaundice the neutral salts have seldom produced much good effect; but I have obtained considerable success from the diascordium, in doses of half a drachm to a drachm.
The jaundice which is not accompanied with fever, nor indeed with any morbid change but the colour of the skin, will require very little treatment.
A case of the good effect of electricity in the jaundice is related in Sect.
The reasons, which induce me to suspect the liver to be first affected, are not only because the jaundice sometimes attends the commencement of gout, as described in Sect.
A fourth cause of jaundice is the compression of the bile-duct by the enlargement of an inflamed or schirrous liver; this attends those who have drank much spirituous liquor, and is generally succeeded by dropsy and death.
In general, fatty substances should be eliminated as much as possible from the nourishment in the case of liver disease, jaundice and gall stones.
Two only had a Jaundice remain after the Fever, and both were cured in a short Time.
When the Jaundice continues obstinate, there is hardly any Thing has often a better Effect than the continued Use of Decoctions of the Juices of succulent Plants, of Whey in the Spring, Soap, and such like Medicines.
Some had Obstructions formed in the Liver or Spleen, or other viscera, and fell into the Jaundice and Dropsies, which carried them off.
See the Case of a Jaundice in Bonetus's Sepulchretum Anatomicum, tom.
To one I ordered a Quart of the pectoral Decoction, made with Parsly Roots instead of the Linseed, to be drunk daily along with the Soap Pills; and the Jaundice disappeared in about eight or ten Days.
Those in whom the Jaundice was the original Disorder, and not complicated with any other, generally got well soon; but where it appeared in dropsical Cases, depending on obstructed Viscera, it was commonly fatal.
In those who were cured by these Remedies, he says, Stones, or a kind of a grumous calculous Matter, were always found in the Stools, as the Jaundicewas going off.
The fruit especially suits persons of a bilious temperament, being "a surprising remedy for the jaundice of children, and particularly helping the liver of pot companions, wetters, and drammers.
Incidentally with respect to the yelk of an egg, as prescribed here, it is an established fact that patients have been cured of obstinate jaundice by taking a raw egg on one or more mornings while fasting.
Its fresh root is bitter, and a milky juice flows from the rind, which is somewhat aperient and slightly sedative, so that this specially suits persons troubled with bilious torpor, and jaundicecombined with melancholy.
Gerard says: "The decoction openeth the stoppings of the liver, and spleen: and is singular good against the jaundicewhich is of long continuance.
In Germany it is very popular for curing jaundice and kindred biliary derangements.
Wormwood tea, or the powdered herb in small doses, mixed in a little soup, will serve to relieve bilious melancholia, and will help to disperse the yellow hue of jaundice from the skin.
