JAUNDICE IN CATTLE AND SHEEP.
Usually with gall-stones or concretions, or distomata. In sheep from decomposing vegetation. Symptoms: anæmia, emaciation, pallor, icteric mucosæ. Digestive disorder and bilious stools suggest worms. Treatment: as in horse, or vermifuge.
Though less common than in the dog icterus in ruminants occurs, but most commonly in connection with gall stones and concretions, or with trematodes in the gall ducts. These forms will be noticed under these respective headings. Verheyen describes an icterus of sheep which occurs enzootically in damp low undrained localities, and is attributed by shepherds to the consumption of dead and fermenting leaves. The symptoms are those of anæmia, emaciation, and increasing weakness, with a pallor and more or less dull yellow of the conjunctiva, and, later, of the other mucosæ. The loss of appetite, indigestion, yellow liquid fæces, suggest the possible presence of parasites as a cause, and the prescribed treatment by common salt, juniper berries and tonics strengthens the suspicion. Other forms must be treated according to cause on the lines laid down above.