south of Agra, mainly by bold plundering raids founded two dynasties which still exist at Bharatpur (q.v.) and Dholpur (q.v.). Another branch, settled north-west of Delhi, who adopted the Sikh religion, ultimately made themselves dominant throughout the Punjab (q.v.) under Ranjit Singh, and are now represented in their original home by the Phulkian houses of Patiala (q.v.), Jind (q.v.) and Nabha (q.v.). It is from this latter branch that the Sikh regiments of the Indian army are recruited. The Jāts are mainly agriculturists and cattle breeders. In their settlements on the Ganges and Jumna, extending as far east as Bareilly, they are divided into two great clans, the Dhe and the Hele; while in the Punjab there are said to be one hundred different sections. Their religion varies with locality. In the Punjab they have largely embraced Sikh tenets, while in Sind and Baluchistan they are Mahommedans. In appearance they are not ill-favoured though extremely dark; they have good teeth, and large beards, sometimes stained with indigo. Their inferiority of social position, however, to some extent betrays itself in their aspect, and tends to be perpetuated by their intellectual apathy.
JAUBERT, PIERRE AMÉDÉE ÉMILIEN PROBE (1779–1847),
French Orientalist, was born at Aix in Provence on the
3rd of June 1779. He was one of the most distinguished
pupils of Silvestre de Sacy, whose funeral Discours he pronounced in 1838. Jaubert acted as interpreter to Napoleon in Egypt in 1798–1799, and on his return to Paris held various posts under government. In 1802 he accompanied Sebastiani on his Eastern mission; and in 1804 he was at Constantinople. Next year he was despatched to Persia to arrange an alliance with
the shah; but on the way he was seized and imprisoned in a dry cistern for four months by the pasha of Bayazid. The pasha’s death freed Jaubert, who successfully accomplished his mission, and rejoined Napoleon at Warsaw in 1807. On the eve of Napoleon’s downfall he was appointed chargé d’affaires at Constantinople. The restoration ended his diplomatic career, but in 1818 he undertook a journey with government aid to Tibet, whence
he succeeded in introducing into France 400
Kashmir goats. The rest of his life Jaubert spent in study, in
writing and in teaching. He became professor of Persian in
the collège de France, and director of the école des langues
orientales, and in 1830 was elected member of the Académie
des Inscriptions. In 1841 he was made a peer of France and councillor of state. He died in Paris on the 28th of January, 1847.
Besides articles in the Journal asiatique, he published Voyage en Arménie et en Perse (1821; the edition of 1860 has a notice of Jaubert, by M. Sédillot) and Éléments de la grammaire turque (1823–1834). See notices in the Journal asiatique, Jan. 1847, and the Journal des débats, Jan. 30, 1847.
JAUCOURT, ARNAIL FRANÇOIS, Marquis de (1757–1852),
French politician, was born on the 14th of November 1757 at
Tournon (Seine-et-Marne) of a Protestant family, protected by
the prince de Condé, whose regiment he entered. He adopted
revolutionary ideas and became colonel of his regiment. In
the Assembly, to which he was returned in 1791 by the department
of Seine-et-Marne, he voted generally with the minority,
and his views being obviously too moderate for his colleagues
he resigned in 1792 and was soon after arrested on suspicion of
being a reactionary. Mme de Staël procured his release from
P. L. Manuel just before the September massacres. He accompanied
Talleyrand on his mission to England, returning to
France after the execution of Louis XVI. He lived in retirement
until the establishment of the Consulate, when he entered the
tribunate, of which he was for some time president. In 1803 he
entered the senate, and next year became attached to the household
of Joseph Bonaparte. Presently his imperialist views
cooled, and at the Restoration he became minister of state and a
peer of France. At the second Restoration he was for a brief
period minister of marine, but held no further office. He
devoted himself to the support of the Protestant interest in
France. A member of the upper house throughout the reign of
Louis Philippe, he was driven into private life by the establishment
of the Second Republic, but lived to see the Coup d’état and
to rally to the government of Louis Napoleon, dying in Paris
on the 5th of February 1852.
JAUER, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of
Silesia, 13 m. by rail S. of Leignitz, on the Wüthende Neisse.
Pop. (1900), 13,024. St Martin’s (Roman Catholic) church
dates from 1267–1290, and the Evangelical church from 1655.
A new town-hall was erected in 1895–1898. Jauer manufactures
leather, carpets, cigars, carriages and gloves, and is
specially famous for its sausages. The town was first mentioned
in 1242, and was formerly the capital of a principality embracing
about 1200 sq. m., now occupied by the circles
of Jauer, Bunzlau, Löweberg, Hirschberg and Schönau. From
1392 to 1741 it belonged to the kings of Bohemia, being
taken from Maria Theresa by Frederick the Great. Jauer
was formerly the prosperous seat of the Silesian linen trade,
but the troubles of the Thirty Years’ War, in the course of
which it was burned down three times, permanently injured
this.
See Schönaich, Die alte Fürstentumshauptstadt Jauer (Jauer, 1903).
JAUHARĪ (Abu Nasr Ismaeil ibn Ḥammad ul-Jauhari)
(d. 1002 or 1010), Arabian lexicographer, was born at Fārāb on
the borders of Turkestan. He studied language in Fārāb and
Bagdad, and later among the Arabs of the desert. He then
settled in Damghan and afterwards at Nīshapūr, where he died
by a fall from the roof of a house. His great work is the Kitāb
us-Ṣaḥāḥ fil-Lugha, an Arabic dictionary, in which the words
are arranged alphabetically according to the last letter of the
root. He himself had only partially finished the last recension,
but the work was completed by his pupil, Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm ibn
Ṣāliḥ ul-Warrāq.
An edition was begun by E. Scheidius with a Latin translation, but one part only appeared at Harderwijk (1776). The whole has been published at Tebriz (1854) and at Cairo (1865), and many abridgments and Persian translations have appeared; cf. C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Literatur (Weimar, 1898), i. 128 seq. (G. W. T.)
JAUNDICE (Fr. jaunisse, from jaune, yellow), or Icterus
(from its resemblance to the colour of the golden oriole, of which
Pliny relates that if a jaundiced person looks upon it he recovers
but the bird dies), a term in medicine applied to a yellow coloration
of the skin and other parts of the body, depending in most
instances on some derangement affecting the liver. This yellow
colour is due to the presence in the blood of bile or of some of the
elements of that secretion. Jaundice, however, must be regarded
more as a symptom of some morbid condition previously
existing than as a disease per se.
Cases with jaundice may be divided into three groups.
1. Obstructive Jaundice.—Any obstruction of the passage of bile from the liver into the intestinal canal is sooner or later followed by the appearance of jaundice, which in such circumstances is due to the absorption of bile into the blood. The obstruction is due to one of the following causes: (1) Obstruction by foreign bodies within the bile duct, e.g. gallstones or parasites; (2) inflammation of the duodenum or the lining membrane of the duct; (3) stricture or obliteration of the duct; (4) a tumour growing from the duct; (5) pressure on the duct from without, from the liver or other organ, or tumours arising from them. Obstructions from these causes may be partial or complete, and the degree of jaundice will vary accordingly, but it is to be noted that extensive organic disease of the liver may exist without the evidence of obstructive jaundice.
The effect upon the liver of impediments to the outflow of bile such as those above indicated is in the first place an increase in its size, the whole biliary passages and the liver cells being distended with retained bile. This enlargement, however, speedily subsides when the obstruction is removed, but should it persist the liver ultimately shrinks and undergoes atrophy in its whole texture. The bile thus retained is absorbed into the system, and shows itself by the yellow staining seen to a greater or less extent in all the tissues and many of the fluids of the body. The kidneys, which in such circumstances act in some measure vicariously to the liver and excrete a portion of the
