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ceases, the breathing ceases also, and the patient is presently 

 dead." 



Under this head we must of course include many of the 

 cases of parturition fever, or dropping after calving in cows, 

 due to overfeeding and to a sudden accumulation of blood 

 in the system on the birth of the young animal, which has 

 largely drained the cow's system, and averted, up to the 

 period of the expulsion from the uterus, a fatal accumula- 

 tion of blood in the cerebro-spinal system. I have referred 

 at length to this disease under the head Enzootic Disorders ; 

 and some of the cases in cattle due to drinking " burnt ale/' 

 referred to under Phrenitis, may be pure instances of cere- 

 bral apoplexy. 



Our knowledge of cerebral apoplexy in the horse is 

 limited. It is not a common disease ; and by far the best 

 case of the kind on record was published in the 3d volume 

 of the " Edinburgh Veterinary Eeview," by Mr Parker of 

 Birmingham, who says : 



" On Thursday, March 7, 1 was called in to see an aged 

 bay gelding, the property of the Great Western Eailway 

 Company, and from the foreman I was able to glean the 

 following history of the horse, up to this date. 



" He was bought about five years ago, and was ill for a long 

 time with influenza, but never seriously affected. He was 

 put to work in due course, and beyond being rather bad- 

 tempered, and, as the man said, ' curious in his ways/ there 

 had been nothing to call for any remark till about the 1st 

 of March this year, when he refused his food and became 

 very stupid. This stupidity increased daily till the 6th, 

 when he was sent to Birmingham by train from Leaming- 

 ton, at which station he had been working for two years. 

 He now became paralysed, and was disinclined to move 

 forwards, though he backed readily, and was conscious of 



