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CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



blisters — mustard paste or flies — to the belly. If no symptoms of pur. 

 gation show themselves in eight or ten hours, inject No. 40 under the 

 skin every half hour till the bowels have moved. If constipation is still 

 obstinate, a pint of tepid water may be injected into a vein. 



USING THE STOMACH PUMP. 

 Manner ot giving medicine or food during stupor. 



Convalescence will be indicated by a return to sensibility, cessation ot 

 pain, purgation, copious secretion of urine of a good color, and a return 

 of strength. When these symptoms are noticed, give No. 19, repeating 

 it three or four times a day. 



IX. Parturient Apoplexy. 



This is a blood disease affecting cows of a plethoric habit at time of 

 calving. It is never seen following difficult or protracted labor, uterine 

 hemorrhage (flooding), abortion, nor the retention of the placenta. There 

 must be a constitutional tendency to congestion of the brain, coma and 

 apoplexy. The first attack is usually fatal : even if not so, the trouble 

 is very likely to recur at the next or some subsequent calving. 



How to know it. — There is at first a staring, wild look about the eyes, 

 disinclination to move, loss of milk, and increased temperature ; but these 

 symptoms are seldom so marked as to attract special notice. They are 

 followed by a staggering gait and weakness across the loins, till suddenly 

 the animal falls, when the ej^es are found to be bloodshot and glassy, the 

 pupils dilated and the lids twitching. The mucous membranes become 

 purple; she gets perfectly blind and comatose (stupid); the head is 

 usually turned back to the side ; the pulse gets gradually slower, fading 

 into imperceptibility ; the breathing is slow and stertorous. In this stage 

 the pupils contract, the temperature falls decidedly, sometimes as low a<» 

 95^, The udder becomes hard and unyielding; the paunch 6lls witb 



