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etc., and a dose of purgative medicine ; give injections ; draw the urine ; 

 turn her from one side to the other ; bed well and make her as comfort- 

 able as possible, and if comatose, put cold water or pounded ice to the 

 head. Tieat the same as sun stroke. A case may recover after being 

 comatose for five or six hours. While comatose you must be careful 

 in giving medicine, for it may pass into the trachea and cause suffo- 

 cation. In such cases, try the stomach pump, or the small tube, and 

 get stimulants into the stomach, or use hypodermic injections of 

 ether, etc. In the early stages give bromide of potassium in pretty 

 large doses ; keep cold to the head, and inject freely with soap 

 and water ; keep her clothed, and attend to the general comfort of 

 the patient. If the animal shows signs of recovery in about twenty- 

 four hours, feed sparingly, and give nux vomica if the nervous system 

 is affected. It is easier prevented than cured, and if a cow is 

 so affected and cured, she is more liable to be affected again, and if 

 in any cow you suspect it, restrict the food before parturition and 

 give one-half or pound of Epsom salts, and give diuretics or hypo- 

 sulphite of soda. This sometimes occurs before parturition, but 

 not often, and is easily prevented. Do not give much food for 

 some time after parturition ; do not even allow her upon luxuriant 

 pasture, but turn upon a poor pasture. Croton oil, calomel, etc., have 

 been recommended, but I do not think they should be used. 



Parturient Paralysis makes its appearance about the third or 

 fourth day after calving, and it is not so serious as apoplexy. The 

 spine is sometimes affected, and sometimes just the large nerves. 

 Loss of power is the principal symptom. There is paddling action ; 

 the animal falls or lies down and can not get up ; perhaps the secre- 

 tion of milk is impaired ; if you prick her with a pin there will be 

 sensation but no motion. Regulate the diet ; give a laxative ; stimu- 

 late the loins with the ammoniacal liniment, mustard, etc. An old 

 and perhaps a good way is to cover the loins with a blanket, and take 

 a warm smoothing iron and rub over the outside. If it continues too 

 long, use the galvanic battery, and, in some cases, afte* live or six 

 days the animal will get up as well as ever. Or she may knuckle at 

 the fetlocks for some time ; then try strychnine, and apply a strych- 

 nine liniment to the loins — but not too much at a time, or you may 

 cause poisoning. 



Mammitis, Inflammation of the Udder, Garget, etc, is inflam- 

 mation of the mammary glands, which may occur with other 

 diseases, as from inflammation of the womb, irritation of the stom- 

 ach. It occurs usually in the milch cow, but it may occur in the 

 heifer. It occurs in two forms, which differ some from each other, 

 but I do not know that the treatment differs much. In one form the 

 skin and membranes under the skin are affected ; in the other, the 

 glandular substance is affected. It may be circumscribed, or it may 

 extend and involve the deep-seated structures. 



Symptoms. — The udder is hard, hot and tender, and is accompanied 

 by constitutional fever, which is, in many cases, ushered in by shiv- 

 ers ; the animal begins to breathe rapidly, and you might think it was 

 some disease of the respiratory organs ; the pulse is quickened ; the 

 appetite more or less impaired, and cessation of rumination ; the 

 bowels may be constipated, or there may be diarrhoea, but the febrile 

 state of the system is apt to produce constipation. But some irritant 

 may be present, and may have had something to do in causing the dis- 

 ease. When this disease involves the deep-seated structures, suppu- 



