538 THE PRACTICE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



^specially over the sj^inal column, will be of benefit. 

 Counter-irritants may also be used with advantage over the 

 region of the sj^inal column. A liniment of a strongly 

 stimulating character, or even a vesicant, may be used. 

 The patient should be kept propped up on her sternum, 

 with the head elevated above the rest of the body; and 

 her position should be changed every hour or so. 

 Full doses of potassae bromidi may be given frequently, and 

 probably has a better effect than any other medicinal agent 

 that can be used in the treatment of this disease. Great 

 care should be exercised in the administration of medicines, 

 as when the animal is in a comatose condition any draught 

 that may be administered will be likely to enter the trachea 

 and cause death. Hence the stomach-pump should be used 

 to give draughts, or the medicine should be given sub- 

 cutaneously. If tympanites puts in an appearance, the 

 trocar and canula may be used to relieve the condition, 

 and a suitable draught given to prevent its recurrence. A 

 cow, after having suffered once from parturient apoplexy, 

 becomes more susceptible to the disease than one that has 

 never had an attack. 



PARTURIENT PARALYSIS. 



Paralysis occasionally follows parturition, usually making 

 its appearance within two or three days after the birth of 

 the young animal, and usually cannot be considered as a 

 very serious condition. 



Symptoms. — The patient on being made to walk is 

 observed to be unsteady in gait, perhaps staggers from 

 side to side, and has what is known as a paddling gait. This 

 symptom is well marked ; soon the animal, no longer able 

 to stand, falls, loss of motor power becoming better marked 

 than ever. The patient, when down, is unable to rise, but 

 pain does not seem to be an accompanying symptom, and 



