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of moderate power. It is supposed to be introduced through 

 impure drinking water, diseased grasses, or by breathing an 

 air tainted with decomposing animal matter. In addition to 

 boiling the drinking water, and changing the food or pastur- 

 age, the animal should take — 



Ko. 373. Bisulphite of soda, 



Sulphur, each 2 drachms. 



Give in milk or mixed with meal, once a day, for a week. 



ISILS. FEVER — PTJEEPERAL FEVER -PAIITTJIIIE2TT FEVER — PAEr- 

 TT7RIENT APOPLEXY— METRITIS— INFLAMMATION OF 



THE WOMB. 



Definition. — An inflammation of the lining membrane, 

 substance of, and tissues adjacent to, the womb, occurring 

 after calving, and often accompanied by sudden and marked 

 affections of the brain, congestion of the spinal cord and 

 apoplexy; and ofteu followed by general blood poisoning 

 and death. 



Causes. — These may be injury to the womb in calving, re- 

 tained afterbirth, exposure to colds and chills ; or it may be 

 at times of an epidemic character. A cow who has had it 

 once is pretty certain to have it with her next calf. 



There has been considerable discussion as to whether the 

 disease called "parturient apoplexy" and "milk fever" is 

 identical with that known as inflammation of the womb or 

 metritis. Several very eminent authorities do not think so ; 

 and they explain the congested and inflamed state of the 

 womb, which is found on examination after death by refer- 

 ence to the nearness of the time of its outbreak to calving. 

 But after a careful study of the evidence and the records of 

 cases and post-mortems, the present writer inclines strongly 

 to tlie opinion that the difference is only in respect to the 

 violence of the disease ; a difference very noticeable also in 

 the human species in the different forms of j)uerperal metritis. 



