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though we cannot say that it will cause disease in animals 

 which consume it. 



Cases of Parturient Fever, ordinary fever observed 

 after parturition, which present no special features of 

 treatment, must not be confused with parturient apoplexy ; 

 and the latter disease must be carefully distinguished 

 from septic peritonitis, adynamia, and simple metritis. 



Mania pueepeealis is a disease which is occasionally 

 seen a few days after parturition, characterised by extreme 

 excitement, constant champing of the jaws, with gnawing 

 of the surrounding objects, especially the animaFs own 

 fore legs. These symptoms are somewhat similar to those 

 of rabies, but contagion cannot be traced, there is the 

 special relation to parturition, and the attack generally 

 lasts only a short time and yields to the action of opiates. 

 It is attributed to dyspepsia, exposure, and to removal of 

 the calf from the cow. Cases are recorded in the ' Vete- 

 rinary Journal,' vol. ii, p. 17, and vol. ix, p. 13. Mr. 

 Storrar, of Chester, prefers to consider this disease as a 

 form of epilepsy. 



With regard to the Nerves, we can only state that 

 Neueotomy has been performed in the ox as in the horse, 

 the anterior plantar nerves being divided as well as the 

 lateral. The operation is so seldom performed that we 

 need merely allude to it here as having been resorted to 

 successfully. 



In the third volume of the ' Edinburgh Yeterinary 

 Review,' p. 503, is a case of suppose division of the 

 jpneumo gastric nerve in bleeding. Vomition, cough, and 

 atrophy of the left lung resulted. 



Section 2. 



Diseases of the Sympathetic nervous system in the ox 

 do not seem to have been recognised, except in so far as 

 has been already mentioned. (See Parturient Apoplexy.) 



