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In individual cases other measures are indicated. When the 

 udder has reached an enormous size and development, and is 

 gorged with milk, days before parturition, it may be syste- 

 matically milked. The irritation in the gorged gland is quite as 

 likely to induce premature parturition, as in milking, and, at the 

 worst, the result is not so bad as an attack of parturition fever. 



Basing his advice on the fact that parturition fever does not 

 follow a case of severe dystokia, Cagny applies sinapisms on the 

 loins, croup and thighs of a fleshy, plethoric, heavy milking, 

 parturient cow. Proof of their efficacy is not obtainable. 



Felizet advises leaving the calf with its dam for one week. 

 Kohne doses the cow with nux vomica : Harms, with tartar 

 emetic. 



In view of the probability of a bacterial infection the cow 

 should be taken to a clean, pure, well-aired stable a day or two 

 befbre calving, having been first cleansed from adherent filth, 

 and sponged all over with a 4 per cent, solution of carbolic acid. 



To prevent diffusion of infection Bournay recommends anti- 

 septic injection of the womb immediately after calving. Bis- 

 sauge adds that the stable Should be disinfected after every case 

 of parturition fever, the manure carefully removed and the 

 ground scraped and well watered with a disinfectant. 



Eor fleshy, plethoric, predisposed cows, the distension with 

 air or gas of the udder should be applied immediately after calv- 

 ing. Or the udder should be left unmilked and gorged with its 

 own secretion for twenty-four hours after calving. These meas- 

 ures are incomparably more effective than all others quoted 

 above. 



Treatment. With the state of plethora and congestion about 

 the head in the early stages the question oif bleeding at once arises. 

 If early enough while there is a full bounding pulse, and as 

 yet no sign of great loss of muscular control it is often very bene- 

 ficial, as much as 6 quarts or more being withdrawn. It is well 

 however to avoid cording the neck, which must increase the vas- 

 cular tension in the brain, and to trust rather to digital com- 

 pression of the vein. The blood should be drawn from a large 

 opening in a full free stream, and may be stopped when the pulse 

 softens. In the more advanced condition, with paralysis and more 

 or less dulling of the senses, or coma, bleeding may be dangerous 



