DISEASES IMMEDIATELY CONNECTED WITH PARTURITION. 1 63 



pression of milk, constipation, ultimately coma, tympany, deli- 

 rium and death. 



Treatment. — Early venesection, counter-irritation at the 

 back of the head and along the spine, stimulants and aperi- 

 ents. The head should be kept in an elevated position, to 

 prevent determination of blood as much as possible ; the 

 urine and faeces are frequently retained by reason of the pro- 

 gressive paralysis : in such cases the former should be drawn 

 off with the catheter, and the latter removed as well by ene- 

 mas as aperients. It is also advisable to repeatedly withdraw 

 the milk, by natural means if possible, if not, by artificial aid. 



PARTURIENT ECLAMPSIA. 



A canine malady resembling the eclampsia of the human 

 being has been observed by continental veterinarians ; but I 

 fail to see that it bears any analogy to parturient apoplexy 

 proper. 



" Mauri " (Fleming's " Obstetrics," p. 673) " relates that 

 a bitch, four years old, and which had been ill since the pre- 

 vious evening, was sent to the Toulouse Veterinary School. Fif- 

 teen days previously it had given birth to four puppies, which 

 it suckled. That morning, about three o'clock, its owner 

 was awoke by its plaintive cries and its restlessness. It was 

 then anxious, its mouth was open, and It breathed as if it had 

 been running fast on a hot day ; it also appeared to be weak 

 in its hind-parts. On its arrival at the school, it was lying on 

 its side in a large hamper, with its four puppies, which were at 

 the teat ; the respiration was very hurried, short, irregular, 

 and noisy; itwas executed in a jerking, irregular manner ; 

 the ribs appeared to be limited in their movements, as in a 

 horse affected with tetanus. The mouth was half open, the 

 tongue pendent, and the saliva flowing in a frothy, abundant 

 stream. The animal convulsively closed its jaws, and with- 



