I22 VETERINARY OBSTETRICS. 
warm clothing; and antiseptic uterine douches. (Creolin 
is highly recommended.) Similar treatment has also 
been successful in the hands of other practitioners. 
Dr. Perley, of St. Albans, Vt. records a number of 
consecutive recoveries from the nux vomica, or strychnia 
treatment. 
When the animal is in an excited condition, it will 
be necessary to have her secured so as to prevent her 
injuring herself. When down and comatose, she should. 
be propped on her sternum, with sacks filled with hay, 
or by some other means, and she should be changed. 
from one side to the other every few hours. When 
convalesence, which is extremely rapid in some cases, 
is established, it is well that the diet should be judiciously 
regulated, and nerve tonics administered for several 
days. 
As this disease is liable to recur at subsequent. 
parturitions, the advisability of breeding again from a. 
Cow is very questionable, unless every precaution is. 
taken previous to the next calving period. 
Eclampsia, 
According to some authorities, this disease, if not 
identical, bears a strong resemblance to eclampsia of 
the human female. 
Eclampsia affects the Cow, Goat, Bitch, and perhaps. 
the Sow. In these animals, convulsions may be looked. 
upon asa constant symptom, simulating to a considerable. 
degree the convulsive or epileptiform attacks in woman. 
Symptoms.—The disease may attack the Cow at any 
age; occasionally prior to, but oftener after the act of 
