commonly known as Dropping after Calving. 
ation of feces. Still it must be borne in mind that the admi- 
nistration of repeated doses of drastic purgatives is not to be 
commended, for it frequently happens that, should a favourable 
change in the symptoms take place, a copious and continuous 
diarrhoea will set in, which will prove fatal to the semi-conva- 
lescent animal, being the result of inflammation of the mucous 
membrane of the stomachs and intestines induced by the medi- 
cine. If any adjunct to the cathartic first administered be 
required, it should consist of enemas often repeated ; a stimu- 
lating one occasionally, but mainly composed of a bland fluid 
like soap and water. 
We take no objection to drawing at the teats, if not too per- 
severingly had recourse to, for such a proceeding does, in our 
opinion, more harm than good, by disquieting the animal by so 
frequently altering her position to get at the mammary glands. 
Milking can only remove the fluid from the reservoirs of the 
glands which had been secreted prior to the attack ; and after- 
wards it can go but little way towards restoring the secretion of 
the mammae when coma has set in. 
As adjuncts to these means, as well as to others yet to be 
named, the animal should be thickly clothed, and every effort 
made to promote warmth of the surface. For this purpose we 
have known warm flat-irons, as used in the laundry, gently passed 
over the body from time to time, to be attended with advantage. 
The legs should also be rubbed with a stimulating liniment, 
such as turpentine and oil in equal quantities, and wrapped in 
warm flannel-bandages. Sinapisms should likewise be applied 
to the abdomen. The spine may be rubbed with a stimulating 
liniment,'^articularly over the region of the back and loins ; 
but the head should be kept cool by the application of cloths 
dipped in cold water. To this extent and to no further should 
the so-called antiphlogistic plan of treatment be adopted. Con- 
trasted with the phlogistic, which consists of the exhibition of 
stimulating agents even from the commencement of the attack, 
experience has shown that it is less successful. 
We may here state that it is of the first importance, nay, 
imperatively necessary, that whatever is given either as medi- 
cine or as a dietetic agent, it should be administered by the 
stomach-pump. Before coma sets in, the power of deglutition 
is impaired, and afterwards it is lost, and even when conscious- 
ness is returning it is barely restored. Fluids poured into the 
mouth will under such circumstances often pass into the wind- 
pipe instead of the stomach. Again and again, in making post- 
mortem examinations, have we found medicine, gruel, &c., in 
the bronchial tubes, and we repeat that many an animal has 
been sacrificed — fatal as may be the disease — to a want of 
precaution in the administration of remedial agents. 
