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Treatment to be continued. 
May 1st. — Still about the same, pulse 80, and soft, appe- 
tite improved, and bowels moved. 
Treatment repeated. 
2nd. — Pulse 65, fuller and stronger, respirations quiet, 
appetite vigorous, can walk around the box freely, and has 
passed three pints of urine at one time. 
Medicine discontinued. Ordered the poppy head injec- 
tions to be continued, and to put the foal to her. 
7th. — Great improvement, with full secretion of milk. 
14th. — Discharged convalescent. Ordered her to be turned 
out to grass with the foal three or four hours daily. 
Both have continued to do well. 
I have been induced, Mr. Editor, to forward this case for 
publication, as it has been exceedingly interesting to me, and 
I thought it might be of some interest to the profession, 
because so few cases, and those not successful (so far as I am 
aware), have been recorded. 
I shall be glad to hear of other cases successful or other- 
wise. 
I hope it will not be at the risk of a charge of needless 
prolixity that I have given the details at full length, as I 
humbly believe that nothing was done which should have 
been left undone, and that every measure used contributed 
to the satisfactory conclusion of an anxious and critical 
case. 
PARTURIENT APOPLEXY IN A SOW. 
By W. Hamley, Penzance, M.R.C.Y.S. 
Should you deem the following case worthy of an inser- 
tion in the Veterinarian it is at your service. I should not 
have sent it you had not my memory, by its occurrence, 
called to mind the statement of a student whilst a group 
of us were discussing the treatment, &c., of the disease, 
to the effect that he had seen two well-marked cases of the 
disease in the sow. I sincerely trust that the individual who 
communicated the information has long since learnt not to 
despise so humble a patient for treatment. 
On July 30th, 1869, I was requested to attend a sow, the 
property of Mr. J. C. Osborne, of Trevorian, distant from 
here about four miles. 
Symptoms . — She was lying full length on her right side, 
in a semi-comatose state, breathing heavy, accompanied with 
