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ferently. But Friend’s statement in 1839, based on his ori- 
ginal memoir that it is an inflammatory affection of the spine, 
hence the name he applied to it of Parturiens Medullitis , has 
certainly not stood the test of experience. Professor Simonds 
discovered, on various occasions, apoplexy and congestion of 
the brain and spinal cord, hence he suggested the name 
Parturient Apoplexy. Most English veterinarians are ac- 
quainted with Mr. Simonds 5 views on the subject. Bragard, 
of Grenoble, Coenraets, of Puers, and Devleeshouwer, of 
Londerzeel, in Belgium, assert, on very good grounds, that 
they have met with apoplectic effusions or congestions of 
the brain and its meninges. M. Festal, again, comes in 
support of Mr. Simonds 5 views, but he recommends copious 
bloodletting, which the latter, and other authorities, discard 
as prejudicial. Some authorities who, like Kohne, have not 
met with the extravasations of blood, have looked on the 
affection as a febrile one, hence the terms Essential and 
Putrid Fevers , adopted respectively by Fischer and Pavese. 
Kohne considers it purely a paralysis. Fischer having, like 
Kohne and others, found the omasum full of dry aliment, 
and, besides this, ecchymoses on the uterus and peritoneum, 
thought the disease partook of the nature of typhus. In- 
flammation of the uterus and peritoneum, as occurring to- 
gether after calving, have been confounded under the same 
head with dropping after calving. Rainard gives us the fol- 
lowing well marked differential symptoms : 
Inflammation of Womb and 
Peritoneum . 
1. Extreme sensibility of 
abdomen on pressure, tym- 
panitis. Subsequently effu- 
sion and dull sound on 
percussion. 
2. The head carried round, 
and eyes staring, on the ab- 
domen, the seat of the disease. 
3. Although the strength 
is lost it is not so much. Mo- 
tion and sensibility retained 
to near the last. 
4. Plaintive cries, anxious 
look, frequent attempts to 
move so as to relieve the 
pain. 
5. Heat of body, thirst. 
Titulary Fever. 
Nothing special with re- 
gard to the abdomen. 
Head depressed, resting by 
the chin on the litter. 
Sudden and rapid loss of 
power. Loss of motion and 
sensation from the time the 
cow has dropped. 
Lying on the sternum and 
belly, or on the side ; motion- 
less, no moans, no move- 
ments. 
Rapidly getting cold. Ab- 
sence of thirst. 
