APOPLEXY IN CATTLE. 
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and night, and also on the three following days; but whether 
once or twice in the day, the report does not clearly express. 
The horse had been getting better all this while, and on the tenth 
day from the first attack he returned to his work. 
Observations .—This is a marvellous account. I give it to you 
as I find it, and it should have a page in your case books. The 
good effect of bleeding I can well believe, although I should not 
have dared to have carried it to such an extent. I think that I 
should have been satisfied with abstracting forty pounds of blood 
in four hours, without the after and long-continued bleeding from 
the tail: but, as to the opium, I must agree with M. Yvart, that 
the effect here attributed to it is contrary to all experience. We 
find that it not unfrequently produces states of the system not 
unlike staggers. When we give it in considerable quantities in 
cases of violent and obstinate diarrhoea, it usually does its duty, 
so far as the mucous membrane of the intestines is concerned, 
but the horse becomes somewhat dull and off his feed. The 
case, however, is worth recording, and you will judge of it as 
you think proper. 
After Treatment .—This must be regulated by circumstances. 
For some time the horse should be put on a restricted diet: mashes 
—green meat in no great quantity—a moderate allowance of hay 
—little corn. When sufficiently recovered, he may be turned 
out with advantage on rather bare pasture. 
Liability to return .—One circumstance, however, should never 
be forgotten, that the horse that has once been attacked wdth 
staggers is liable to a return of the complaint from causes that 
would not affect another horse. The distended vessels are weak¬ 
ened, the constitution is weakened, and prudence would dictate 
that such a horse could not be too soon disposed of. 
Apoplexy in Cattle. 
Oxen are far more subject to apoplexy than the horse. They 
are naturally more plethoric. They are continually under the 
influence of a more stimulating and forcing system; and that 
without the exercise by means of which the injurious effects of 
this system are in a great measure counteracted. The food of 
the horse is regulated by this consideration, that, while he obtains 
muscular power equal to the work we require from him, there 
shall be no useless accumulation of fat to impede him in that 
work; whereas the very object in the feeding of the ox is to clothe 
him with as much flesh and fat as possible: consequently he is far 
more subject than the horse to all the diseases connected with 
redundancy of blood, and to apoplexy among the rest. 
