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Translations and Reviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
Annales de Medecine Veterinaire, Bruxelles, Feb. 1861. 
LAMINITIS CONSEQUENT ON PART (JftlTION. 
This case, reported by M. Guilmot, occurred in a four- 
year-old mare with her first foal. The leading symptoms 
were increased respiration, hot skin, flanks tucked up, the 
feet hot, and bearing the weight on the heels; but the principal 
symptom was the total cessation of the secretion of the miik, 
the mammary gland being full on the previous evening. I his 
was important, inasmuch as, unless the milk could be brought 
back into the gland, there would be little chance of combating 
the metastatic congestion of the feet. At the end of four days, 
by rational treatment, the mare was a little better; the fever 
had abated, the feet were less hot, and the weight was borne 
more equally on them. This coincided with a return, though 
in a slight degree, of the milk to the udder. There now 
seemed to be a chance of a favorable result, of which the 
proprietor was duly informed. But it proved deceptive, and 
shows how necessary it is to be guarded in our prognosis. 
M. Guilmot had hardly arrived at home, when a messenger 
followed to inform him that the mare was very bad, and 
before he got to her she w T as dead. She had been suddenly 
seized with heaviness in the head, and an irresistible tendency 
to push against the wall, beating of the flanks, &c. An 
attempt was made to bleed her, when she fell, and died in¬ 
stantaneously. On the post-mortem examination being made, 
all the organs were found healthy, with the exception of the 
brain; the meninges were strongly injected, the veins were 
gorged with blood. Those of the surface of the brain were 
ruptured in several places by the intensity of the congestion, 
and the ventricles were filled with blood. These lesions were 
sufficient to explain the suddenness of the catastrophe. The 
malady seemed to have changed by metastasis from one part 
to another. 
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