APOPLEXY IN A PREGNANT HEIFER. 
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blood-vessels congested; pulse 60, and strong; breathing 
stertorous; tympany of the rumen ; when made to stand she 
stood with legs wide apart, staggered a few paces and fell; 
body and extremities deathly cold. 
Although entertaining no hopes of her recovery I gave a 
strong cathartic drench, abstracted blood, and stimulated the 
region of the spine. I saw her again on the 16 th, when I 
found her completely paralysed. All motion and sensation 
were entirely gone. I therefore had her destroyed. 
On examination I found all the viscera healthy, with the 
exception of the liver, which was softened, and light in colour. 
On examining the brain, I found an effusion of serum had 
taken place, in quantity about an ounce and a half. The 
pia mater was greatly congested, some parts being perfectly 
black. The vessels of the spinal marrow were also con¬ 
gested, particularly along the cervical vertebrae. 
The weather being extremely hot at the time, I considered 
that it might have been something like “ sun-stroke” in the 
human subject. 
[We are indebted for the above case to the Hon. L. H. 
King Harman, Newcastle, Ballymahon, Ireland; it having 
been drawn up by his desire for publication in the Veterinarian . 
We consider it a very interesting one of active cerebral con¬ 
gestion occurring in association with pregnancy. It is a well 
established fact, that cows after parturition are exceedingly 
susceptible of apoplectic attacks, which, as may be expected, 
in by far the greater number of instances produce death in 
the course of a few hours. These attacks are most rife in the 
summer months, especially when a high temperature prevails, 
and we have occasionally seen them come on even before the 
foetus has been expelled from the uterus; facts which show 
the liability of the ox tribe, under such circumstances, to 
these affections of the brain. What pregnancy may have had 
to do in the production of the attack, in the present instance, 
is difficult to determine, but we incline to the opinion that it 
was not totalty inoperative. 
The feeding, kind of food, and general management of the 
animal are, however, not less potent for mischief, more 
especially when they are associated with exposure to a high 
temperature, and on these probably this attack depended. 
The pathology of the case is very clear, and the symptoms 
were unmistakeable from the commencement.] 
