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candidates and to authorize them to call themselves veteri¬ 
narians, we would suggest that instead of a board of examin¬ 
ers composed of the members of their own society, these can¬ 
didates should be referred to the faculty of a veterinary 
college, to pass upon their competency and award to them 
the coveted privileges and distinctions. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES, 
THE RELATION OF PARTURIENT ECLAMPSIA OF WOMAN TO 
PARTURIENT APOPLEXY OF THE COW. 
By W. L. Williams. 
The identity or close analogy of parturient eclampsia of 
woman and parturient apoplexy of cows has long been con¬ 
fidently asserted by some observers and as stoutly denied by 
others, and so long as the etiology and pathology of both are 
in a decidedly unsettled state, this difference of view must 
continue. It is not material either that veterinarians should 
believe the two diseases identical except that it broadens our 
field for observation, renders data more reliable and furnishes 
the student with more material for use. 
On page 194 of the current volume of the Review, Dr. Tait 
Butler of the Mississippi Agricultural College takes occasion 
to criticise adversely a suggestion made by me in a paper on 
“ Parturient Eclampsia in the Mare,” that the two above af¬ 
fections are probably either identical or closely allied. 
He first attempts to show that the premonitory symptoms 
of the two affections are wholly dissimilar and contradictory, 
and proceeds to quote from Lusk a train of phenomena seen 
in eclampsia almosLwholly subjective, such as headache and 
loss of memory, which, he leaves us to infer, are not to be ob¬ 
served in the cow. As this class of symptoms cannot be 
traced in the cow, such argument is evidently irrelevant. 
Other premonitory symptoms of eclampsia are noted as 
occurring in woman, which do not ordinarily happen in cattle, 
such as oedema of the face and legs, phenomena rarely seen in 
