PARTURIENT ECLAMPSIA AND PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 489 
cattle diseases of any kind, hence not likely to occur in this 
malady. 
Pregnant women have quite frequently some oedema of 
the face, but it is not seen in pregnant cows, and so cannot 
be expected to be present in apoplexy. 
Dr. Butler lays especial stress upon the supposition 
that the milk secretion is not diminished in the early stages of 
eclampsia in woman, whereas it is diminished or suspended in 
cows. To say that this loss of lacteal secretion is not recorded 
in woman is not saying that it continues unabated, and even 
if it is not suspended in woman we fail to see the application of 
his argument, owing to the manifestly great difference in the 
development of the mammary glands in the two classes of 
patients. 
He also states that while amaurosis is a common premoni¬ 
tory symptom of eclampsia in woman, it has not been observed 
during the earlier stage of the disease in cows. He seems to 
have overlooked the fact that Fleming asserts that * “ conges¬ 
tion of the brain appears to be present at the commencement,” 
which evidently includes an amaurotic condition of the eye, 
and the assertion of Franckf that amaurosis occurs earlv. 
•/ 
Amaurosis has, in our clinical experience, been quite constant 
in the earlier stages. 
For the sake of comparison he then cites the train of symp¬ 
toms of eclampsia in woman as delineated by Carpentier, and 
gives essentially those seen in apoplexy of the cow, such as 
livid pallor of face (not distinguishable in cow for evident rea¬ 
sons), rolling of eyes in orbit, dilation of pupil, mouth drawn 
to left side (in cow head drawn to left side), spasmodic move¬ 
ment of jaws, laceration of tongue by teeth (cows do not lac¬ 
erate tongue with teeth in airy disease heretofore described), 
opisthotonos (always observed in cow in latero-recumbent 
position), etc. 
We admit his proposition that eclampsia of woman is char¬ 
acterized mainly by convulsions , while coma is the most marked 
♦Veterinary Obstetrics, p. 645. 
fLeburtshilfe S. 446. 
