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in apoplexy of the cow. So indigestion produces coma in 
the cow and convulsions in children, but it remains indigestion. 
Dr. Butler has been extremely unfortunate in his observations 
regardingconvulsions in apoplexy of cows, and is led to doubt 
the assertions of Fleming and Franck that they do occur, and 
seeks to have us believe that veterinarians who have reported 
convulsions do not know the difference between convulsions 
and delirium. 
There are many careful observers who fully agree with 
Franck and Fleming. In several cases we have observed irre¬ 
ducible polapsus of the uterus in apoplexy of cows, and we 
can certainly attribute the violent and insurmountable expul¬ 
sive efforts not to delirium but to convulsions only. 
He next attempts to prove the non-identity of the two af¬ 
fections by reference to the pulse, which ranges from ioo to 140 
beats per minute in eclampsia ol woman, while he would have 
us believe it is slow and weak in apoplexy in the cow. He 
takes his figures from one in convulsions, the other in coma. 
In woman in convulsions there is an increase of pulse rate of 
25 and 75 per cent.: while Franck* records that in apoplexy 
in cows running a convulsive course, the pulse rate is increased 
100 to 110 per cent., and it must be admitted that to make the 
comparison relevant we must select analogous cases. 
In comparing the urinary secretion, he concluded that in 
eclampsia it is suspended, in apoplexy abundant; but a careful 
perusal of his own statements shows that they are utterly con¬ 
tradictory, and that whereas it happens that the woman has 
urinated shortly before the attack and evacuated the bladder, 
the cow has failed to do so, hence the bladder is somewhat 
distended, and once the symptoms are established, the secre¬ 
tion of urine ceases, the empty bladder of the woman 
remains empty and the full bladder of the cow remains 
full— but neither has marked additions to its contents during the 
disease. 
After admitting an elevation of temperature in the early 
stages of apoplexy in the cow, Dr. Butler again does violence 
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