parturient eclampsia and parturient apoplexy. 491 
to his own assertions by remarking that “Veterinarians are 
equally unanimous that in cows with parturient apoplexy 
the temperature is lower than normal or at least that it is not 
elevated.” To what veterinarians does he refer when he 
admits the opposite himself, and Fleming and Franck, respect¬ 
ively the highest English and German authors on veterinary 
obstetrics, distinctively state that there is an elevation of tem¬ 
perature in certain cases and in certain stages. 
What more can be said of eclampsia in woman ? Fleming 
and Franck aver that during convulsions in cows the tempera- 
tui e is elevated, during coma lowered. Human writers 
say that in parturient eclampsia there is elevation of tempera¬ 
ture during convulsions , depression of body heat during coma. 
Dr. Butler emphatically asks “ Will Dr. Williams please in¬ 
form us of a single example of disease affecting women and cows , 
known to be due to the same causes and possessing similiar patholog¬ 
ical lesions, where this difference in temperature is admitted ? 
Certainly. ' 
Take acute indigestion, it may cause convulsion in puppies, 
delirium in the horse, coma and depression of the body tem¬ 
perature in the cow, headache and fever in woman, all due to 
ingestion of food of improper quality or quantity, or at im¬ 
proper times. 
In asking this emphatic question, as well as in his discus¬ 
sion of the question of temperature generally, Dr. Butler has 
wholly ignored the generally accepted theories of body heat, 
founded upon physiological research and clinical observation. 
We admit that eclampsia of woman is characterized mainly by 
convulsions and parturinet apoplexy of cows by coma , but eclamp¬ 
sia produces coma in some stages, and in cow apoplexy convul¬ 
sions, as we have shown above. 
We have also shown, by the best attainable authority, in¬ 
cluding Dr. Butler, that during convulsions in cow apoplexy 
we have fever, and during convulsions of eclampsia we have 
fever. It is equally certain and rests upon undoubted au¬ 
thority that during coma in eclampsia of woman and apoplexy 
of cow we have a lowering of body temperature. Dr. Butler 
insists, however, that the temperature of a woman in convul- 
