PARTURIENT ECLAMPSIA AND PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 495 
on human obstetrics* positively assert that eclampsia causes 
the labor—a condition not unknown in apoplexy in cows. 
And even the writer, only a few lines below, virtually admits 
that eclampsia in women causes parturition by asserting that 
the disease in pregnant women is followed by parturition in 
almost every case, and follows up this strong assertion by 
quoting Depaul as saying that not less than 93 per cent, of 
eclampsia cases in women occur prior to delivery, so that b)' 
his own reasoning surely difficult labor in women is rarely 
followed by eclampsia—a condition fully analogous to that 
observed in cows. 
He then ventures to state that fully 99 per cent, of cases 
of apoplexy in the cow occur at from 12 to 48 hours after 
birth, and strongly intimates again that other veterinarians have 
erred in their diagnosis regarding the other possible one per 
cent. Again we would repeat that the positive evidence 
of reliable observers who record the disease before parturition 
cannot well be wholly destroyed by Dr. Butler’s failure to see 
identical cases. 
I never saw a case ol cystic calculus in the horse, yet I be¬ 
lieve it occurs. His figures above quoted (99 per cent, of 
cases between 12 and 48 hours after birth) also seem very 
strong in the absence of positive data to support it. 
Franck f records 123 cases in which 22, or 18 per cent., oc¬ 
curred inside of 12 hours, and 30 cases, or 25 percent., beyond 
Dr. Butler’s maximum time, thus placing 43 per cent, of cases 
outside of the limits in which Dr. Butler would have 99 per 
cent - if not all, occur, and yet he fails to furnish data to uphold 
his position. 
It is further attempted to show the non-identity between 
eclampsia of woman and cow apoplexy by the fact that the 
former predisposes to post partum hemorrhage, but this logic 
seems destroyed by the equally evident fact that post partum 
hemorrhage is common in woman and unknown (except from 
wounds) in the cow. J 
* Yid. Barnes, System of Obstetrics, 
f Franck’s Leburtschilfe S. 451, 
t Vic. Franck’s Leburtschilfe S. 196. 
