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J. E. BROWN. 
Such cases as are here referred to are usually in the very 
highest state of physical condition, with an appetite craving 
food of whatever nature, to the full limit of the capacity of 
the stomach. The organ becomes weakened from its over¬ 
taxation, and with the revolution of the system at time of par¬ 
turition comes the crisis. 
However, plethora is not a constant condition. I now 
call to mind at least three cases which were in low flesh, and 
of these three cases, two were fatal, and from this it will be 
seen that non-plethora neither exempts a subject from an at¬ 
tack nor lessens its fatality. 
On the other hand, out of a large number of cases most 
subject to an attack, by virtue of condition (plethora), age, 
value as milkers, season of year, &c., not only in my own 
practice, but in that of others with whom 1 have had corres¬ 
pondence or conversation on the subject, I have as yet failed 
to hear of a single attack follow where the subject had been 
given a light cathartic, followed by careful attention to the 
dietary a few days before and after parturition. Prof. Wil¬ 
liams says, “ Parturient apoplexy rarely occurs prior to the 
third period of parturition,” but gives two instances succeed¬ 
ing the second calving. I might inform the professor that 
under favorable conditions it might occur after the first, for 
1 saw a case of that kind. A young Jersey that gave birth to 
her first call in the afternoon, during the night got to the 
meal box, and of its contents ate all she desired, and during 
the next forenoon developed a typical case of parturient 
apoplexy. 
The sympathy existing between brain and stomach ; the 
affection of one from the disordered condition of the other in 
all animals and especially in the bovine tribe, is too well known 
and often observed by all members of our profession to need 
special comment here, and if we can have all the symptoms 
of parturient apoplexy in a case of gastric impaction six 
months after parturition, and it is my experience that we do, 
it seems to me we may associate the two diseases very closely 
together. In proof that we do have well developed symp¬ 
toms of parturient apoplexy six months after parturition, l 
