PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 
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will refer to notes on two or three cases which have come 
under mv notice. 
The first subject was a grade Durham, six or seven years 
old, in good flesh and in the sixth month of gestation. I found 
her lying on the ground ; would occasionally make an unsuc¬ 
cessful effort to get up, but had no power in the hind legs ; 
part of the time would lie out full length on the ground and 
part of the time up in a natural position, with head thrown 
around to side, and pay little or no attention to her surround¬ 
ing's. The owner told me that when she came in from the 
pasture in the evening he noticed her stagger from side to 
side with her hind parts ; seemed nervous and gave no milk; 
that during the night went down and in the morning was as 
1 found her. The abdomen was somewhat distended, and the 
unmistakable indigestion grunt told the story. The next 
case was a grade Jersey in fair condition for the time of year, 
(January). Had been giving milk some months and was a 
good milker. The owner said he had changed the feed a few 
days before from timothy and clover mixed, to wild hay, of 
which she seemed at first very fond, but that on this day she 
had suddenly failed in her milk and would not eat. The 
bowels were constipated, rumen filled with solids, head ele¬ 
vated and eyes staring. Was on her feet, but was weak and 
almost fell down when we attempted to drench her ; also 
manifested decided difficulty in swallowing. By morning 
my patient was down, head thrown to the side, comatose 
and eyes amaurotic; bowels remained inactive and case died 
in the evening A third case, a full blood Jersey, was taken 
from pasture to our county fair ground for exhibition and put 
on strictly dry feed ; the bowels became inactive, stomach im¬ 
pacted and when I first saw her, was down, full length on the 
ground, and exhibiting every symptom of parturient apo¬ 
plexy, although she had been fresh several weeks. Here now 
are three, and I can recall several more similar cases of par¬ 
turient apoplexy side-tracked and several months delayed. 
Every practitioner will recall many cases where, when 
treating cattle for indigestion, the stomach was in such an ir¬ 
ritable condition that the administration of a dose of salts or 
