646 
J. E. BROWN. 
“ In some cases the nose rests firmly upon the ground, 
and if the head is lifted up falls back like some lifeless body; 
at other times the head is brought back to the side, where it 
remains pressed against the shoulder or neck. There is often 
a disposition to lie upon the side with the neck and limbs ex¬ 
tended, the eyes glassy and the mouth open ; tympanitis sets 
in and the cow will die in a very short time. The cow may 
remain in this condition for some hours, providing it is made 
to lie, by packing, in the natural position on the sternum, 
evincing but few signs of life except the act of breathing, 
which is generally stertorous. Now and then there is emit¬ 
ted a gurgling sound of gas and fluid regurgitated from the 
rumen. In some instances the symptoms of delirium are 
very violent; the animal struggles violently, dashes its head 
about, bellows, groans and strains violently ; very shortly the 
abdomen becomes tympanitic, and the breathing more 
labored and difficult. There are eructations of foetid gases 
from the rumen, and death supervenes. In some instances 
the bowels may be relaxed in the earlier stages; this is, how¬ 
ever, soon succeeded by non-excretion, either of fasces or 
urine.” 
Now 1 must say if I were called upon to write up the 
symptomatology of acute indigestion I think I could do but 
little better than copy the above. So far as I have seen, all 
authors, in both human and veterinary medical literature, 
describe the pulse as quick and weak in cerebral apoplexy, 
whilst in parturient apoplexy it is universally agreed among 
practitioners that the pulse is slow and weak. As the deliri¬ 
um comes on and the animal struggles about, or with diffi¬ 
culty keeps upon her feet, the pulse is somewhat quickened 
by the increased exertion, but as she sinks into coma the 
pulse falls in number of beats and in violence and force, grad¬ 
ually becoming less and less perceptable until death. 
There is certainly no other disease upon which the line of 
treatment has been so diversified. One man treats it with 
powerful cathartics, another with stimulants, another by 
venesection and sedatives, and so it goes, but basing our line 
of treatment upon our theory of cause and effect, we see 
