PARTURIENT APOPLEXY IN COWS. 
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and I never lose a case of this so-called fatal disease. I con¬ 
sider it useless to torment the animal by pouring down large 
doses of physic. The sympathetic nerve controls secretion 
and excretion, and on that account the physic will not take 
effect until the sympathetic nerve is performing its function; 
and this can only be done by stimulants. The following is 
the treatment I have adopted: 
ft Spt. ether nit., 3 xx 
spt. ammon. aromatic, 5 x 
M. 
Give three ounces at a dose, every half hour, in one pint of 
cold water, until five doses have been given; then, every hour 
until the remainder has been administered. 
Also apply two pounds of mustard, made into a poultice 
with boiling water, along each side of the spinal column, and 
cover with blankets. Keep the animal on its sternum by 
means of bundles of straw. She seems to rest easier in this 
position. Some one should be in close attendance until she is 
better. Usually in from eight to ten hours the animal will be 
able to rise. If the animal has not recovered at the end of 
that time, it will be necessary to give her ten ounces more of 
the same kind of medicine. I have had to do this in a few 
cases. 
In my opinion, the best preventive in this disease is to 
keep the cow in a good, firm, healthy state. This can be 
done by giving the animal good solid food and not too much 
of it. In the spring, when the weather is getting hot and the 
grass long and succulent, keep the cow off such pastures and 
put her in a place where she canjiot get much grass, and feed 
with dry, solid food, as hay, oats or corn. Soft, sloppy diet is 
not good. If the animal is fat, soft and flabby, it would be 
well to give it one and one-half pounds of epsom salts about 
ten days before calving. It is not wise to give it a few hours 
before parturition, as it weakens the animal. This treatment 
I have advised for several years, 1 think with beneficial 
results. 
