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down, comatose, and I had no hopes of her recovery. The 
owner secured a quantity of the drug, and gave it to his cow 
as directed, and to my surprise he reported his cow much 
better the next day and she made a good recovery. I have 
now treated three cases with this remedy, two of which 
recovered. 
Dr. Edwards: I have done my part toward killing several 
cases of this disease. I find that when the cow is comatose, 
and 1 hold her head up and pour the medicine into her mouth, 
I have been deceived in thinking she had swallowed it, but 
instead, all or a part finds its way down the trachea and the 
animal soon dies of suffocation. It is now my habit to intro¬ 
duce the medicine into the stomach through a probang, and 
I have a better per cent, of recoveries. 
Dr. Thomas: I know several practitioners who use stimu¬ 
lants in these cases and give eight ounces of whiskey and 
eight ounces of spirits of nitrous ether as a dose. This treat¬ 
ment has failed with me. 
Dr. Platt: I cannot accept Dr. Brown’s theory that par¬ 
turient apoplexy is due to anaemia of the brain. If it was due 
to plugging of the vessels with emboli, whv do cases often re¬ 
cover so rapidly and completely? Surely the emboli are not 
readily dissolved and the obstructed circulation made normal 
again. I am satisfied that the brain trouble is due to conges¬ 
tion of the brain. The last case I had I treated with large 
doses of ergot with satisfactory results, and I shall try it in 
the next case. 
Dr. G. A. Johnson: I find it a difficult thing to secure 
purgation with salts in these cases. I know that croton oil 
will purge, for a quack doctor in my community gave a case 
of this disease an ounce of the oil at night and gave seven 
ounces in the morning. The cow died from superpurgation. 
Prof. Stalker called to mind a case of parturient apoplexy 
about which a farmer consulted him. He said: “The cow 
was down. I prognosed death, but advised a purgative, as 
they sometimes recovered after such a dose. A neighbor 
bled the cow, the cow recovered without the purgative dose. 
It is quite probable that some cases will recover without 
