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THE INTIMATE PATHOLOGICAL NATURE OF PARTURIENT 
APOPLEXY. 
EX FAOTO JUS ORITUR. 
No subject within the province of bovine pathology has elicited 
so much discussion, or called forth such a diversity of opinion as 
the essential nature of paturient apoplexy. It does not materi¬ 
ally matter what name is applied to a disease, provided such 
designation clearly expresses some requisite feature or pathologi¬ 
cal ingredient of the malady. It is an obvious error—and one 
that might be fraught with dire results—to apply to diseases 
names which may lead to mistaken conceptions of the morbid 
process which constitutes the physical basis of the disorder. 
Practitioners generally accept with too great willingness the 
nomenclature of disease, and thus nartles often become substitutes 
for actual knowledge, and morbid entities escape the grasp of 
clear conception. This fact suggests the great importance of 
correctly naming specific morbid states. The highest end of vet¬ 
erinary medicine is rational and scientific therapeutics. Every 
consideration is subordinate to the consideration of success in 
treatment, and every piece of exact knowledge regarding the 
modus operandi of disease increases the veterinarian’s power of 
influencing morbid action. 
Undoubtedly, the conception which we form to-day of the 
pathogenic'’basis of paturient apoplexy more nearly approximates 
the truth than did the earlier and cruder conceptions which found 
expression in the essentially vague phraseology of paturient 
apoplexy. Both physiological and pathological research have 
contributed much to the elucidation of this otherwise obscure 
subject. And every additional ray of light has only served to 
bring into greater prominence the errors which encumbered origi¬ 
nal hypotheses. What, then, is paturient apoplexy? Formerly, 
apoplexy was always used to signify the train of phenomena 
