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and judging from the correspondence it has evoked, we have not 
erred in giving it the attention it has received at our hands. We 
consider the decision to have been a mistake and to embody a 
wrong interpretation of our calling, and that it has given rise to 
an erroneous judgment, but whether it is expedient for the pro¬ 
fession or its organs to take any further action in the matter, is a 
question that we do not at present feel able to answer. If the 
profession wishes the Review to take the steps suggested in Dr. 
Pendry’s letter, we have only to say that the Review is the ser¬ 
vant of the profession, and will always be found ready to exhaust 
its endeavors in behalf of the common interest. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 
By Geo. Bridges, D.V.S. 
(A paper read before the Connecticut Veterinary Medical Association.) 
Mr. President and Gentlemen : 
The subject I am to present to-night to you for consideration 
is one that has for years perplexed our professional brethren, and, 
I am sorry to say, we are not much nearer to a solution of the 
question than were our predecessors. We fail to glean much from 
authors as to its etiology, consequently we are at sea as to its 
treatment. 
Parturient apoplexy or milk fever, as it is commonly and er¬ 
roneously called, is met with mostly in the bovine species. Some 
breeds of cattle are more subject to it than others, and I never 
remember seeing a case in the equine species, but there are, I be¬ 
lieve, some few cases on record. The majority of my cases have 
been among the high-bred Jersey, very few among the common 
grades. Beef cattle are rarely ever affected with it. Holsteins, 
although enormously large milkers, can record but few cases. 
Parturient apoplexy is without doubt, one of our greatest bug¬ 
bears in practice, especially in the rural districts. Writers upon 
