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CORRESPONDENCE. 
am not willing that the world shall be told without protest that a 
hundred dollars has been given by the Review for a few ramb¬ 
ling notes, written in bad English, on a subjeet which the author 
concedes he knows nothing about. If the disease is a new one to 
the author of the successful paper, he must have had a very 
limited experience in cattle practice, and an equally small ac¬ 
quaintance with the current literature on cattle disease. I have 
no quarrel with the author in question, for he has simply been 
fortunate beyond his deserts, but I believe that the committee 
that made the award failed to appreciate the fact that the donor 
of the prize was entitled to something of value for his money, 
and that the profession had a right to expect that the successful 
paper should be at least an intelligent exposition of some scien¬ 
tific question pertaining to veterinary medicine. As an humble 
member of the profession, I trust our intelligence will not be 
measured by the standard raised by your prize committee. 
Yours very truly, 
A. N. Easterner. 
THERAPEUTIC OF PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 
Trevose, Ea., Nov. 10, 1888. 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
In reading the article by Dr. John Faust on therapeutic re¬ 
view of parturient apoplexy, I was struck by the importance he 
placed on the homoeopathic preparation of tincture aconite and 
belladonna in the cure of that disease. Now the treatment is old. 
Any homoeopathic veterinary book has the treatment he offers in 
it. I have used the treatment as he directs, with a loss of about 
three out of ten cases, but have as good luck from our U. S. P. 
preparations. Now I think the success of the treatment lies in 
the fifteen minute doses, as any one knows if the owner has to 
give medicine every fifteen minutes he can scarcely leave the ani¬ 
mal. And I think it absolutely necessary that the cow is prop¬ 
ped up on brisket, and not allowed to lie on side, and will not 
make any difference what preparation of aconite he uses, if 
he allows her to lie on her side. Now again, suppose he 
is not called in the first stages of the disease, and finds the cow 
