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or less fetor appears. Breathing quickened, temperature elevated, 
pulse accelerated, drawn up in flanks, and pain on pressure in 
that region. Symptoms come on in from one to five days after 
foaling. An examination per vagina, finds the womb placcid, 
hot to the touch, and containing some liquid or semi-liquid 
material. In some cases the inflammatory process extends to 
the feet, and the animal is very stiff and sore from inflamed 
laminae tissue. 
Treatment .—First with the hand or a sponge take all foreign 
material from the uterus. Then inject lukewarm water contain¬ 
ing one teaspoonful of carbolic acid to a quart of water; this to 
be repeated two or three times a day. When the feet are af- 
fected, cold applications locally are indicated, and sacks con¬ 
taining ice bandaged on the feet act nicely. In cases where the 
discharges are very fetid, I have used permanganate solution in 
place of carbolic acid, with good results. Administer internally 
quinine or cinchonoid solution to allay fever, and, when animal 
seems very weak, give alcohol or spirits of nitrous ether in 
drinking water. 
Parturient Eclampsia in Mare. —Comparatively seldom 
seen, and then not always recognized. 
Symptoms resemble quite closely those of tetanus. They are 
shown in from two or three weeks to as many months after 
foaling ; usually when the surroundings of the mare are changed, 
as when taken from pasture and put at work, or shut up in some 
strange place with the colt, the worry seeming to be an impor¬ 
tant factor in the cause. The symptoms, while like those of 
tetanus, will admit of some distinction. It will run a more defi¬ 
nite course ; the jaws are never as closely set as in acute tetanus. 
The muscular contractions and consequent phenomena at the 
eye are not nearly so apparent, and, in fact, the muscular con¬ 
tractions generally over the body are not as tonic as in acute 
tetanus, and an acute attack of tetanus is the form eclampsia 
most resembles. 
Treatment .—Free blood-letting, about two gallons, varied 
with the size of animal, followed by large and repeated doses 
