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By incising this tumor, one and a half quarts of pus were 
liberated, and immediately thereafter a copious defecation. 
Treatment consisted of clyster of ^ per cent, lysol solution. 
In a second case loss of appetite had existed in a cow for a 
considerable time, finally inducing a cessation of rumination. The 
circumference of the abdomen continued to increase, and by a 
manual examination per rectum, numerous tumors or irregulari¬ 
ties were detected. 
Slaughter was advised, and after death no less than twenty- 
three large sub-peritoneal abscesses were exposed.— D. Th . 
Wochenscrift 27. - 
PUERPERAL PARALYSIS, 
District veterinarian Rasberger was called to see a cow;,, 
unable to rise, which had calved six hours before. A subcuta¬ 
neous injection of grains veratine was administered. From 
the conditions visible, and the fact that for a period of thirty 
hours neither feces or urine had been passed, the diagnosis was 
made of post partem paralysis. 
Drastics and excitants were applied, but the animal was 
killed. Post-mortem negative. 
Another case, taken thirteen hours after parturition, became 
very weak, fell and again stood upon her feet. Pulse weak and 
rythmical; anorexia with constipation and retention of urine. On 
the evening of the twenty-third day the patient fell, and could 
not again rise; convulsions with dyspnea rapidly debilitated the 
animal, so that slaughter was advisable. Post-mortem negative. 
Rasberger recalls 25 cases neccessitating slaughter. The 
results of the examinations in these showed ten to have 
suffered emphysema and oedema of the lungs, and four trau¬ 
matic pneumonia from particles of food. Diseases of the brain 
not present. The therapy consisted of cold applications to the 
head and neck with hot fomentations, one over the pelvic region 
and posterior limbs; internally the following as a drasticum: 
R 01. ricini § xxx. 
01 . tiglii 3 vi. 
M. et f. Haustus. 
