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treatment to the relief of the many animals which are suffer¬ 
ing with the disease, and which by it from valuable are meta¬ 
morphosed into dangerous animals, and which in so many in¬ 
stances prove one of the most common means of transmitting 
the disease. Let us all hope that the subcutaneous injections 
of “ Paratoloid ” will prove as applicable and beneficial in the 
lower class of phthisic patients as it is promised it will prove in 
the higher class, the human family. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
PARTURIENT ECLAMPSIA IN THE MARE. 
By W. L. Williams, Y.S., Bloomington, Ill. 
(A paper read before the Illinois Veterinary Medical Association.) 
It seems somewhat strange to the comparative pathologist 
that in all the larger domestic animals, save the mare (and in 
woman), there should occur a well-marked group of convul¬ 
sive diseases having an intimate relation to the parturient state. 
In the mare no such disease is described, so far as I have 
been able to determine, unless we except the bare hint of 
Fleming (Fleming’s Veterinary Obstetrics, p. 660), who, in 
speaking of parturient apoplexy' of the cow, say's; “ It is 
worthy of notice that the first stage of parturient fever—viz., 
the stage marked by congestion of the brain—is observed in 
the mare. It soon terminates in death, as is also sometimes 
the case with the cow, as a result of apoplexy. Such cases, 
though not sufficiently substantiated by the result of autop¬ 
sies, have been described by Gerard (Veterinarian, 1874). 
The mares in question died during parturition, or soon after.” 
As will appear later, Gerard’s cases were evidently essen¬ 
tially different from those I propose to describe as eclampsia. 
The only mention I find of what appears to be the same 
disease as that under consideration is a brief sketch by 
Professor Williams in his Principles and Practice of Veter¬ 
inary Medicine, under the name of hysteria. 
My^ views of this disease are based almost wholly upon 
