PARTURIENT ECLAMPSIA IN THE MARE. 
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symptoms abating. While down the animal lay on the 
sternum, and did not attempt to roll; in rising she did so with 
apparent ease. While standing there was constant clonic 
twitchings of the muscles of the entire body, spasmodic 
movements of the limbs, frequent changes in posture, tremb¬ 
ling, profuse sweating, the nostrils widely distended, the 
movements stiff, as in tetanus. There was no protrusion of 
the membrana nictitans over the eyeballs, but the eves were 
staring and pupils dilated, and the conjunctive were dark 
livid in color. There was severe trismus, the jaws being 
wholly immovable, and as in the preceding case there was 
violent spasm of the diaphragm. She was bled freely from 
the jugular, and given large and repeated doses of belladonna 
and cannabis indica. For about thirty-six hours the symp¬ 
toms remained about the same,- when they began to abate 
rapidly, and in 48 to 60 hours after the beginning of the 
attack the mare was in her usual health. 
On the same day, on a neighboring farm, 1 attended 
another grade draft mare with a similar history of recent 
easy parturition, healthy foal at side, etc., and which prior to 
my arrival had shown a similar train of symptoms to those 
noted above; but the owner delayed calling me, so that upon 
my arrival I found the animal prostrate on her side, the whole 
muscular system thoroughly tetanized, the eyes set and insen¬ 
sible to light, firm trismus, well-marked opisthotomos, repeated 
severe convulsions of the entire body, readily increased or 
caused by any sudden noise 
Barring the want of protrusion of the membrana nictitans 
and the greater nervousness, the case closely simulated a re¬ 
cumbent case of tetanus. The animal succumbed after about 
twenty-four hours. 
In another case I was called to attend, a full blood draft 
foal, some five or six days old, was suffering from lameness, 
and in order that it might be well attended the mare was 
brought from the pasture and placed in the stable. The next 
morning I was hurriedly called to attend the mare, which I 
had seen the previous day in apparently perfect health and 
unusually robust and vigorous. Upon my arrival at the farm 
