PARTURIENT ECLAMPSIA IN THE MARE. 
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foaling and put to light farm work, and in a few hours she had 
developed all the symptoms enumerated in the preceding 
cases, and when I arrived she was unable to regain her feet, 
rapidly growing worse and dying the same day, within 
twelve hours from the time she was brought from the pasture 
in prime condition, and only five to eight hours after the begin¬ 
ning of the attack. My other cases were similar, and need 
not be detailed here. 
How common this affection may be in the experience of 
others I have not learned. Messrs. Ullrich, V.S.,of Decatur, 
and Stringer, Y.S., of Danbury, have each related to me one 
. case of what appears to have been the same. A gentleman 
recently related another case to me which must have been of 
the same character. 
The subject was a little imported pony mare in high con¬ 
dition, with a well nourished foal at her side, about six to 
eight weeks old. Some children came to visit the owner’s 
little girl, and the pony was brought in from the pasture for 
the first time since foaling, a saddle put on her and then 
placed in the hands of the children, who used her for a few 
hours in the morning, and on being brought in at noon the 
stableman found some difficulty in removing the bit from her 
mouth. 
This attracted no particular attention, but when the owner 
attempted to bridle her again after dinner and failed on ac¬ 
count of the firm trismus, it was evident to them that some¬ 
thing was wrong. A veterinarian was at hand in a few hours, 
but the pony rapidly developed all the symptoms enumerated 
above. She was bled from one jugular on the first, and the 
other on the second day. Other treatment was carried out, 
but its exact nature is unknown to me. In about forty hours 
after the’ beginning of the attack the symptoms suddenly 
abated, and within forty-eight hours from the beginning the 
pony was apparently as well as ever. 
This case was, I was informed, diagnosed as tetanus, but, 
like my diagnoses in several cases, it was certainly incorrect. 
True, in the literal meaning of the word it was tetanus, but it 
was not the affection we ordinarily know by that name in 
human and veterinary practice. 
