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A. C. STEVER. 
fever subsides. A disposition to stand or lie down in water is 
frequently noted. Nervous symptoms are usually present. The 
extreme dulness, languor and apathy, the drooping head and 
ears, the unsteadiness of support, the animal staggering or prop¬ 
ping himself up by spreading all four limbs and the tendency to 
assume a recumbent position are marked phenomena in our do¬ 
mesticated cattle. 
The paresis may absolutely incapacitate the animal from get¬ 
ting up. In our wilder-range cattle it may show itself in active 
delirium, the animal lying dull and apathetic; on being ap¬ 
proached, may raise his head, open his eyes and glare threaten¬ 
ingly at the intruder. Sometimes, when trembling violently and 
swaying, ready to fall, he will marshal all his remaining energy 
to plunge at a man. Some have become blind and uncon¬ 
sciously walked against obstacles; others have been noticed to run 
in wide circles. 
The milk secretion is suppressed and abortion is common in 
the pregnant cow. 
The condition of the urine has, however, always drawn espe¬ 
cial attention, and the names red-water and hemoglobinuria have 
accordingly been applied to the disease. Shortly after the rise of 
temperature the urine becomes turbid and this gradually increases 
to a more or less deep red. It assumes its darkest hue when the 
destruction of red globules is most active and during convales¬ 
cence it disappears. The coloration is not due to red globules, 
but to the hemoglobin which has escaped from the disintegrating 
globules and been eliminated by the kidneys. It is always asso¬ 
ciated with albumen, and in the advanced stages and during con¬ 
valescence, when the elimination of hemoglobin has ceased, that 
of albumen continues for several weeks. 
The bowels are at first constipated and the faeces passed is 
small, hard balls. Later thev may receive a reddish-brown ot 
chocolate color, and a covering* of mucus and fine blood clots. 
Diarrhoea supervenes in some cases. 
Course and Duration .—Acute cases, above all, if traveled or 
