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REPORTS OF CASES. 
were subjected to the same conditions under which azoturia oc¬ 
curs in the horse. The substitution of other concentrates for a 
considerable portion of cottonseed meal in the ration was recom¬ 
mended. Eliminative and tonic treatment was prescribed. 
AN UNUSUAL CASE OF PARTURIENT PARESIS IN A 
COW. 
By Drs. Deavenport and Heiny, Hattiesburg, Miss. 
On the morning of March 22 was called over long-distance 
’phone by client who stated he had a very valuable cow in bad 
shape. A local “ correspondence school graduate ” had been 
treating her for two days and a night, and patient had shown 
no improvement, but instead had grown worse and was down 
and unable to rise. My partner, Dr. Davenport, arrived at the 
patient at 12.30 p. m. (40 miles distant) and found her display¬ 
ing the following symptoms: Lying flat on side, with head 
down-hill position the local “ quack ” had placed her in to facili¬ 
tate giving enemas; as he stated, she had impaction of the 
bowels. Cow was in a semi-comatose condition; no sensation on 
pricking with needle or touching eyeball with finger. Pulse very 
low; respiration labored; mucous membranes congested; anus 
and vulva very much swollen from effects of “ quack ” passing 
his arm into rectum and giving enemas. Raised cow up on 
her sternum in a natural position, when her neck immediately 
described a typical S-shaped curve of parturient paresis. My 
partner at once suspected parturient paresis and proceeded to 
give treatment for same, although the owner stated the patient 
had not calved since last October. Knowing this to be an un¬ 
usually long time after calving for an attack of parturient pare¬ 
sis to come on, yet he thought it would be good precautionary 
treatment, as the symptoms were so typical of this disease. The 
owner stated that the cow had been fed very highly and was 
giving from 30 to 34 pounds of milk daily. She was in good 
plethoric condition. He inflated udder with sterilized oxygen 
and gave hypodermic injection of M gr. of strychnine every two 
hours. At 4.30 p. m. the cow showed some improvement; con¬ 
tents of udder were removed and it was again inflated tightlv. 
The cow was able to drink water, and as consciousness had fully 
returned, she was given a drench composed of spirits of nitrous 
ether, two ounces; aromatic spirits of ammonia, two ounces, and 
