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T. D. HINEBAUCH. 
the disease is of a contagions character. For this, its appearance 
in a single individual, at first, and its very gradual extension, 
while were it due to any specific, though external cause, where all 
the animals are banded together and have the same treatment, a 
more general eruption would certainly occur. 
Prevention and Treatment .—Complete isolation of the diseased 
from the healthy animals will cut off the extension of an outbreak 
with the most happy results. All the treatment necessary is a 
dark place, and cloths constantly hanging over the eyes, kept wet 
with cold water all the time. This treatment lessens the severity 
of the disturbances, and hence tends to shorten the period of 
restitution. 
The application of any washes or remedies inside the conjunc¬ 
tival sack is not only useless but harmful, as the animals resist it 
all they can, and hence the danger of the introduction of irrita¬ 
ting foreign material is increased, and even the endeavor to lift 
the lids, or handle the eye must be looked upon as having an in¬ 
jurious tendency. 
PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 
By T. D. Hinebauoh, V.S. 
Extracted from, Bulletin of Experimental Station of Indiana. 
Synonyms. —Parturient; Apoplexy, Milk Fever, Puerperal Fever, 
Calving Fever, Dropping After Calving. 
Causes .—The causes are predisposing and exciting. Among 
the first may be mentioned high condition ; well fed cows, es¬ 
pecially heavy milkers, suffer most seriously and extensively from 
this disease. One attack usually predisposes to another. Age 
has a great influence, parturient apoplexy being most often no¬ 
ticed from the third to the seventh calving. The exciting cause 
is the act of parturition. 
Symptoms .—The first symptoms are usually manifested at 
from one to three days after calving. The sooner they are de¬ 
veloped the more serious and fatal will be the disease. There 
will be diminished secretion of milk, hanging of the head, loss of 
