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action of the intestines. English veterinarians prefer spirit of 
turpentine internally. This drug has the great inconvenience of 
rendering the meat useless, in case the animal is slaughtered. 
Ether, valerian, assafoetida and many neurostenic drugs, com¬ 
bined with alcohol, have given good results. 
The external treatment has been no less varied. Wrapping 
the animal in large wet sheets; the application of warm com¬ 
presses, stimulating friction, ammoniacal liniments, turpentine, 
mucilagenous or alcoholic injections in the vagina, or in preference 
a solution of permanganate of potassa or phenic acid, are also 
indicated. 
All these seem to be more or less reliable, and the losses still 
average generally between eighty and ninety per cent. 
From the publications made in the Recueil de Medecine Vet . 
erinaire , much success seems to have been obtained with the 
treatment followed by Messrs. Hartenstein and Mathe. 
This treatment, published in V Hy dr other apie appliquee aux 
animaux , is a mixed treatment whose agents are douches of cold 
water on the head and loins, repeated bleedings and drastic 
purgatives. The results obtained by the author in several cases 
induced him to present it to the profession, and a large number 
of recoveries have since been recorded, as well by the author as 
by many veterinarians in France. 
We have ourselves employed the Hartenstein treatment in 
many cases, and it has always given us full satisfaction. It is 
on account of this success that we have thought proper to present 
the subject to our confreres and to the agriculturists and breeders 
of this country. 
PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 
Paper read before the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association. 
By W. F. Deee, V.S. 
The subject I am about to bring before you for discussion is 
a disease called by the dairyman and farmer milk fever, or drop- 
mg after calving; by the more scientific men, parturient apoplexy, 
