Paper read before the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association. 
PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 
PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 
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By W. F. Derr, V.S. 
Continued from 'page 20. 
Duration and Complications. 
The duration of parturient apoplexy is brief. In most cases 
; terminates favorably or unfavorably in from twenty-four to 
irty-eight hours. I have seen cases where death took place in 
ve hours from the first symptoms of illness, and, on the other 
and, I have seen cases that were comatose twenty-four hours 
nd made a good recovery. The complications are pneumonia 
nd temporary paralysis. Pneumonia, which is due to the passage 
f foreign matter, either food or medicine, into the air passages 
uring the time that there is entire loss of deglutition, or where 
E pmpanitic with eructations of gasses and feed. This is often 
le cause of death when the patient has recovered from parturient 
poplexy. 
Preventive Treatment. 
When we see the great fatality of this disease, and we know 
le subjects thereof are deep milking cows in a more or less ad- 
anced stage of plethora, we have every reason to prevent the 
isease, if we possibly can, by paying strict attention to hygiene, 
particularly during the last three or four weeks of pregnancy, and 
□mediately after parturition. They should be fed on soft and 
isily digested food, so as not to cause constipation, and to have 
'enty of exercise, and as the time draws near, if they are very 
.ethoric, to be put on half rations, with a laxative dose of sul- 
late of magnesia a day or two before calving, and, if necessary, 
dose right after the act, and then to be fed sparingly for three 
four days afterwards. In this way parturient apoplexy is pre- 
mted to a great extent. 
By some authorities bleeding is recommended, aud at the 
me time doses of purgative medicine administered, but I thick 
r diminishing the feed, and, if necessary, giving the cathartic 
edicine occasionally, the animal ought to be reduced enough to 
