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prevent an attack. If the secretions of milk should come c 
before calving, I should have it withdrawn as often as uecessar 
Symptoms. 
The animal, some time after calving, say from ten hours 
three days, becomes restless, lifts her posterior limbs alternate! 
looks sluggish and drowsy, refuses her food, the horns are hot, tl 
nose hot and dry, the urine scanty, bowels constipated and if mov( 
at this time, the feces are hard, dry and lumpy; the milk is su 
pressed in quantity or entirely stopped ; the pupils are dilate 
the hind legs seem weak and are separated from each other 
little; stands very uneasily upon them, and if the animal is no 
moved, she will fall by a doubling at her fetlocks, but half ris< 
again and so on until she sinks altogether and frequently bellov 
at her own inability to stand. About this period the disea; 
makes a rapid progress, the animal plunges about in order to r 
gain her feet, but the disease has taken a firm hold on her at 
she is unable to rise. She may now lay with her head pressed 
her side, or she may lay tranquilly on her side fully extende 
The rumen now becomes tympanitic from the suspension of i 
functions, the pulse becomes small, quick and almost impercepi 
ble, her respiratory efforts are slow and infrequent, and after 
little time becomes stertorous. The temperature taken at th 
time usually marks from 96° to 98° Far. This is the stage of tl 
malady when the veterinary surgeon is usually sent for. 
Differential Diagnosis. 
This disease is frequently confounded with a disease known 
loin fallen, the drop; technically, adynemia, nervosa generalis, « 
nervous debility, also with parturient fever, which is frequent 
treated for parturient apoplexy. But in the first named disea 
there is only a want of ability to rise with a tendency of coldne 
of the surface and weakness of the pulse, with some torpidity • 
the bowels; otherwise the animal remains apparently in go( 
health. With the other, parturient fever, an increase of tempe 
ature of 102° to 103° is usually the first indication of the malady 
a marked tumefaction of the vulva and a discharge therefrom 
a dark chocolate color. As in parturient apoplexy, the cow rm 
