610 ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
The remainder of the symptoms are too well known to 
need further describing. 
The course of the malady is very irregular, and is not dis¬ 
tinguished by any manifestation of definite symptoms to 
divide it in three periods, as has been attempted. 1st, period 
of irritation ; 2nd, paralysis; 3rd, typhus. The patient may 
die in a few hours, or live from three to four days; the latter 
is seldom the case; the duration is in general about two 
days. In a very short space of time the malady terminates 
either in death or recovery. 
The opinions on the nature and localisation of the malady 
are extremely diversified; the autopsy has furnished an infinity 
of lesions. Roll and Spinola range it amongst the inflam¬ 
mations of the peritoneum and the uterus. The clots of 
blood and the serum present in the cranial cavity, observed 
by Festal and Hess, would tend to cerebral apoplexy. The 
effusion resembling milk, found by Sthorer in the cellulary 
tissue, the mediastinum, and the cranial cavity, led Wieners 
to describe it as a metastasis of the milk. 
In reviewing the treatment, the author remarks that when 
bleeding constituted the panacea for all diseases, it was ex¬ 
tensively employed against this malady, and advantageous 
results were attributed to it in many cases. At the begin- 
ing of my practice,^^ the author adds, “ I had recourse to 
this mode of treatment, but after bleeding I always found 
the temperature and the strength of the animal suddenly 
reduced, the stupor more intense, and death set in sooner. 
I speedily renounced a mode of treatment which aggravated 
the malady.^"’ 
Sedatives have had no better results. Finally, the treat- 
• ment which has given the most favorable results, is that 
which restores the activity of the nervous system, and 
relieves the state of depression. Alcohols and ethers, ad¬ 
ministered internally, seem best to attain that object, given 
at short intervals, to prevent their stimulating effect from 
being followed by depression of the newly acquired forces; 
this is powerfully assisted by friction on the skin and irritating 
enemas. 
The author deprecates prophylactics in the shape of me¬ 
dicaments and bleeding, agreeing in this with the majority 
of practitioners. The true prophylactics are general mea¬ 
sures of hygiene, and in this instance they are comprised in 
the care taken of the cows in the last period of gestation, 
separation of those in calf from the others, and sheltering 
them from the inclemency of the weather, &c. 
