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or six miles to travel to see the animals they have, as a rule, 
been dead or in a dying state, and no treatment seemed to 
be of any benefit. 
The disease appears to me to run its course much quicker 
now than it did when, as a boy, I accompanied my father to 
attend the cases. Whether this arises from high feeding or 
other causes I cannot say. I know it to be a fact, however, that 
nowadays, when the disease has become fully established, you 
have a very poor chance of saving the animal. Hence the 
only thing we can do is to prevent the disease if possible. 
The reasons advanced by Mr. Prudames with respect to 
his preventive measures, viz. that “ the only objections that 
I have observed are that occasionally parturition is hastened, 
and sometimes the quantity of milk also for the first few days 
is lessened/’ are the very reasons which led me to give up 
the withdrawal of blood. 
With my preventive treatment my clients one and all are 
satisfied, and say the medicines are worth the expense in the 
increase of milk during the first few weeks, even if they had 
had no fear of parturient apoplexy. I have them sent long dis¬ 
tances out of my district, and have not heard yet of one failure. 
I consider the saline purgative acting on the bowels lessens 
the depression on the nervous force, and that the cinchona on 
the mammary gland at once increases the flow of milk, and 
so diminishes the depression of the nervous force. 
I have at different periods of the year given to my own 
cows an ounce of cinchona in oatmeal gruel once a day, to 
see what effect it had on the secretion of milk, and have always 
found an increase of it from one to three pints in the twenty- 
four hours, or, when continued for a week, an increase of eight 
to twelve pints during the week. 
PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 
By S. Newman, M.R.C.V.S., Havant, Hants. 
I have read with interest the remarks on the above 
disease by Mr. Santy and Mr. Prudames. For some time 
past I have carried out the same kind of treatment which 
they recommend, viz. bleeding and purging shortly before 
calving, but with only the varied success. This has also 
been the case with all other preventive measures which I 
have adopted. 
I will not now venture to describe the pathology of the 
