PAR'LTJUKNT APOI'LKW l\ THE COW, 
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Gave Mag. Sulph, lb.ss. with Zingib. and Ammou. Garb. 
17 th.—I learned this morning that the cow had not been 
so well during the night, but had rallied a little towards 
morning. She would not, however, take anything. The 
extremities were cold ; pulse feeble, and the breathing quick. 
The bowels had acted a little. 
Gave a carminative dose, and repeated the brandy. 
7 p.m.—Patient better; holds her head up. Has taken a 
little scalded hay, and a bran mash. Bowels acting freely. 
The quantity of milk increasing. Makes frequent efforts 
to get up, but is unable to rise. 
Repeated the carminative. 
18th, 10 a.m—Going on favorably; bowels acting well; 
eats and drinks freely, but is not yet able to get up. The 
milk has increased in quantity. 
12th, 12 a.m.—Patient is able to get up, but has lost the 
use of the near hind leg. She eats and drinks pretty well 
and milks freely. Bowels are getting rather costive, and as 
such, a laxative dose was given, which was ordered to be 
repeated as might be required. 
The loss of her limb continuing, her owner soon became 
discouraged, as a cow T with a paralysed extremity is not a 
very desirable animal to a dairy farmer. I suggested that, as 
she was doing so well in other respects and was giving a fair 
quantity of milk, she should be kept to fatten the calf, after 
which she could be slaughtered if no better. This plan was 
determined on; and by the end of May she was so much 
improved as to be able to walk out in the field during the 
day, but was taken up at night. At this time she was giving 
more milk than any other cow in the dairy, which she con¬ 
tinued to do all through the summer, when she was able 
to walk any reasonable distance, but showed a little weakness 
of the extremity. Her owner has put her to the bull again, 
but with what prudence will be best seen when she calves. 
The above cases are recorded rather with a view of calling 
forth observations from the profession relative to paralysis of 
one of the hind limbs as a sequela of dropping after calving 
than anything else. They possess to my mind much interest, 
and go far, I think, to establish the true pathology of this 
disease. 
[We regard these cases as a valuable addition to our accu¬ 
mulated facts relative to parturient apoplexy in the cow. The 
sequelae of this disease are as various as can well be imagined, 
and we have ourselves seen cases very analogous to the 
one first described. Several instances of sphacelus of 
