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opposing it; and; finally, the treatment which hitherto, apd 
in the hands of various practitioners who have tried it, has 
proved the most successful, all lead us to determine that this 
disease is congestive in its nature. 
“ (8) The false paralysis always present in this disease 
can be readily explained by the abolition of sensation and 
volition, and also by an idiosyncrasy of the cow, ip conse¬ 
quence of which it keeps the recumbent position. In some 
severe but non-paralytic disorders, as enteritis, Jisepiorrhages, 
fractures, prolonged and laborious parturition ; man himself, 
in such a position, finds not only the cessation of all fatigue, 
but also relief from suffering. 
“ (9) Nevertheless, in severe cases, there may be real 
paraplegia, and perhaps even general paralysis; hence we 
observe loss of the function of fhe great sympathetic, as 
shown by the almost total cessation of milk secretiop. and 
of intestinal movements. 
“ (10) The more or less marked coma, the diminution in 
the activity, or the more or less marked abolition of con¬ 
sciousness and feeling essentially characterise vitulary fever, 
or (to put it in other words) the encephalic congestion. If 
they are wanting, if is not a case of this disease. Even in 
cases accompanied by paraplegia or general paralysis, the 
cerebral symptoms always predominate. 
“ (11) The prognosis may be favorable if the stupor is not 
very marked, and if voluntary evacuations take place. 
“ (12) Even when coma is profound, the breathing being 
stertorous, we must not despair so long as the lacteal secre¬ 
tion, although diminished, continues, and as long as the 
bladder and the rectum again become filled after evacua¬ 
tion. 
“ (13) But there is little hope if the teats are flaccid, if 
the rectum and bladder remain very nearly empty, and if 
there is an intestinal rumbling not associated with a state of 
plenitude, in which case it ceases on evacuation, and if it 
does not depend on lying too long upon the same side. 
“ (14) Recovery is near when the respirations are not so 
deep nor sonorous, and when the evacuations commence to 
be again performed voluntarily. 
“(15) Exercise, reduced diet, and sometimes feeding, 
especially with cows which have not given milk for some 
time, are excellent prophylactic means. 
“ (16) The curative means must be antiphlogistic, and 
ought to aim especially at the removal of the congestion of 
the brain and the promotion of abdominal circulation. It 
bught never to include the employment of medicaments 
