PARTURIENT ECLAMPSIA IN THE BITCH. 
By Harold Leeney, M.R.C.V.S., Brighton. 
This affection appears to have attracted so little attention 
in England that I venture to offer a few remarks upon 
cases which have left no doubt, at least in my mind, as to 
the existence of such a malady in the dog, although so emi¬ 
nent an authority as Mr. Woodroffe Hill says he sees no 
analogy between eclampsia of Mauri and parturient apoplexy 
proper. 
That the condition described by Mauri follows upon par¬ 
turition, and is the result of increased vascularity of the cord, 
there can be no doubt, and although in many important re¬ 
spects the symptoms differ from those usually seen in the cow, 
yet for the above reason it bears, I think, considerable analogy. 
In the cases I have attended it has not occurred sooner 
than the fourth day after the birth of the pups, nor later 
than the fourteenth, but more frequently between those 
dates, and in bitches which have had large healthy pups 
drawing very vigorously at the mammae. 
Case 1 . —The patient, a fox terrier bitch, was the pro¬ 
perty of Dr. Kebbell. She had given birth to four strongly 
developed puppies on the 25th September, and suckled 
them so well that they were as fat as little moles when I 
was called to see her on October 1st. I found the bitch sitting 
on her haunches, with a fixed eye and very rapid, noisy, 
respiration; so rapid indeed that it was impossible to count 
the number. The pulse also was correspondingly quick. 
Temperature 108°. Frothy saliva dribbled from the mouth, 
which she made occasional and apparently unsuccessful 
efforts to swallow. She appeared not to recognise her 
owner, and would now and again make an effort to rise, 
sometimes sinking down again on her haunches, and at others 
succeeding in walking round the room with a staggering 
and uncertain gait, falling down after a few seconds from 
loss of power over the hind extremities. The muscles would 
then become rigid, and indeed so far simulate poisoning by 
strychnia that the owner had a difficulty in believing that 
such was not the case. 
The treatment consisted of a hot bath, to which some 
mustard was added, and an enema of the following emul¬ 
sion :—01. Ricini, Muc. Acacise, and Syr. Rhamni. This was 
soon involuntarily passed out of the rectum, and a second 
quantity being injected, had the effect of bringing away some 
