PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 
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translated by Dr. Williams and published in the American 
Veterinary Review, covering a space of forty pages. The 
treatment was very soon taken lip by veterinarians throughout 
the United States. Good practitioners have had varied success 
with the Schmidt treatment, saving according to the figures 
they have given from 25 to 75 per cent. Dr. Schwarzkopf, 
who is most enthusiastic for the Schmidt treatment, collected 
data which he presented in a paper before the American Veter¬ 
inary Association in New York last September, himself loses 
two cases out of eight and a third by complications. 
The intravenous treatment is comparatively a new one. So 
far as we can learn the success with this mode is about equal to 
the Schmidt. 
Instrument makers have not been slow in aiding the would- 
be-up-to-date practitioner, as they are already making and ad¬ 
vertising instruments for the new treatments. If the Schmidt 
theory is correct some one should invent an antitoxin for the 
purpose of treating the liable subject before parturition and 
produce immunity from such attack. 
At the request of this association, I collected data on this 
subject. The following list of questions was sent to the mem¬ 
bers of the profession in this State : 
No. 1. Time of taking ill after delivery ? 
No. 2. What was the treatment? 
No. 3. Recovery or death ? 
No. 4. In case of death, give post-mortem, if any. 
No. 5. What is your theory as to the pathology ? 
I received eleven replies. The replies to question No. 1 
varied from time during delivery up to ten days after. The 
replies to the remaining questions were as follows: Treat¬ 
ment—One used Schmidt, also hypodermic injection of strych¬ 
nia ; tapped the rumen ; magnesia sulphate, as cathartic. 
Two cases—One recovered that received strychnia. Theory 
on pathology, nervous intoxication. 
Another— u Intravenous injection, hot packs, cauteriza¬ 
tion, added iodide of potassium treatment with the intravenous 
