Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . ual conditionmuch more precisely is partu-rient paresis. The disease hasalso several other names invarious parts of the country,such as calving fever, parturi-tion fever, parturient apoplexy,parturient collapse, puerperalfever, vitulary fever, and drop-ping after calving. III. Description of Disease. Milk fever is a disease
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . ual conditionmuch more precisely is partu-rient paresis. The disease hasalso several other names invarious parts of the country,such as calving fever, parturi-tion fever, parturient apoplexy,parturient collapse, puerperalfever, vitulary fever, and drop-ping after calving. III. Description of Disease. Milk fever is a disease of well-nourished, plethoric, heavy-milkingcows; it occurs during the most active period of life (fourth to sixthcalf), and is characterizedby its sudden onset, andthe complete paralysis ofthe animal with loss of sen-sation, and by followingclosely the act of calving,or parturition, terminat-ing in a short time in re-covery or death. One at-tack predisposes the ani-mal to a recurrence of thetrouble. While this diseasemay occur at any timeduring the whole year, itis seen principally during the warm summer The affection is almost entirely confined tothe cow, although a few cases have been reported in the sow and are entirely free from the MILK FEVER—SECOND STAGE. MILK FEVER ITS SIMPLE AND SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT. 899 IV. Causes. There are few diseases among our domesticated animals regarding theexact cause of which more widely different theories have been advancedthan that- of milk fever. The causes may properly be divided into twokinds—predisposing and direct. Experience shows one of the mostprominent predisposing causes to be the great activity of the milk-secret-ing structure, namely, the udder. This organ is most active after thefourth, fifth, and sixth parturition, and this is the time of life when thevast majority of cases occur. The disease is almost unknown in heiferswith the first calf and decreases in frequency steadily after the most acti
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