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In the cold season protection against cold draughts and chills 

 must be seen to, and in the hot season the avoidance of an excess 

 of solar heat and above all of the confined impure air of the barns. 



At midsummer and later, there is often great danger in the 

 rich clover and alfalfa pasture, or soiling crop, with which the cow 

 will dangerously load her stomach, and the only safe course is to 

 remove predisposed animals and shut them up in a bare yard or 

 box-stall. Under such simple precautions herds that had formerly 

 suffered severely, have had the disease virtually put a stop to. 



In individual cases other measures are indicated. When the 

 udder has reached an enormous size and development, and is 

 gorged with milk, days before parturition, it should be syste- 

 matically milked. The irritation in the gorged gland is quite as 

 likely to induce premature parturition, as is milking, and, at the 

 worst, the result is not so bad as an attack of parturition feve-r. 



Basing his advice on the fact that parturition fever does not 

 follow a case of severe dystokia, Cagny applies sinapisms on the 

 loins, croup and thighs of a fleshy, plethoric, heavy milking, 

 parturient cow. Proof of their efhcac}^ is not obtainable. 



Felizet advises leaving the calf with its dam for one week. 

 Koline doses the cow with nux vomica : Harms, with tartar 

 emetic. 



In view of the probabilit}' of a bacterial infection the cow 

 should be taken to a clean, pure, well-aired stable a day or two 

 before calving, having been first cleansed from adherent filth, 

 and sponged all over with a 4 per cent, solution of carbolic acid. 



To prevent diffusion of infection Bournay recommends anti- 

 septic injection of the womb immediately after calving, Bis- 

 sauge adds that the stable should be disinfected after every case 

 of parturition fever, the manure carefully removed and the 

 ground scraped and well watered with a disinfectant. 



For fleshy, plethoric, predisposed cows, the iodine injection 

 of the udder should be applied immediateh' after calving. A 

 measure of this kind which is so successful as a curative agent, 

 and which brings such circumstantial evidence of the production 

 of a poison (leucomaine or ptomaine) in the mammary gland, 

 can hardly fail to be ev'en more effective as a prophylactic than 

 as a therapeutic resort. 



