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four quarters, which have been just milked out clean. The glands 

 are then manipulated so as to work the solution into all the re- 

 cesses of the milk tubes and follicles. If the patient does not get 

 on its legs at the end of twelve hours, the glands may be milked 

 out and injected anew. In nearly 2000 cases the recoveries 

 reached an average of nearly 83 per cent. In serious or advanced 

 cases with structural changes of a grave nature, a good result 

 cannot be hoped for. The injection does not forbid the concur- 

 rent use of other approved measures. 



The injection is easily made with a caoutchouc tube of five feet 

 long fitted to a teat tube at one end and to a funnel at the other. 

 The tube is inserted in the teat, and the funnel at a height of five 

 feet receives the liquid, which readily passes into the teat. When 

 ready to pass the tube from one teat to another, an assistant pinches 

 the caoutchouc tube just below the funnel, until the insertion has 

 been made. Every precaution must be taken against sepsis. The 

 udder, teats and hands, must be washed with soap, and treated 

 with a 3 per cent, solution of lysol. The teat tube and funnel 

 are boiled. The caoutchouc tube is washed and irrigated with a 

 solution of mercuric chloride (i : 1000), and then with one of 

 boric acid (3 : 100). 



