900 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



aid in diagnosis. The head is turned around to the side (usually 

 the left) and rests on the chest, causing a peculiar arching of the neck. 

 If the head is drawn out straight, it immediately flops around to the 

 side again when the force is removed. The body usually rests slightly 

 to one side, with the hind legs extended forward and outward and the 

 fore legs doubled up in their normal position. There is paralysis of the 

 muscles of the throat, so that swallowing is impossible, and in case 

 drenching is attempted there is great danger of the fluids going into the 

 lungs and setting up traumatic pneumonia. In fatal cases the animal 

 may remain perfectly quiet and die in a comatose condition from com- 

 plete paralysis of the nervous system, but more frequently there is some 



IINAL STAGE COMATOSE CONDITION 



agitation and excitement prior to death with tossing about of the head. 

 Death, like recovery, usually occurs in from 3ighteeu to seventy-two hours 

 after the onset of the malady. 



VI. What to Do. 



To Andersen, of Skanderborg, belongs the credit for first having made 

 use of plain atmospheric air, although Schmidt had previously recom- 

 mended the admittance of air with the potassium iodide solution for 

 the purpose of obtaining greater diffusion of the liquid. Andersen first 

 injected air along with sterile water and then by itself. The results were 

 astonishingly successful. Thus Schmidt reports that our of 914 cases 

 treated in Denmark, 884, or 96.7 per cent, were restored to health. The 

 record of 140 of these animals shows that recovery occurred in the aver- 



