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thrown in from horn or bottle; equally copious warm injections; the 

 application of heat in some form to the surface of the body (by a rug 

 wrung out of hot water; by hanging over the back and loins bags 

 loosely filled with bran, sand, salt, chaff, or other agent previously 

 heated in a stove ; by the use of a flatiron or the warming of the sur- 

 face by a hot-air bath), or by active friction with straw wisps by two 

 or more persons; the administration of a pint of strong alcoholic 

 liquor, or of 1 ounce of ground ginger, may serve to cut short the 

 attack. After half an hour's sweat rub dry and cover with a dry 

 blanket. 



If, on the other hand, there is little or no fever, and only a 

 slight inflammation, rub well with camphorated ointment or a weak 

 iodine ointment, and milk three, four, or six times a day, rubbing 

 the bag thoroughly each time. Milking must be done with great 

 gentleness, squeezing the teat in place of pulling and stripping it, 

 and if this causes too much pain, the teat tube or the spring teat di- 

 lator may be employed. Antiseptic injections of the teats and udder 

 are often useful, and iodoform in water has been especially recom- 

 mended. It may be replaced by one of the injections advised for 

 parturition fever, used with the same careful precautions. 



In cases in which the fever has set in and the inflammation is 

 more advanced, a dose of laxative medicine is desirable (Epsom salts, 

 1 to 2 pounds; ginger, 1 ounce), which may be followed, after the 

 purging has ceased, by daily doses of saltpeter, 1 ounce. Many rely 

 on cooling and astringent applications to the inflamed quarter (vine- 

 gar, sugar-of-lead lotion, cold water, ice, etc.), but a safer and better 

 resort is continued fomentation with warm water. A bucket of warm, 

 water, replenished as it cools, may be set beneath the udder, and two 

 persons can raise a rug out of this and hold it against the udder, 

 dipping it anew whenever the heat is somewhat lost. Or a sheet may- 

 be passed around the body, with four holes cut for the teats and soft 

 rags packed between it and the udder, and kept warm by pouring 

 on water as warm as the hands can bear every ten or fifteen minutes. 

 "When this has been kept up for an hour or two the bag may be dried, 

 well rubbed with soap, and left thus witli a soapy coating. If the 

 pain is great, extract of belladonna may be applied along with the 

 soap, and a dry suspensory bandage with holes for the teats may be 

 applied. Strong mercurial ointment is very useful in relieving pain 

 and softening the bag. This is especially valuable when the disease 

 is protracted and induration threatens. It may be mixed with an 

 equal amount of soap and half the amount of extract of belladonna. 

 In cases of threatened induration excellent results are sometimes 

 obtained from a weak induction current of electricity sent through 

 the gland daily for ten minutes. 



If abscess threatens it may be favored by fomentation and 

 opened as soon as fluctuation from finger to finger shows the forma- 

 tion of matter at a point formerly hard. The wound may bleed 

 freely, and there is a risk of opening a milk duct, yet relief will be 

 secured, and a dressing twice daily with a lotion of carbolic acid, 1 



