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The teat tube must be scalded in boiling water before and after 

 use. If care is not taken to have instruments and vessels clean, and 

 disinfected, there is danger of inducing mammitis or inflammation 

 of the mammary gland. Under this treatment, purgatives, as a rule, 

 are not required, for in the course of 30 to 40 hours slight diarrhoea 

 generally follows. The treatment is known as that of Schmidt's, but 

 as far back as 1877 I drew attention to the fact that the cause of 

 the derangement originated in the mammary gland, and Schmidt's 

 treatment confirms the conclusions I then arrived at. In all cases 

 the animal should be kept trussed up on its breast-bone and belly, 

 with bundles of straw, or bags of chaff, or sawdust ; never allow the 

 coiv to lie on its side. Having given the medicine noted, and injected 

 the iodide of potassium solution into the udder, leave the patient 

 alone, with the exception of turning it from one side to the other, 

 every six hours. The hand should be well soaped and introduced into 

 the rectum, and the hard-baked dung cleared out, and, if necessary 

 the catheter passed and the urine removed. 



580. When coma sets in, no attempt should be made to force 

 anything down the animal's throat, as there is great danger of its 

 passing down the wind-pipe on to the lungs, and producing congestion, 

 or perhaps a fatal lung affection. Subsequent treatment must be 

 adapted to the progress of the case. If in the course of from 12 to 

 24, or even 36 hours, the patient begins to show signs of returning 

 consciousness, by holding the head up, pricking the ears, and lookmg 

 round, it should be offered a few mouthfulsof cold water, bran, or hay 

 tea ; after a little while, it will attempt to rise to its feet, and evince a 

 desire for food by eating the bedding, while ihe secretion of milk 

 returns ; when this takes place, nothing more is required but nursing 

 the cow for a few days. A small quantity of milk should, however, 

 be removed at intervals of from six to eight hours. I do not agree with 

 continually drawing off the milk as fast as it is secreted, and therefore 

 recommend leaving some in the udder to stimulate further secretion. 

 Frequent hand rubbing is also of very great service as a stimulant 

 to the gland. 



