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among cattle, and until quite lately its treatment has 

 been confined to the use of iodine, given in the form 

 of some of its salts. Iodine was considered a specific 

 for this disease, but personally I consider it not to be, 

 and my view is supported by several practitioners. 



Lately, in human practice, autogenous vaccine has 

 been used in the treatment of this disease with re- 

 markable success. In the spring of 1920 I employed 

 an autogenous vaccine for the treatment of a large 

 actinomycotic tumour in the parotid region of a cow. 

 In this case potassium iodine had been used for 

 months without any success. I treated this case with 

 an autogenous vaccine for two months, giving injec- 

 tions of increasing doses every ten days ; by the end 

 of the treatment the tumour had practically disap- 

 peared, the sinuses which had been discharging pus 

 were completely closed, and the animal had regained 

 her normal healthy appearance. Unfortunately, I 

 lost sight of this animal, so cannot say if the cure 

 remained permanent or not. In the Record of 

 June 18, 1921, Mr. W. M. Scott, F.R.C.V.S., records 

 a case of this disease treated with vaccine ; the cure 

 was complete. In this case Mr. Scott used in all thirty 

 injections of vaccine at intervals of seven days before 

 the cure was complete, but as this animal appeared 

 to be a very bad case with, apparently, internal 

 complications, it may account for the necessity of the 

 extended treatment. He, however, records that the 

 cure was permanent, as, after a lapse of two years, 

 the cow remained healthy, without any sign of the 

 disease returning. 



