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warm water to keep the air from returning. Both of these patients 

 recovered in from three to four hours, taking less time than was the 

 case with the Potassium Iodide treatment. This discovery was re- 

 ported to the Wisconsin Society of Veterinary Graduates in August, 

 1903. This was the first intimation of the discovery of the air 

 treatment and on January 29, 1903, on page 1170, Volume XXXIV 

 of "Hoard's Dairyman" under the veterinary query department, of 

 which the writer was editor, he wrote and published the first article 

 giving credit to the air treatment. 



The second intimation of the air treatment and the recom- 

 mendation of its use was published by the writer February 12, 1904, 

 on page 18, volume XXXV of "Hoard's Dairyman*' while answer- 

 ing a query from West Concord, which called for information re- 

 garding the oxygen treatment. It was after this second article on 

 the air treatment that university veterinary departments and 

 veterinary colleges got busy announcing the discovery of the air 

 treatment and recommending the bicycle pump to inflate the udder 

 with air, but none of them gave credit to "Hoard's Dairyman," nor 

 to its veterinarv editor, who made the discoverv on lulv 21. 1903. 



