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particle of improvement had been made. After another 

 month or so of treatment the animals were in each case 

 destroyed. 



Lack of coordination in the posterior extremities is 

 another rather frequent after-effect of azoturia. This 

 ranges from a slight awkwardness in turning or backing, 

 to a ridiculous wabbling in all gaits. It makes its appear- 

 ance from a few weeks to a month after recovery from 

 the attack of azoturia. 



Prolonged courses of potassium iodid treatment will 

 effect a cure in a good many of these cases. A somewhat 

 rare, but noteworthy, sequel to azoturia is a relapse. 

 After the animal has apparently recovered from an 

 attack, another attack is ushered in. As I have already 

 remarked, this is a rare occurrence ; it has happened once 

 or twice in my practice, and other practitioners have 

 reported it also. 



A few years ago I had a patient that developed an 

 attack of azoturia several times each year. This animal, 

 a mare, was down for two or three days on several occa- 

 sions with a well-marked case of azoturia, and on at least 

 one occasion her condition was very grave. She made a 

 complete recovery after at least four attacks to my own 

 knowledge. She was then sold to a farmer a few miles 

 away, and had no more attacks for at least two years, 

 after which I lost sight of her. In one instance this mare 

 apparently had recovered entirely from an attack. She 

 got up, was normal in every respect for nearly twenty- 

 four hours, and then suddenly went down again. She 

 remained down for nearly two days with all symptoms 

 of azoturia well marked. At the end of the second day 

 she got up and made a rapid recovery. None of the 

 attacks from which this mare suffered were followed by 

 after-effects of any kind. 



It is my opinion that the treatment used in combating 



