THERAPEUTIC REVIEW OF MILK FEVER. 
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have I ever heard of a case being cured by any of the quacks in 
the neighborhood.” 
Mr. Wardle, of East Sheen, says in the abstract of the Pro¬ 
ceedings of the Veterinary Medical Association for 1841, page 
155 : “ Unfortunately the majority of cases that have come under 
my notice have proved fatal.” 
Mr. Mayer, Jr., of New Castle-under-Lyne, says at page 160 
of the same volume: “ It is very fatal and, in some districts, con¬ 
sidered so incurable that the animal when taken is generally de¬ 
stroyed.” 
Mr. Simonds, Professor at the London Veterinary College, 
says in the same volume, page 160: “ It seemed to be the very 
acme of all the ills with which the lower animals are affected ; bid¬ 
ding defiance to all varieties of treatment adopted, and terminating 
almost always in death.” 
Woodroffe Hill, in “ Bovine Medicine and Surgery,” says: 
“In the earliest part, bleeding; next, epsom salts, aloes, jalap, 
cream of tartar, nitrate of potash and camphor, all in mass; or 
croton oil and linseed oil; large and repeated doses of alcohol.” 
Keeping the head cool is also an important matter. 
In tympanitis, use trochar. 
When delirious use hypodermic injections of morphine and 
Fleming’s tincture of aconite in fifteen-minim doses. 
The same author mentions an instance of a member of the 
profession being called to attend a cow in the very early stage of 
the malady, before she got down, and he at once exclaimed : “Oh, 
it is a case of milk fever; she will die.” And die she did, for 
very little he troubled further about her. And it is doubtless 
through nonsense that the disease is so regarded. 
Fleming, in “ Veterinary Obstetrics,” says: “The different 
modes of treatment enumerated for the cure of this disease are com- 
pletely bewildering; and they are so diametrically opposed to 
each other—from the obscurity which prevails as to the nature of 
the malady, we suppose—that we can scarcely be astonished to 
find that they are all more or less unsuccessful.” 
“Frank, in “Handbuch der Theirarztsichen Geburtzhuelfe,” 
recommends sulphuric ether, camphor and asafcetida in the first 
