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remainder is given. He recommends also large doses of epsom salts, 
with counter irritation to back in shape of mustard. He says 
they lie from twelve to twenty-four hours, then get up. He 
claims never to have lost a case when the animal has lived long 
enough to take all of the stimulants. 
Breeders of Jersey cattle claim to me they always cure it, but 
I am afraid they are poor diagnosticians from their descriptions. 
Looking to the uterus as being the first organ affected in this dis¬ 
ease, I have thought it best to have the uterine cavity washed out 
carefully with a corrosive sublimate solution and also carbolic 
solution. I cannot speak of results from experience; have only 
tried it on one case; that case, however, got well, but I believe 
it as good a preventive as any we have, if it is done right after 
calving, and I think it should be done with all cases we are called 
to treat, as it will no doubt facilitate a recovery. Thanking you 
for your kind attention, I leave the subject in your hands, trust¬ 
ing we may all derive benefit from its discussion. 
MALADIE DU COIT. 
By W. L. Williams, Y.S. 
Report on the outbreak in Illinois to the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners. 
(Continued from page 410.) 
Treatment .—The chances of effecting a cure, or exerting by 
any known treatment any marked influence on the course of the 
disease, are very remote. Many different lines of treatment have 
been proposed, but their beneficial effects have not been well 
demonstrated. 
Locally we should expect benefit in the earlier stages of catar- 
- rhal inflammation of the vagina and urethra, from emollient or 
mildly astringent injections, and later by the use of remedies of a 
more decided astringent nature—nitrate of silver, sulphate of 
zinc, aulphate of copper, etc. In three stallion cases of over one 
year’s standing, showing well marked urethral irritation and dis¬ 
charge, these symptoms were promptly eliminated by cauterization 
