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continue the quinine but increase the intervals between the doses, 
as the temperature falls, and the urine becomes natural in 
color. 
I allow the animal all the cold drinking water desired, and 
feed bran and meal slops if the animal will eat them, but no 
harm follows the practice of allowing all the cured food the patient 
will eat. Some will nibble at hay, others blade fodder, and 
some will refuse all food. Such patients I drench with raw eggs 
and fresh milk, and sometimes with oatmeal gruel. 
When the temperature has been reduced to 103° F., or lower, 
or when the urine is about natural in color, I stop the quinine, 
and give a compound of arsenious acid, sulphate of iron and nux 
vomica twice a day, and continne it so long as the cow remains 
debilitated or in bad condition. 
In some cases, you will have relapses, when you will have 
to resort to quinine again. Some cases recover rapidly and 
permanently, while some few cases only partially recover, linger 
for a month or two and die, apparently from malnutrition, even, 
weeks after severe frosts. This latter termination is especially 
marked in cases that owners will persist in turning on pastures 
after the urgent symptoms have disappeared. Therefore, I ad¬ 
vise that all recovered cases be kept off pasture till after cold 
weather has set in. 
In recent years, I look for ticks as a matter of curiosity. 
Sometimes I find them on patients, and sometimes I fail to find 
them, but I make no systematic search for them. 
Such is an outline of my course of treatment, which, of course, 
is often modified when deemed necessary. 
In the case of a human being with a serious disease there are 
premonitory symptoms which necessitate the calling of a physi¬ 
cian before the alarming symptoms have appeared, but in 
the case of a cow, the alarming symptoms have appeared, and 
the disease has made a terrible onslaught on the vital organs be¬ 
fore she is discovered to be ill; then we are called, and with these 
facts in mind I have been comparatively satisfied with my average 
success. 
