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tempt to draw the milk, for there is none secreted. If the animal 
is not comatose, repeat the dose (1 and 2) in four hours, and con¬ 
tinue doing so every six hours until you see her recovering. In 
my experience, with one exception, I have never given more than 
two doses, one sometimes being sufficient, recovery usually taking 
place in from twelve to thirty-six hours. Pure alcohol in one- 
half the dose may take the place of the whiskey or brandy. The 
body should be kept warm with plenty of light woolen blankets. 
Veterinary surgeons or those who have hypodermic syringes 
will get excellent results by injecting ten grains of pilocarpin 
combined with two grains of physostigmine (eserine), in which 
case remedies 1 and 2 need not be employed. 
Intertrachial injections give better and quicker results than 
when injected under the skin. 
If the above treatment is resorted to in the early stages of 
the disease, before the power of swallowing is lost, nearly every 
case will recover. 
Prevention .—This disease is easily prevented, but somewhat 
difficult to cure. For two weeks previous to calving diminish the 
food. Keep the bowels active by small doses of epsom salts or 
a laxative diet. Avoid all highly nutritious food. The common 
practice with some people of giving extra feed at this period to 
increase the flow of milk is, without doubt, the most prolific 
cause of this disease. 
THE USE OF NARCOTICS IN PAINFUL OPERATIONS. 
By Peof. Be. Essee. 
Translated by John Faust, V.S. 
He enumerates the many painful operations on domestic 
animals necessarily prolonged in operation. His experience con¬ 
vinces him that all operations under narcotics can be done more 
successfully and in less time than without them. The following 
is the method used by him on over two hundred horses, with uni¬ 
form and satisfactory results: He used ether and chloroform 
together, and most generally a third, namely, morphine. 
A few minutes before the operation lie injects 0.5-0.8 
