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now feeds as well as any animal with the exception of requiring 
a little more time to eat. 
PARTURIENT PARESIS.* 
By R. C. Hiee, V. S., West Alexandria, O. 
Having noticed different opinions on the curative effects of 
iodide of potassium in the treatment of parturient paresis, I have 
watched with greater interest and kept a record of the last 12 
cases. I will not detail each and every case, as the symptoms are 
apparently the same. Of course there is a difference in the se¬ 
verity of the attacks, owing to how soon it has followed partur¬ 
ition, etc., but as a rule, when the veterinarian is called, the 
patient is unable to rise and lies in that same old position. 
Mode of Treatment .—Wash off udder with tolerably warm 
water. Have instrument thoroughly sterilized. Dissolve iodide 
potassium, 3 ij, in a quart of water that has been boiled. Have 
water as warm as you could drink it without any inconvenience 
at time of injection, and inject one-half pint in each teat. Turn 
the patient on her back and work the solution well through the 
udder. Then place the patient on her sternum and support her 
there. Draw off the urine, cover patient well, and give 
nux vomica, 3ij, on tongue, following with the nux eveiy three 
hours. Leave irritant to be applied on lumbar region in an hour. 
With this treatment 75 per cent, recovered, and in every case, 
except one , the patient was on her feet within six hours. This 
one I gave a second injection at bed time, and left her go for the 
night. On arrival next morning she was up and eating. 
I do not wish to be radical, but the three cases that died were 
no fair test for the iodide of potassium, as they had been given 
large drenches, horns bored, tail split, etc. 
EVERSION OF UTERUS, t 
By R. C. Hile, V. S., West Alexandria, O. 
Last spring I was called to see a cow which had complete 
eversion of the uterus. The owner stated that he noticed her 
straining in the evening and thought she would have the calf by 
morning. 
So, I suppose from all appearances, the uterus had been out 
most of the night, for it was so congested that it was the color 
of liver and full of dirt and chaff. But, luckily, the after-birth 
* Read before Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association, 
f Read before Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association. 
