SCHMIDT TREATMENT FOR PARTURIENT PARESIS. 
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SCHMIDT TREATMENT FOR PARTURIENT PARESIS. 
By J. C. Callander, V. S., Parkersburg, W. Va. 
For some time I have been thinking that perhaps it was my 
duty to my fellow practitioners that I should record my way of 
using the Schmidt treatment in parturient paresis, and tell of 
the success I have had with its use. ^ 
I have been in active practice for about 13 years, and have 
always dreaded the so-called cases of parturient apoplexy. If I 
was called to a sick cow, a common question for me to ask was: 
How does she act? ” The owner usually would say : u Well, 
she was fresh yesterday morning ; now she is down and can’t 
get up. Hurry up or she will be dead before you get here.” I 
would say to myself, “ I hope she will be.” Of course I would 
go, and use the old line of treatment. Sometimes, to my sur¬ 
prise, she would get better, if she had strength to withstand my 
treatment and the disease combined. Usually I had to hear the 
same old song— u She died last night.” Now the tune has 
changed. 
I keep a quart sterilized bottle and rubber funnel with 
piece of tubing attached, and at the end of it a silver milking 
tube ; also one ounce of iodide of potassium in two ounces of 
distilled water. In another small bottle equal parts of acid 
carbolic and glycerine. All this I keep in a box in the same 
place ready for use. When at my destination I ask to have a 
quart of water boiled. This I put into my sterilized bottle— 
adding one-half of my iodide solution and two drachms of car¬ 
bolic acid and glycerine solution. I set bottle in cold water 
and allow it to cool to blood heat. I then prepare the udder 
by milking out and washing it with carbolic or sublimate solu¬ 
tion. Then I insert tube ; have an assistant pour a quarter of 
the solution into each teat. This being done, I massage the 
udder fairly roughly for five minutes. Place animal on sternum, 
with fore and hind feet in natural position, with head turned to 
side. Give instructions to keep her in that position and turn 
her from side to side every two hours. Also, to milk all that 
