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cooling lotions such as nitre and common salt dissolved in water, 
or Goulard's extract of lead, vinegar and water. The teats may 
be occluded with thick clotted matter, which the occasional use of 
the teat syphon or silver probe may assist in removing, and thus 
allow the more liquid portions to escape. At times the coagulum 
is of such consistence as entirely to plug up the passage, and can 
neither pass itself nor allow the thinner portions to escape. To 
remedy this I have heard of cutting off the extremity of the teat, 
but while this may afford relief to the quarter it precludes the 
chance of a useful recovery. I have read of a more approved 
method, that of making a perpendicular incision in the teat, by 
which the matter may be discharged, and then there will be a 
chance of the teat healing up and fulfilling its normal function, 
should the secretion be restored. In all severe cases after the 
more urgent symptoms have been combated or the case has 
become chronic, good support is necessary, and the continued use 
of tonics, stimulants, diuretics, and carminatives should be per¬ 
severed in. 
Such treatment should be gradually withdrawn as renewed 
appetite and rumination, freedom from pain, reduced swelling, 
and it may be restored secretion indicate a healthy termination. 
The terminations of mammitis are—First, resolution in mild 
cases. This will sometimes take place in a few days, at other 
times in a much longer space of time. The inflammatory action 
subsides and the secretion of milk returns. In other cases, 
although the disease subsides the quarter of the udder ceases to 
secrete milk, and we have what is called a blind quarter, and this 
may be considered the 
Second best termination. Again we find the disease assuming 
an indolent form, requiring the use of external stimuli, and often 
ending in induration, or the 
Third termination. In such a case the use of iodine or iodide 
of potassium internally, and iodine ointment externally to the 
parts affected, are amongst the best remedies. Amputation of 
the organ has been accomplished successfully, thus allowing the 
animal to be made fit for the butcher. 
Fourth, suppuration. This is a very common termination. 
Under some circumstances the matter can be drawn through the 
teat, as already referred to ; in others, abscesses form in the deep- 
seated tissues, requiring free incisions, bathing, and the use of 
digestive ointment. 
Fifth, gangrene or mortification. "When this takes place large 
diseased portions of the udder become separated and drop off or 
fall out, and are sometimes the better to be assisted in their 
removal. 
