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cine into the udder. I knew, however, through the contribu¬ 
tions of Gillebean and Hess * * that most drugs irritate the udder 
and that caution must be used in introducing medicines into 
that organ. Since I have proposed that the disease has its origin 
in an abnormal secretion of colostrum, it naturally followed to 
test the injection of a potassium iodide solution since thereby 
the secretion and the correlated forced casting off of the colos¬ 
trum corpusdes thereby decreases and the iodine combinations 
would exercise a neutralizing influence upon the toxin. Iodine 
salts promotes, as is known, the resorption of pathological ac¬ 
cumulation by splitting up within the organism into free iodine 
which combines with the pathological products.f How the 
combination acts is not yet fully known. But I think myself 
warranted in supposing that in this way compounds can be 
formed which can no longer possess a ptomaine-like character, 
and that such iodine compounds in the lacteal cells would form’ 
first and most easily by the application of iodine in the udder 
itself. But it can be doubted if we are in a position to intro¬ 
duce such a solution into every part of the udder; likewise it 
must at first meet with a milk stream, with which it must mix 
before it can penetrate deeper. It would not suffice to inject 
the medicine into the udder, as is usual, with a small syringe, 
since a greater volume must be introduced in order to penetrate 
to every part of^ the gland. I devised, therefore, an infusion 
apparatus for this purpose. It consists of a milk catheter of 
comparatively large size, a rubber tube about i ^ meters (5 feet) 
long, and a glass funnel. 
(^1 o be co 7 itimied,) 
The “ Proceedings of the 35th Annual Session of the United 
we are informed 
by Chairman Williams, be ready for mailing to the members by 
November i. 1 he copies will be bound in cloth this vear in¬ 
stead of paper, as formerly, and from advance sheets it "appears 
to be mech anically in advance of previous issues. 
* Ref. von Friis in : Maanedsskrift for Drylager Bd. 7, S. 152. 
f Frohner. Arzneimittellehre, 1890, S. 262. ' ' 
