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J. SCHMIDT. 
system. We believe from his recital of the incident, together 
with the postscript, that the precaution of preventive treatment 
should be at once adopted ; but trust in any event that nothing 
more serious than an exciting experience may result. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
PARTURIENT PARESIS. 
(THE SO-CALLED CALVING-FEVER OR PARTUR¬ 
IENT APOPLEXY.) 
STUDIKS AND INVESTIGATIONS INTO ITS CAUSE AND 
HANDLING. 
By J. Schmidt, Veterinarian, Koeding, Denmark. 
Translated for the American Veterinary Review, by W. L. Williams, 
New York State Vetermary College. 
{Continued from page 530.') 
No. I. The first patient came under my care March 29, 1896. She was a 
well nourished, very good milk cow, above medium size, 8 years old. She 
had calved 24 hours before the development of the disease and came under my 
care a few hours after the beginning of the affection. She had given suffi¬ 
cient milk after calving ; after the outbreak of the disease she had been bled. 
The cow could not rise, and lay most of the time with her head bent to her 
side , the expression was somewhat listless although the patient was not wholly 
inattentive to her surroundings. The excrement in rectum was not hard, but 
covered with dark, dry crusts ; temperature 38° C. 
The condition in general was that of a patient suffering from an attack of 
medium severity shortly after the beginning, so that under ordinary handling 
she would be expected to become worse. 
The infusion apparatus was laid in lysol Yrater, the udder emptied by milk- 
ing, and the teats cleaned by washing with soap and water and disinfected with 
lysol water. Five grammes potassium iodide were then dissolved in .75 liters 
of freshly sterilized water, the solution cooled to 40° C. and injected into the 
udder through each teat successively. The column of air which existed in the 
tube, was pressed into the mammae along with the infusion, and several times 
during the injection the funnel became empty, through which at times more 
air was forced in. Then the udder was firmly kneaded with the hands, and 
paitlv through this, and partly by stroking from below upwards (massage) the 
solution, together with the included air, was made to penetrate as thoroughly 
as possible into all divisions of the milk ducts and into the lacteal acini. Milk- 
ing the cow was forbidden. Internally an aloe powder was given. In addition 
