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tlie cow was rubbed and covered with woolen blankets, and received clysters 
with the addition of common salt and oil every 2 to 3 hours. The handling oc¬ 
curred in the evening. It can be imagined that I awaited, with not a little in¬ 
terest news the next day regarding the course of the disease, ‘as well as the 
outward effects of the treatment. 
The cow had lain very quiet for some hours, had then lifted up her head 
and little by little assumed a more lively appearance. After 8 hours she was 
standing up and showed very fair appetite, yet the owner complained that 12 
hours after the treatment the cow still gave no milk at all. At 16 hours, that 
is, 8 hours after convalescence, the milk secretion began again to show activity 
and when I inquired two days later regarding the milk flow and appearance of 
the cow, I was informed that the cow yielded abundant milk and that the milk 
had been quite normal throughout the interval. • 
This was indeed a hopeful beginning. That the cow recovered, to that I 
attached no weight, but that she became better moment after moment after the 
treatment, although in my judgment the case was taken in the progressive 
istage of the malady, that nevertheless she recovered in 8 hours, an unusually 
short time, and especially, that the milk secretion could be reduced quite to zero, 
these circumstances indicated strongly, that efficacy of treatment and an influ¬ 
ence upon the course of the disease must have been attained ; for all these con¬ 
ditions could not well be accidents. To this was added, that the infusion had 
not injured the udder and though the milk flow was somewhat smaller than 
usual during the first few days, yet this played only a subordinate role. 
In the Danish Maanedsskrift fur Dry lager, Vol. IX, 7th number, I have re¬ 
corded fairly detailed clinical notes on 50 patients. Since however it is a la¬ 
borious task to read all these in their entirety I will limit myself here to quot¬ 
ing therefrom only a few examples, some followed by favorable, others with 
unfavorable results, and especially some cases in which the handling was 
varied. 
In Nos. 2 to 8 it was the plan to fill the infusion apparatus with the pot. iod. 
solution, before the milk catheter was inserted into the teat, and also in that 
the funnel was always partly filled during the infusion so that the injection of 
air into the udder would be avoided. Besides, one of the patients received tw’o 
liters of the pot. iod. infusion in the udder at one time. In two cows the solu¬ 
tion, well mixed wdth milk, was milked out after a quarter of an hour, where¬ 
upon a like dose was repeated. In two other patients the treatment was re¬ 
peated after ii and 20 hours, because the patients at the end of these periods 
had not yet arisen. 
No. 9. September 25, 1896. Medium sized red cow, aged 12 years, the best 
milker in the entire dairy. She had calved 48 hours before the first signs of 
illness were noted. She had yielded at first about 20 pounds (10 kilogrammes) 
of milk, later the calf had sucked. She was milked three times daily besides. 
Shortly prior to observation she had lain stretched out on one side, but she had 
been turned up on her sternum and blanketed. She w'as very comatose, alter¬ 
nately stretched the head straight out and bent it to the side, the eyes could be 
touched by the fingers without producing reaction. The tongue was badly para¬ 
lyzed. Horns, ears, muzzle, the tongue tip, as well as the legs were very cold ; 
