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ing for about two and a half hours. She had defecated several times and the 
appetite soon returned. She gave : 
On August i6, 4.5 liters of milk 
“ 17, 8.2 “ “ “ 
“ 18, 12. “ “ “ 
“ 19, 13.5 “ “ “ 
The infusion of an iodine salt in the udder^ especially when 
acco7npanied with the introduction of atmospheric air^ gives the 
promise of a quite typical result and has in a large measure 
brought about remarkably pro 77 ipt recovery. 
In most patients the eomatose condition disappeared in 
course of 4 to 6 hours, and in the very sick cows where the 
temperature was subnormal, this began to rise immediately 
after the infusion and inereased at times in the course of an 
hour about iC°. 
AbotU half of the patieiits cicred stood up and were free fi'om 
paralytic sympto 7 ns after a course of 6 to 10 hours. 
Thirty-six stood up in course of the first 24 hours, 6 in the 
second 24 hours, 2 in the third 24 hours, i had to be helped up 
after a course of 6 days on account of paralysis of the posterior 
limbs, and one failed to get up on account of gangrenous foreign 
body pneumonia (shluck pneumonie). It depends in part more¬ 
over, upon aceidents, whether the convalescent stands up after 
the paralysis has been removed. Then it is not certain that 
each cow gets up as soon as she is able to do so, and the duration 
of the paralytic period is consequently shorter than would be 
reeorded. In cows cured by the ordinary methods, on the con¬ 
trary, the disease continues as a rule for 2 to 3 times 24 hours.* 
Patients in the first stages of the disease whieh under ordi¬ 
nary treatment almost always grow worse and worse, always in 
an opposite degree, become constantly better and better after the 
infusion and in the eourse of a few hours are almost sound 
again. It is therefore of all the more importance for the course 
* Friedberger und Frohner, Lehrbuch der Speciellen Pathologic und Therapie 1889, 
Bd. I, S. 442. According to H. C. Hansen, Tidsskrift f. Veter. Bd. 15, S. 286, the dis- 
ease continues ordinarily 2^ times 24 hours. According to L. Andersen, Tidsskrift f. 
Veter. Bd. 23, S. 193, the disease continues in animals which recover, according to the 
data given, on an average 54 hours. 
