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of the disease, that the patients come under treatment at the 
earliest possible moment after the appearance of the paralytic 
symptoms, best while the animal still stands. 
Although results of the treatment rest until now upon the 
foregoing investigations, which under the conditions from eco¬ 
nomic considerations could only be pursued to a certain limit, 
yet 46 out of 50 affected cows or 92 per cent, have recovered. 
Only 2 cows died and 2 were slaughtered, while symptoms 
of milk fever were still present. But I do not attribute so 
much importance to these highly favorable results as to the typi¬ 
cal course of the disease after the infusion, upon the unusually 
rapid recovery of a large portion of the very sick patients, and 
the sudden checking of the disease as soon as treatment is be¬ 
gun in mildly affected patients. True, 3 or 4 animals died, part 
from slaughter and part in consequence of inflammation of the 
lungs, which I look always upon as cases of the improper use of 
medicines per os. According to my experience most of these 
cases can be avoided, as a rule at least, if the veterinarian is 
called and attends early. 
The iodo-potassium iodide solution seems to have had neither 
more favorable nor more poisonous action than the pure iodide 
of potash solution. On the contrary it appears according to 
No. 18 that the first had a somewhat irritant effect upon the 
udder. Sodium iodide was only used once (in No. 19); that the 
result was less favorable may be accidental. Of potassium 
iodide the dose of 7 to 10 grammes in i liter of water has been 
shown to be the best. The potassium infusion has also been 
used alone in some cases without other treatment of symptoms 
and have still had in such cases a typical course. In very sick 
animals a more energetic absorption of potassium iodide takes 
place, than in the mildly diseased, partly because the previ¬ 
ously mentioned absorption of fluids bears a certain relation to 
the grade of the disease, in part also, because the milk secretion 
is most checked in the most serious cases, so that the infused 
solution does not meet with so large a milk stream from the 
alveoli and consequently can penetrate the same easier and more 
