A NEW TREATMENT OF PARTURIENT PARESIS OF COWS. 
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principal theories shows that they have ever been influenced 
by the predominant thoughts and discoveries in pathology, and 
they demonstrate the intense desire of our professional prede¬ 
cessors to unravel the mysteries of the nature of this disease. 
If we turn to the therapy of milk fever it is impossible to 
enumerate all the drugs that have been applied and found want¬ 
ing. They number by the hundred; they range from the most 
crude and empirical applications of large quantities of drugs to 
the delicate use of the new biological products, and they all 
have been found worthless or of doubtful value. True, there 
are practitioners who believe they have found a “ sure cure,” 
but sooner or later they will find, as we all have found, that at 
one time we may be quite lucky with a certain kind of treat¬ 
ment while the second or third time we are decidedly unlucky. 
It is as Prof.Yiborg once said : “ Manchmal hilft alles, Manch- 
mal hilft nichts” (Some time anything helps, some time nothing 
helps). I may summarize these points by saying that the me¬ 
dicinal treatment of this disease demonstrates most truthfully 
to the unbiased observer that it is not the drugs that act upon 
the diseased body, but that it is the living organism that reacts 
upon the drugs as long as it is capable of response. If from one 
cause or another the life of the animal is stunned, the so-called 
physiological action of drugs is left to be an empty phrase. 
Nevertheless, there are certain methods of external and in¬ 
ternal application which if employed at the proper time and 
with proper precautions tend to assist the struggling organism 
to overcome its morbid condition. They should never be dis¬ 
pensed with whatever our future treatment may be. The first 
indication to follow is to put the animal in a comfortable posi¬ 
tion on a copious and clean bedding, which is not always an 
easy matter. Then we must attend to the abnormal external 
temperature of the body by the use of external stimulants, 
assisted by friction with brushes and by covering the body in 
woolen blankets. Following this the udder should be thoroughly 
milked out, while we empty the rectum by manual extraction 
of the faeces, injecting immediately afterwards a pint of a mix- 
