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treating the case a few days longer. I scarified the swellings 
along the abdomen and gave laxatives, febrifuges, and diuretics, 
with hot fomentations over the shoulder. On the 12th I again 
saw her, and in assisting her to rise I found that she had but 
little control of her posterior extremities. 
I made a rectal examination and found a large mass extend¬ 
ing around and posterior of the kidneys, painless on pressure, 
which I diagnosed as a melanotic tumor of large dimensions. 
I advised the destruction of the animal, but the owner 
thought otherwise, and wanted treatment continued, which I 
did for several days longer, when he destroyed her. The post¬ 
mortem was made by the owner, and I can only give his de¬ 
scription of the case. He brought me the tumor that he took 
out of the abdomen ; also the one out of the shoulder, the 
latter being a conglomeration of tumors, the whole mass weigh¬ 
ing 24 lbs. This animal was raised and owned by this man 
up to the time of her death, and never had there been any 
tumor seen by him until the one on the shoulder. 
The question is, did the insertion of the seton in the shoul¬ 
der stimulate the growth of these tumors to such an extent as 
to cause paralysis of the posterior extremities ? 
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GERMAN REVIEW. 
By Prof. Olof Schwarzkopf, Flushing, New York. 
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Statistics of Results from Schmidt’s Treatment for 
Parturient Paresis. —District Veterinarian Neverman pre¬ 
sents in the Berliner Thierarztliche Wochenschrift (No. I., 
1899) a statistical summary of Schmidt’s treatment of milk 
fever, collected from the reports of 41 veterinarians. Of 358 
cases, 296 were cured, 25 died, and 37 were slaughtered before 
recovery or death. The percentage is thus as follows : Re¬ 
covery, 82.68 per cent. ; aeath, 6.98 per cent. ; slaughter, 10.33 
per cent. Recovery takes place at varying times, but 55.5 per 
cent, of the animals treated stood up within ten hours after the 
injection. The milk secretion remains decreased during five 
to eight days after injection, but the milk itself appears nor¬ 
mal in color, smell and test. Only two cases of mastitis iwere 
reported as following the treatment, but diarrhoea, often quite 
profuse, and a slimy nasal discharge, have been reported in a 
majority of cases following the iodide of potassium treatment. 
