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of the graduates : J. B. Weir, Smicksburg, Pa. ; T. P. Pomeroy, 
Freeport, Mich. ; A. E. McCall, Memphis, Mich. ; F. O. N. 
Hovey, Coopersville, Mich. ; and H. E. Hickok, Grand Rapids. 
Drs. Weir and Pomeroy received honorable reward for high 
attainments in their work ; Hovey and McCall received honor¬ 
able mention for second and third places. In the junior class 
C. E. Dornheim, Providence, R. I., took first; A. B. Warrener, 
Portsmouth, Ohio, second, and G. S. Thorp, third prize in 
anatomy. In medicine, B. F. Baldwin, first, C. E. Dornheim, 
second, and A. B. Warrener, third. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
IODIDE OF POTASSIUM IN PARTURIENT PARESIS AND 
AZOTURIA. 
Editors American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sirs :—I have given the iodide of potassium treat¬ 
ment both for parturient paresis and azoturia with the greatest 
of success. 
I have tried the Schmidt treatment in three or four cases, 
one in particular of which I wish to speak. A thoroughbred 
Jersey cow, six years old, was attacked within six hours after 
parturition, and was seven miles from my office. I was not 
home when telephoned to, and it was four hours after when I 
arrived. I immediately applied the above treatment, and in 
connection I gave 5 iv alcohol every two hours, at first, then 
once in four hours ; also gave physic, linseed oil, one quart, 
turpentine, 3 ij, as recommended. Repeated the treatment 
in eight hours, and after that gave one or two doses before per¬ 
fect recovery. 
Have tried the potassium treatment on four cases of azoturia, 
one severe case of which I will speak. A six-year-old Hamble- 
tonian mare, weight 1000 lbs., had stood in barn several days ; 
was hitched, and attacked before had been driven one-fouith 
mile. She was gotten back to barn and I was immediately sent 
for. Mare was in extreme suffering ; could not move, and the 
perspiration was running down to floor in many streams. I at 
once gave potassium iodide, 3 ss, and applied hot cloths to 
loins, one part vinegar, 3 parts water. Two men began rubbing 
her with straw. In thirty minutes I could see convalescence, 
and after four hours I repeated the medicine. The next morn¬ 
ing mare could walk well, ate well, but showed symptoms of 
