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Another—“ All that has been recommended. Schmidt’s 
treatment with better success. Recovery, probably 60 per cent. 
Pathology—Believe it is due to impression on the brain and 
spinal cord due to ptomaine poisoning or bacteria ; do not be¬ 
lieve all the fault is in the udder.” 
Another—“ Epsom salts, common salt, gamboge ; three 
doses of pulsatilla and liferoot and no more. Recovery 50 to 
75 per cent. Pathology—I think that there is a large amount 
of nutriment in the blood that should go to the calf, or milk 
that is thrown back upon the system, and the large amount of 
blood that don’t find a natural outlet is thrown back on the 
system, influencing the sympathetic system, which causes the 
bad circulation of the brain.” 
In the eleven reports only two give post-mortem conditions. 
One states : “ Brain soft, bloodless and flabby” ; this animal 
must have died after a few days’ illness and the lesions thus 
found were secondary. 
Another states : “I have held many post-mortems and I 
have always found thrombosis and embolism in the pelvic, sac¬ 
ral and also in the mesenteric blood vessels. Congestion of the 
various organs, the result, I think, of vaso-motor troubles. In 
the posterior pelvic and sacral regions the various tissues seem 
bloodless, soft and flabby and in a very dry condition.” 
I wonder if the doctor really meant what he said, i. e ., that 
he found thrombosis and embolism in the pelvic, sacral and 
mesenteric blood vessels, or were they post-mortem clots ? If 
he found thrombosis and embolism, then such conditions must 
have been preceded by disease of the heart or blood vessels. 
An embolism is the obstruction of a blood vessel by an embolus ; 
an embolus is a clot formed in one place and transported by the 
blood to another locality ; such emboli are ante-mortem condi¬ 
tions. 
To recapitulate: Nine gave medicines per mouth; three 
the Schmidt treatment; one the intravenous treatment; two the 
intravenous and Schmidt; two, ice or cold applications to head. 
Of the number who have given medicines per mouth, not 
