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H. E. TITUS. 
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anxious to do everything possible to stamp out contagious disease, 
and thereby give protection to the people and property of the 
State. 
Now, gentlemen, the people must be educated along these 
lines, and when they once understand that quarantine means 
protection to life and property, they will not only demand that 
none but healthy animals enter the State, but that all diseased 
animals in the State shall be destroyed. Should this be accom¬ 
plished a wonderful impetus will be given our stock, meat and 
dairy interest, and Iowa with one bound will leap to the front 
as the greatest stock and dairy country in the world. 
[From Merck's Arc hives. ] 
PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS ON ARECOLINE 
HYDROBROMATE. 
By H. E. Titus, D. V. M., Ames, Ia. 
I.—BOVINE. 
The subject was an aged roan cow weighing eleven hun¬ 
dred pounds, in fair condition. 
Administered twenty milligrammes of arecoline hydrobro- 
mate subcutaneously. 
Normal pulse, 66; temperature, 101.4; respiration, 22. 
8 minutes. Salivation. 
15 minutes. Uneasiness, abdominal pains, whisking of the tail, and 
shifting from one hind foot to the other, with marked increase in saliva¬ 
tion. 
20 minutes Pulse 66 ; temperature, 101.4; respiration 22 ; frequent 
borborygmi in left hypochondriac region, lasting for an hour after in¬ 
jection. 
1 hour and 20 minutes. All symptoms had subsided. No local in¬ 
flammation at point of injection. 
II.—BOVINE. 
This was the same animal as in case number one, but the 
injection was made two days later. 
Administered fifty milligrammes subcutaneously. 
Normal pulse, 70; temperature, 101.2 ; respiration, 16. 
7 minutes. Marked salivation and increased secretion from lachrymal 
glands. 
20 minutes. Pulse, 66; temperature, 101.1 ; respiration, 20; slight 
