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disease, and I know not where to claim advantage, unless it is 
for watchful care and closely following and combatting the 
symptoms as they present themselves, and not being too heroic 
with any indicant less toxic effects result; for the animal might 
well be said to be in a “precarious condition,”’and I do not 
hesitate in saying that I think a great number of animals have 
been destroyed in trying to force nature, rather than allowing 
the disease to run its febrile course. For in giving repeatedly 
powerful febrifuges, etc., per mouth, while the animal is in a 
comatose condition, is like pouring medicine down a dead ani¬ 
mal, for it lies dormant in the stomach, and when the animal 
revives it all takes effect at once and proves a toxic dose. 
I strongly believe in the pot. iodide treatment, but 
have never used it as prescribed by Schmidt, but give it per 
mouth, and have, as I believed, obtained good results; still I 
ca - n j jj£ a dily see and understand that by direct communication 
through the milk veins it is at once assimilated and acted upon 
by the system, and as I have heretofore mentioned that perhaps 
Schmidt’s treatment is only a more successful way of administer- 
ing the diug, and that the same results may be obtained from 
hypodermically applying it, and thus avoiding the impaired lac¬ 
tation as resulting from the iodine being set free in the former 
instance. 
My first step toward treatment consists in securing a good 
comfortable place, with as much room as possible, still protected 
fiom extreme heat or cold ; have the place thickly bedded, as it 
facilitates keeping the animal well upon the sternum (with head 
around to side, which I consider an essential thing, for I believe 
it avoids cerebral congestion, as it results where the animal is 
left sprawling on its side, i. e ., if the animal is down) ; draw the 
urine, give enemas to ascertain the condition of the bowels, then 
give a dose of oleum lini, raw, and turpentine as the case may 
demand ; from 1 y 2 qts. to 2 qts. of the oil, with from 1 to 3 
oz. of oil of turpentine. I have great faith in turpentine in this 
disease as a stimulant. It is discharged by the kidneys, bron¬ 
chial membrane and skin, stimulating these channels of excre- 
