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CORRESPONDENCE. 
Nashville, Tenn. —The examination of herds of milch 
cows for tuberculosis is now going on in this state. The sani¬ 
tary board has full power to test cattle. The counties in which 
animals are slaughtered have to pay for same at a valuation 
placed on them by two disinterested parties. 
There are no special laws in Kentucky, Mississippi, Kansas, 
Oklahoma, Florida, Wyoming, Idaho, South Dakota, Arkansas, 
Nevada and Virginia. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
SCHMIDT’S TREATMENT FOR PARTURIENT PARESIS. 
Mt. Sterling, III., May 29, 1899. 
Editors American Veterinary Review : 
Gentlemen:— I wish to report that I am using Dr. Schmidt’s 
treatment for parturient paresis this year with the most satis¬ 
factory results. I have treated twelve cases up to this date with 
a loss of three. The disease is more prevalent this year than I 
ever saw before. I can account for it in this way : The grass is 
very rank and rich, and cattle are fatter than they are ordinarily. 
Later 1 expect to give a report in detail, as I have watched my 
cases closely. Yours truly, 
E. M. Nighbert. 
MORE EXPERIENCE WITH THE IODIDE OF POTASSIUM TREAT¬ 
MENT FOR PARTURIENT PARESIS. 
Columbiana, Ohio, June 15, 1899. 
Editors American Veterinary Reviezv : 
Dear Sirs : — Have just finished with my seventh ease of 
parturient paresis treated by the Schmidt method. The last 
three cases died, but in every instance I was called too late to 
be of any service, the weather, too, being very hot. No. 5 died 
in four hours. Both 5 and 6 were comatose with oral breathing 
when first seen by me. No. 5 had had a swollen udder for two 
or three days prior, and the owner had applied meat tryings all 
over the gland, and I noticed when I removed the faeces quite a 
quantity of clotted blood, a vermillion color. I11 reading up the 
subject in Zuill’s translation of Friedberger and Frohner’s 
u Pathology and Therapeutics,” Vok I., F see that they make 
mention of the fact that in meat and fish-brine poisoning the 
blood is of a vermillion color. After death I examined the 
blood by cutting into the jugular vein, when I found it rather 
dark. This cow went down 011 the second day after calving. 
