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No. 6 was an eight-year-old cow, which calved in the even¬ 
ing and was found down the next morning, remaining conscious 
until i p. m., at which time I was sent for, seven miles away 
and when I arrived she was comatose and breathing through 
the mouth. I informed the owner that I was afraid it was too 
late. I, however, applied the potassium iodide treatment. The 
temperature rose from 96 degrees to 105 in five hours ; respi¬ 
rations short. Some regurgitated food about the nostrils and 
some, I think, found its way into the trachea. She died the next 
day, without ever rallying, not being able to keep her on her 
sternum. 
No. 7 was an eight-year-old, and had dropped her calf at 
noon on Friday, June 9, being unable to rise at 5 o’clock the 
next morning. The owner gave her a quart of tansy tea, and 
came to. see me at 5.30 p. m. He said she was 011 her side 
at that tune, but had been 011 her sternum all day. I arrived at 
the place at 6.30 p. m., and found her 011 her side, but not 
wholly insensible. I drew her urine, milked her out and 
thoroughly washed and disinfected her udder. I then injected 
I 5 ° grains of the potassium iodide solution into the four teats 
of the. udder, propped her upon her sternum, and left at half¬ 
past eight. At 9 a. M. Monday I returned, and found that she 
had rested , well all night, was still slightly comatose, and re¬ 
peated the iodide solution, giving 120 grains this time. As the 
heart’s action was rather weak, I gave hypodermically 1 10 
gram of mtro glycerine and 1.8 grain of strychnine, which im¬ 
proved it very much. About noon I removed the calf, and she 
seemed to pay a little attention to it. Toward evening she 
raised her head and seemed a little groggy. During Monday 
night she bloated some, and the owner said that about 2 A. m 
she became conscious, her bowels moved, and she dranl* some 
water. On Tuesday the owner came to see me and said she was 
still down and had not eaten anything and was breathing short. 
I went to see her at 2 p. m., and found that her bowels had 
ceased to act, and there was quite a discharge from the nostrils, 
mixed with grass and mucus. I informed the owner she had 
bronchial trouble and would die. There was 110 rise in temper¬ 
ature, it being the same as the day before (101) I could not 
convince the owner of the seat of the trouble ; he would have it 
that the trouble was in the third stomach. I gave her some 
stimulants as she was trembling and striking or kicking at her 
abdomen. To satisfy him I gave her two grains of eserine and 
pilocarpine (Merck’s preparations) hypodermically, and informed 
