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him that she would not live through the night. She died in 
thirty minutes. I held a post-mortem and found the stomach 
and contents in good shape, which the owner admitted. In the 
small bronchial tubes there was quite an amount of ingested . 
food, some pieces half an inch long. The small intestines for 
about thirty feet, 6 or 8 feet anterior to the rectum, were filled 
with bloody water. The owner was a very poor nurse. 
Schmidt’s treatment is all right if applied early enough, but 
when foreign substances are allowed to fall into the trachea 
nothing will save them. The first four cases I treated, and 
which I reported through the Review some time since, were all 
treated early in the attack. 
J. B. Caughey. 
EVIDENCE FROM AN INTELLIGENT LAYMAN. 
lo the Editor of the Breeder's Gazette : 
One day last week I found a cow lying outstretched in the 
pasture unable to rise and almost unable to hold up her head. 
Her calf was three days old. In the morning she had seemed 
all right, although it was noted that she gave less milk than she 
ought. It was a plain case of milk fever, parturient paresis, so 
much dreaded by all dairymen. This cow was a Holstein-Fries- 
ian, a notably good milker, in pretty good condition. When I 
saw her at noon I pronounced her dead, or as good as dead, but 
I sent for a veterinarian anyway and putting her on a sled drew 
her to the shade of a tree. When the doctor arrived and looked 
at her he pronounced her pretty bad and fast sinking. Then 
he asked me if I knew of the new treatment for this disease. I 
expressed my ignorance and he told me of Dr. Schmidt’s experi¬ 
ments in Denmark. He wished to try the treatment on this 
cow. Having no faith in any other treatment, I told him to go 
ahead. 
First he gave her a draught of aloes, I believe, then carefully 
milked her, drawing out every bit of the milk. He washed 
her udder carefully with an antiseptic, and with some sterilized 
water in which he dissolved potassium iodide he injected into 
her udder about three pints. He used a fountain syringe for 
this. After this he gave her a copious injection of warm water 
and left her. That was about 3 o’clock. She could barely hold 
up her head. At 6 she was very much brighter and drank 
water. At 7 she drank more water and seemed almost ready to 
get up. After dark she got up unaided and has been all right 
since, although giving only enough milk yet for her calf. 
