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a report from each practitioner who lias used the treatment, for 
I know there are a good many practitioners in whose hands the 
treatment has not been a success, but if we only get reports 
from those having had good results the impression that goes out 
is incorrect. . » 
I have tried to study out why it is that the treatment lias 
apparently been successful in some hands and unsuccessful in 
others. In the majority of cases, I do not believe the unsuccess 
is the result of carelessness of application. In my own case I 
am sure it is not, and I can only solve the problem, then, with 
the thought that the difference is in the severity of the cases. 
I notice in many of the cases reported that the disease did 
not attack the cows until from the second to the fourth day 
after the calf birth. Also, that the reports say, u could scarcely 
hold her head up,” etc. We know that the cases that come on, 
or develop early aftei the birth of the calf are the most severe, 
and that as more time intervenes between the time of birth and 
the appearance of the disease, the more mild is the attack. 
I do not know of any reason why the disease should be any 
more severe or deadly in its attack on Iowa cattle, or on the 
cattle of this particular section than any other, but I do know 
that a very large per cent, of the cases that I see are those in 
which the attack comes on during the first twenty-four hours, 
and instead of “ scarcely being able to hold up their heads,” 
the\ are stretched out broadside on the ground, and more than 
likely in the blazing hot sun. 
In one report the author says he finds it unnecessary to use 
any other treatment. In fully seventy-five per cent, of the 
cases that I treat I find them more or less tympanitic, and 
demanding special treatment for that condition. ' 
In January, 1898, through the kindness of a friend who had 
been in correspondence with Dr. Schmidt, I learned of his 
treatment before it was generally known in this country. Early 
in the year I tried it on a few cases, but the results were not 
gratifying. I had been using the intravenous injection of a 
salt solution, with apparently* better success than anv other 
