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treatment that I liad tried. I then concluded that if there was 
any virtue in potassium iodide in treating “milk fever” I 
would combine the two forms of treatment by dissolving the 
potassium in the salt solution and inject intravenously instead 
of in the udder. That treatment seemed to act nicely with 
several bad cases, but later everything died that I attempted to 
use it on. Then the good reports from the udder injections 
again prompted me to take up that form of treatment and give 
it another trial. 
I have just recently used this treatment on eight cases, three 
of which recovered and the other five died. 
No. /.—This case came down with the disease the next day 
after the calf was born. I saw her in the evening ; she could 
not get up. In addition to using the potassium iodide solution, 
fluid extract of digitalis was used in small repeated doses, for the 
pulse w 7 as very w r eak. Twenty-four hours later there w r as no 
improvement, and the potassium iodide solution v 7 as repeated. 
This case died the next day. 
No. II .—This cow was down, but could hold her head up. 
The attack came on next day after calving. I saw her soon 
after the disease was noticeable, and made the injection. There 
was some bloating and sodii hyposulph. was given. The case 
improved slowly and got up two days later, and finally re¬ 
covered. 
No. III .—Cow was down, but would hold up her head at 
times, was considerably bloated vdien I saw her. The attack 
came on about twenty hours after the calf’s birth. Treatment 
was begun two or three hours later. Pot. iod. in solution was 
injected, and sodii hyposulphite left to be given as necessary. 
Also fluid extract digitalis. During the first eighteen hours the 
case seemed to improve, then got worse, and the injection of 
pot. iod. was repeated. For a time there seemed to be im¬ 
provement again, but it was of short duration, and the cow died 
the next day. 
No. IV .—This cow was found down in the morning after 
having her calf the day beforehand treatment was begun three 
