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W. A. McCLANAHAN. 
position you occupy in relation to this subject. As physicians 
are you not to a certain degree guardians of the public health, 
and is it not a duty incumbent upon you to educate your patrons 
to a just appreciation of the dangers that lie hidden from view 
in the meat and milk products of tuberculous cattle ? 
In compiling this paper I have consulted such authorities as 
were at my disposal. 
A NEW TREATMENT FOR AZOTURIA IN THE HORSE. 
By W. A. McCeanahan, D. V. M., Redding, Iowa. 
This is a disease that I have studied a great deal, because I 
was convinced that all old-line treatments did very little, if any¬ 
thing to check the progress of the disease. The only good it 
did was to keep the excretory organs open, so as to get rid of 
the poisonous principle, whatever it might be, as fast as 
possible. 
I always dreaded to have a man come into my office and 
give me the symptoms of a case of azoturia, as I do with any 
disease that we have no successful treatment for. 
I read with much interest the article in the February num¬ 
ber of the American Veterinary Review by Prof. Ligniere, 
on the new theory of the cause of this trouble. And as 
Schmidt’s treatment has proven to us that we were mistaken 
in the cause of parturient paresis, I thought we might be also 
mistaken in the cause of azoturia. I was much disappoint¬ 
ed that Prof. Figniere did not have more for us on treat¬ 
ment. 
So I began to think what I would do in my next case. I 
thought that if it was caused by a germ in the subarachnoid 
space, an internal antiseptic would be indicated. So I decided 
to give potassium iodide in large doses for its antiseptic effect. 
It was but a few days when an opportunity came to try it. 
It was a horse that had taken azoturia while going home from 
town. The owner lived about one mile out. It came on about 
