Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-07
New Treatment of muk Fever.

A correspondent of Farm and Home,
 London, England, says: Favorable reports-mostly, however, from conti- mental sources-continue to come to hand of the success attending Schmidt's new treatment of milk fever. The current number of the Veterinarian contains a translation from foreign contemporary which may be of in terest to w R. who makes some in- quiry as to the details of the treat ment, and others who may be troubled with this pest of dairyland. The translation nuns as follows: M Yonker. who practices in district where milk fever is common. decided to give Schmidts treatment a trial. The sick animal is we'll attended to, and the teats are washed with soap and water, and then disinfeeted with a solution of lysoI. A tube of caout- chouc. six feet or more in length, car ries at one end funnel, at the other q teat syphon, which is introduced in the teat When everything is ready, seven to eight grammes of iodide of potassium is dissolved in a litre of water recently boiled which is allowed to cool to 40 degrees or 42 degrees Cen tigrade Each quarter receives a quar- Ser of this solution. At the time of in- jeeton the practitioner should mas sage the quarter in order to facilitate the penetration of the injection, and to allow it to penetrate along all the milk passages to the aeini of the gland. When the pulse was weak, Yonker gave 9 hypodermie injection of caffeine. At the same time Inc gave do3e of aloes and saline enemata. But as the results might be due to something other than the iodide of potassium, the author resolved to use nothing but the iodide, and in this manner discovered its real value To this end he injected the solution mentioned above by means of a pewter syringe attached to ea0ut- chouc tube. The results obtained were surprising; five COWS thus treated speedily recovered, although three of them were very seriously ill indeed. M. Yonker thinks that these results cannot be easily passed over He thinks that the theory that attributes milk fever as due to the development of toxalbumin in the udder is true one. Lower organisms, still unrecog- nized and unknown, may gain access to the udder by the teat lumen, and set up decomposition of the colostrum. Todide of potassium acts upon these organisms as it acts upon the actino- myces in a specific fashion. A certain quantity of the salt will be absorbed, and this may neutralize that portion of the toxin that has already gained the circulation. This last explanation may be offered for the rapid disap- pearance of the grave symptoms es- tabIished through paralysis of the pneumo-gastric nerve, due to the ae- tion of the toxin upon the nucleus Of origin of the nerve within the medulla oblongata. The author is of opinion that prevention may be established by either exhibiting the drug by the mouth or injecting in the udder prior to calving'
 "A modification or improvement in the apparatus for the injection of the potassium iodide solution into the ud- der has been introduced by M. Vinck. He employs a caoutchouc tube and fun nel into which the solution is poured, and along which it runs, and at the lower extremity the rubber tube ter inmates in four narrower tubes, each having attached to it a teat syphon. There are thus as many syphons as quarters, and all the quarters are in jected simultaneously. Schmidt insists on the superior benefit resulting from injecting the solution of iodide salt with atmospheric air.
 'The idea that the cause of milk fever is a poison or toxin in the udder, which is produced in connection with the colostrum, is steadily gaining ground, and acting on this hypothesis MT. w. Hunter, MR.C.V.s., of New castle-on-Tyne. is employing more direct agent than iodide of potassium in the form of chinosol Fifteen grains of chinosol to each pint of water is stated to have been used in the suc- cessfuI experiments conducted by this practitioner.