Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-21
New Trealment of aIIl. reveE.

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 a foreign contemporary which may be of in- terest to w R. who makes some 1n- quiry as to the details of the treat' ment. and others who may bs troubled with this pest of dairyland. The translation runs as follows: M. Yonker who practices in q district where milk fever is common, decided to give Schmidt's treatment q trial. The sick animal is well attended to, and the teats are washed with soap and water, and then disinfected with q solution of lysol A tube of caout- choue, six feet or more in length, car ries at one end a funnel, at the other 2 teat syphon, which Is introduced m the teat When everything is ready, seven to eight grammes of iodide Of potassium is dissolved in litre ot water recently boiled, which is allowed 10 cool 10 10 degrees or Az degrees Gen. tigrade. Each quarter receives 8 quar- Ter of this solution. At the time of lf- jection the practitioner should mas sage the quarter in order to facilitate the penetration of the injection, and to allow 1t to penetrate along all the milk passages to the aeini of the gland Whea the pulse was weak, Yonker gave & hypodermie injection of caffeine. At Che same tine he gave dose of aloes and saline enemata. But as the results :, might be que to something other thes2O the iodide of potassium the ause zf resolved to use nothing but the ig 8hol and in this manner discovered hifodide value To this end he iniesesdts req solution mentioned above by Eted the a pewter syringe attached t@9means oi chouc tube. The results q heo a eaout- surprising; five cows J9t.6tained were speedily recovered, aI r thus treated them were very se though three oi l M. Yonker thin1 s fiously i'll indeed cannot be 5@ KS that these results thinks thatei easily passed over. He milk feveh the theory that attributes of a to. as due to the development one. , xalbumin in the udder is a true niz F Lower organisms, still unfeeog- te ed and unknown, may gain access the udder by the teat lumen, and et up decomposition of the colostrum.
 Iodide of potassium acts upon these organisms as 1t acts upon the aetino- 90 4,9 Ga 4 Fas , 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- : tablished through paralysis of the pneumo-ga gastric nerve, due to the ac- . ton of the toxin upon the nucleus Of
 origin of the nerve within the meduiia. 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 calying.
 "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 eaoutchouc 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 iu- 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, M.R.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 sue cessful experiments conducted by this nractitioner.
 Plans Napol4onio.
 An cratic French scrihbler comes out in the Revue Des Deux Mondes with 2 new cchpne to tal.a yyyos+,,f,