The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-12-15


poured. Previous to the injection the
udder should be thoroughly MIXED
out and washed off with warm water
and soap, followed by 5 per cent So
luton of carbolic acid or creolin. A
clean towel should be placed under
the udder to keep it from coming in
contact with the stable litter or other
filth. Two and one-half drains of
potassium iodide are then added to
one quart of water previously boiled
for fifteen minutes and allowed to cool
to the temperature of the body. The
funnel and tubing should likewise be
disinfected before the injection. The
milking tube is inserted into the four
teats in succession, each quarter OF
the udder, after it has been MIXED out
clean, receiving one-half pint OF the
LIQUID. The udder should then be
thoroughly massaged to make sure
that all the milk canals are penetrated
by the liquid. In case improvement
does not occur the injection may be
repeated once or twice at intervals OF
eight hours, always observing the
same antiseptic precautions, as it is
possible to produce dangerous NAM
mitis (caked bag) and ruin the udder
by careless injections which produce
pathogenic bactreia. This danger,
however, is entirely obviated by the
use of ordinary antiseptic precautions
as described above.
Of all known methods of treating
milk fever, the injection of sterile at
mospheric air into the udder is by far
the most simple and practicable as
we'll as the most efficacious and harm
less one at our dispoasl, and only oc-
casionally requires that medical treat
ment be given
For considerable length of time
the entire value of Schmidt's treat
ment was considered to be the anti
toXine action of potassium 1odlde, and
soon numerous investigators began in
jecting various other antiseptics, such
as carbolic acid, creolin, ETC., with
equally good results. Sterile water
with no increase in the mortality, and
it wa stherefore considered that the
distention of the udder was an impor-
tant factor as the antitoXine action OF
the iodide of potash. Continuing
along these lines Kortman used anti
septic gases (etherized air. with ben
eficial results. Oxygen was then tried
bu Knusel with increasing success and
the deaths among the experimental
cases virtually ceased. The apparat-
us for treating with oxygen and ether
lied air, however, are expensive and
cumbersome, and this greatly limits
their use by the average practitioner
To Anderson, of Skanderborg, be-
longs the credit of first having made
use of plain atmospheric air, although
Schmidt had previously recommended
the admittance of air with the potas-
SUM iodide solution for the purpose
of obtaining greater diffusion of the
liquid Andersen first injected air
along with sterile water and then by
itself The results were astonishing
ly successful. Thus Schmidt reports
that out of GA cases treated in Den
mark, 884, or 967 per cent, were re-
stored to health. The record of 140
of these animals shows that recovery
occurred in the average time of 62s
hours. Of this number rs cases re-
quired a second injection, while in 3
of the latter number it was necessary
to give third treatment before they
were able to get upon their feet. The
treatment is also practically harm
less, as the statistics of the above
mentioned GA patients show only 1
COW was affected with a severe attack
of caked bag after this treatment,
while in 4 other COWS a milder inf1a-
8 h.