MILK FEVER CURE.

Shannon News, 24 September 1929, Page 3

MILK FEVER CURE.

What is the cause »of milk fever? This question has remained unanswered for generations, but. now some light, is available on tho subject. Dr. B. SjolleSna, Holland, has shown that milk "fever may be caused by an.insufficient quantity of calcium in the blood. He found that the slow injection of 300 to 450 cubic centimetres of a ten pe- cent., solution of calcium chloride, jplus 20" grains of glucose, cured every case of milk fever on which it was used aud prevented milk fever in cows which had previously been subject to it. Two other seien t'ists in Sweden and one in France, have discovered that an insufficiency of sugar in the blood was responsible and they corrected, these conditions by an injection of a ten arid twenty per cent. glucose solution. Where plenty of calcium and sugar, arc in the blood there were no harmful effects from milking the cow dry following parturition. The practical application of these fluids would seem to be the feeding of molasses liberally to dry and fresh cows. The veterinarians may now have a different method of treatiug -milk fever than pumping air into the udder, good as that treatment has been.