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Show NEW TREATMENT OF SCOURS Mysterious Disease Among Calvei Successfully Treated by Prof. WIJ son of Canadian College. A somewhat Important step In vet erlnnry medicine has bom mado by Profctaor WlUon of the HarperAd ants Agricultural college, Bays th Canadian Farm. Some farmers hi Salop Imd suffered heavy loss by a mysterious disease among their calves which was so deadly that not one ek caped. They showed signs of Ulnes at about two days old and sot worst until they died about a week later. The farmer who appealed to the college for assistance had never been able to reat a single calf of his own breeding Those bought at a fortnight old did quite well. Professor Wilson aftei poBt-mortem examinations diagnosed It os a form of septicaemia or blood poisoning, and after in Ineffectual attempt to shut out the malignant norms by ligation and disinfection o the naval cords, hit upon the Idea 01 giving luetic acid bacilli In skimmed milk during the first day and gradually gradual-ly Introducing the dam's milk but still continuing the lactic acid bacilli until the ninth day, when ordinary rations were reached. This treatment, hus been singularly successful and not a single calf lias been lost since What Is of more general Impor ance howter, Is that this treatment lc proving effective In the much morn prevalent disease, white scours In cfilvts, end the principle may not stop heie. Setting bacilli to kill bacilli mny yet prove a fundamental principle in m.li Kil medicine ond it Is possible that Mint developments mny arise out of Iiivi -Btigullons along thfse lines |