PENICILLIN FOR STOCK

Grey River Argus, 12 September 1944, Page 2

PENICILLIN FOR STOCK

The possibilities of pencillin being used for certain livestock ailments are indicated by a writer in the “Veterinary Record.” .After summarising medical opinion on penicillin for human beings, the writerstates:—“Two things stand out clearly to the veterinary reader from the .above summary: firstly, it is unlikely that penicillin will become available for some time yet in quantities sufficient for more than strictly limited trial in veterinary practice; secondly, pending the availability of plentiful supplies, much is to be learned from the recorded work in the medical field upon the uses and . limitations of penicillin treatment. “That penicillin itself, or some variant, of it, will become available some day for use in animal practice seems almost assured. That, conditions are plentiful in Which it can be properly tried with high promise of success is undeniable. We have for our guidance the recent experience of the mutual advantage oi animal experiment and well-con-ducted trials on human patients in the case of the sulphonamide group of drugs. It is evident that the field of chemotherapeutic research is one in which great energy is now being displayed, and no veterinarian can afford to ignore the real progress that is being made within it. _