ALLEGED NEW REMEDY FOR CONTAGIOUS ABORTION.
Dairymen and cattle-owners everywhere will be greatly interested in the experiments that have been carried on at the Vermont Experiment Station the past year in the use of methylene blue for contagious abortion. So confident are the station authorities concerning this remedy that they have issued a bulletin (No. 174) which gives an account of how 92 cows have been fed with methylene blue. All of these cows aborted, but only one aborted after the administration of this remedy. This agent is said to exert a powerful antiseptic effect on the blood, de-
stroying the abortive germ, and, so far as seen, without injury to the animal. The remedy can be administered cither in the feed or by a capsule. The dose is from a third to a half-ounce, given night and morning early in the ,period of pregnancy for seven clays. . After a lapse of a week the dose is continued for another week. After this the dosing continues for a week in each month until the birth of the calf. The cost is about 70 cents a week per cow. The drug can be had from any of the wholesale druggists at 2.50d0l per lb, but care must be taken to get only the medicinal grades.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 16
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214ALLEGED NEW REMEDY FOR CONTAGIOUS ABORTION. Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 16
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