Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-07
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vue hospital in New York The doctor had
the misfortune to get fish bone in its
throat so 1t performed an operation, known
as trachestomy, on its own throat The
only instrument used were the claws given
IT by nature, and the only antseptc was
the frequent lckings with it's own tongue.
/ DR. Ginger has entirely recovered and
stands at the head Of the list OF animals
operating upon themselves,
Preventive medicine is no less science
with the modern veterinarian than curative
medicine, and in the last decade or two
| splendid results have been obtained from
| precautionary measures. BEFORE the pro-
cess OF immunzing northern cattle to the
Texas fever. few thoroughbred cattle were
shipped to the south, because OF the fact
that from 20 to 90 per cent of those shipped
died within a comparatively short time af-
/ ter their arrival the southern farms
| Since the perfection of this immunizing
! process there is no difficulty Of shipping to
southern points, and the cattle and dairy
| industry in the southern states has enjoyed
/ a remarkable development. method OF
/ innoculation of the bile against rinderpest
/ has proved to be highly successful in
! South Africa, and it is believed II will re-
volutionze the cattle business of the dark
! continent. Tho United states Bureau of
Animal Industry has been one of the lead
! ing forces of the world in the investlga-
ton Of animal diseases, and has perfected
vaccines for the majority OF the contag
ious and infectious disease to which animal
life Is subject.
1t is interesting to note that the packing
! house business recognizes more than thirty
animal products which are used as medicine
for human beings. II there were no other
reason for the careful veterinary inspec-
| ton required under the Meat Inspection
| law to insure healthy meat products, the
guaranteeing that these thirty remedies are
pure would be sufficient reason for the
maintenance of this inspection. How much
we are exposed to danger of the communi-
cation of animal diseases to human beings,
through these remedies, is shown by the
case of suprarenalin. 1t requires the sup
rarenal glands of 100000 sheep to make
single pound of suprarenalin. II any one
of these sheep was suffering from a con-
tagious disease it might be spread to
thousands of patients upon which that
pound of suprarenann is used. This prepa-
ration is used in connection with delicate
surgical operations for stopping the flow
of blood and cost more than 5000 a
pound
The veterinarians have no patience with
the wel-meaning people who would put a
stop to vivisection and other forms OF ami
NAL experimentation, They, along with
all other medical men, agree that the
greatest trumphs of medical science have
come about through animal experimental
ton. They tell us that all our knowledge
about the regeneratve growth of tissues,
the union of fractured bones, the activities
and functions of the various organs OF the
body-a thousand things essential to medical
about through eX-
experiments performed on animals. Above
: this it has served more than anything else
to lift the dark cloud that formerly OBJ
scured all matters of infectious disease.
; and has burst the bonds of thralldom in
which the human face has been held by
such diseases.
The agricultural colleges of the country
nearly all have provided courses In the
care of livei stock, in which are taught the
> fundamental principles of veterinary medi-
t cine. The students who take these courses
r are of course not well enough equipped In
veterinary science TO become registered
3 practitioners, but are taught enough to
2 enable them to take all the precautions OF
preventive medicine, and at the same time
{ to treat the thousand and one small all
. ments to which animal life is heir.
4 There was much superstition connected
with live stock diseases in years gone by
Some thought that the poor, rundown con
dition Of certain cattle in the farmyard
was due to hollow horn, and a system OF
a treatment was resorted to- In many cases
l tuberculosis was the real ailment. Hollow
: tail was another disease which the pro
vincial attributed to certain of his cattle
Q The majority OF thin, raw-boned animals
$ are in that condition either from the raw
ages of tuberculosis, or else from the lacl
: of attention. and hollow horn and hollow
tail are now believed to have been little
D more than euphonious excuses for empty
r stomachs or decayed lungs.
By FREDERIC !. HAsKIN.
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