The veterinarian has a drug problem

Authors: Sommerville GF
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 29, Issue 11, pp 191, Nov 1981
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: General
Subject Terms: Animal remedies/veterinary medicines, Treatment/therapy, Pharmacology, Veterinary profession
Article class: General Article

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Abstract: Veterinary practice today relies heavily on the many sophisticated products of the pharmaceutical industry. A wide generic range of chemicals is produced and their numbers are compounded by a proliferation of brand name products, some with only subtle differences in formulation or therapeutic claims, and often tagged with illusory price advantages over other similar products. How simple it was in the past! In the hazy depths of civilisation`s beginnings early man related cause and effect and developed the faculty of optimism and became convinced that the application of certain substances ameliorated, alleviated or cured some of the disease conditions that had plagued him through the ages…

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