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IN GRATITUDE

The editors and staff of The Speculum dedicate this issue of The

Speculum to retiring Dean Walter R Krill Through his continuous

support and faith The Speculum has flourished and remained the outshy

let for the college to its alumni Without his confidence in the students

and their ability the prosperity of The Speculum would not be what

it is today Speaking for all the past editors and staffs of The Speculum

we would like to wish Dean Krill continuous success in all his future

endeavors and a long and happy life to come

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The Ohio State University mdash College of Veterinary Medicine

The SPECULUM VOLUME XX SPRING 1967 NUMBER 3

Editors Thomas J Scheifer Vet Med IllVictoria L Voith Vet Med Ill

StaffShirley Clevenson Sallie Ginaven Kathy Herald Joan Hurley Dorothea Lowry Frank Pipers

Members

Don Sanders Sharon Schuman George Sikora Nancy Smatt Joseph Wagner Mike Wansky

Contributors Ronald H Bockbrader Phillip A Linerode Jay Forsyth Judy Sauerbrei Tom Hickey Richard Whipps Dean Walter R Krill Dan Wolf John C Leite Dave Zimmerman

Advertising Tom Scheifer

Circulation Don Sanders Photography

Mike Wansky

Faculty Advising Board

Dr Roger A YearymdashChairmanDr R W Redding Dr M W Scothorn

THE SPECULUM is a quarterly publication of TheOhio State University College of Veterinary Medishycine It is published by the students for the disshysemination of news to the alumni faculty studentsand other interested persons Contributions arewelcomed but we reserve the right to edit the material

INTHISISSUE

FEATURES

People in the College 16 Canine Research Projects 30 Youre the Doctor 38

COLLEGE NEWS

Across the Deans Desk 3 Alumni News 9 Faculty News 10 College Acquires Business Office 15 AVMA News 28 Speakers Bureau 29 Ohio State Fair Exhibit 29 Omega Tau Sigma 35 The Chiron 35 Alpha Psi 36 AVMA Research Scholarship 37

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Across the

DEANS DESK

Many things have happened since writing my contribution to the winter issue of the Speculum Most importantof course was the appointment of Dr Clarence Cole as my successor the comshyplete story of which was included in the winter issue of The Speculum I can assure you that Dr Cole has all the qualifications to furnish the leadershipwhich our college needs in the years ahead and based on his professional record of accomplishment to date I have full confidence that the future of the college is in good hands If Dr Coleis to make his greatest contribution hemust have the wholehearted support ofthe faculty and alumni and I sincerelyask that you give him the same measureof support given to me over the past twenty-one years

Dr Coles appointment coming as itdid just before Mrs Krill and I left onour trip to India where I spent four weeks reviewing the Veterinary Colshyleges connected with the AID Programunder the University Contract made our trip so much more enjoyable knowshying that the projected six year programrequested from the college along withnext years budget would be developedby the one responsible for its adminisshytration As in all previous cases when I have visited foreign countries I feel that I received far more than I gave Traveling in foreign lands a term which is really no longer appropriatebecause of our speed of travel communshyication and vast amount of information available about all areas of the unishyverse is a challenging educational ex-

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perience if one maintains an unbiased point of view and does not judge everyshything according to our countrys standshyards In every country which I have evshyer visited there are always things I havewished to bring back and inculcate in our American way of life And of courseMrs Krill like all normal women saw some of the most beautiful items of native handicraft which she also felt compelled to bring back Naturally one sees some things which are somewhat startling at first especially in the areaof living standards Many of the thingswhich have become a necessity to our way of life are not available to the masses while those in the higher strataof society have them in a limited moreprimitive fashion

Does this mean that there is less hapshypiness among the people in these less developed countries where our modernconveniences are not available In all honesty I would have to say no I haveseen the same genuine smile of satisfacshytion pride of accomplishment and far closer family ties in the less opulentcountries than I see in our own countrywhere so much emphasis is placed on material things and keeping up with the neighbors As a result I often ask myself What is happiness and what is the essential ingredient necessary to make people happy S o m e w h e r e among my accumulation of proverbsand quotations which was started earshyly in my high school days I found thefollowing which comes nearest to anshyswering the question

Happiness in life comes from within not from without

This must be the answer because in the absence of material things upon which we place such great emphasis for our happiness these people seem to have learned that satisfaction comes from doing things with their hands personalpride family loyalty things which canshynot be bought We marvel at the art and craftsmanship these people possess for which they receive very little pay and we Americans acquire the beautiful things they make and regard them as prized possessions There is a certain inner-satisfaction as well as relaxation which comes from creating and doing things with ones hands which money cannot buy All you need to do is look among your friends and neighbors and I feel sure you will find the greatest genuine happiness among those who have pride in their home have learned the pleasure of creating something in which they have invested part of themshyselves and are always ready to serve their fellow man when needed Of one thing I am certain and that is - Money and material things in themselves do not bring happiness In fact the least happy persons I have known are those who placed a dollar sign on everything they did and never experienced the genuine happiness which comes from doing something out of the goodness of their heart While we in this country can be most proud of the material things made available for our pleasure and enjoyment through modern techshynology the big challenge of the future is to use these products in their true perspective and not allow this environshyment of opulence to destroy our initiashy

tive our sense of values and our motishyvation to develop our inherent talents to their fullest potential

Since this will be my last Across the Deans Desk contribution to the Specshyulum may I say that I haye really enshyjoyed the opportunity to share with you information about the college and on occasion my p e r s o n a l views and thoughts No Dean has ever had more loyal support from the alumni than I have had and this has been a real inshyspiration and stimulus to me I am sorshyry that all our building hopes have not been realized during my term as Dean but at least the ground work has been laid and building of the Veterinary Hosshypital should get underway in the not too distant future Having spent all but twoof my adult years since entering college in 1919 here at the Ohio State Univershysity I have a deep sense of gratitude for the opportunity it has afforded me and I sincerely hope that I have been worthy and lived up to the responsibilishyties entrusted in me I can only say that I have tried to fulfill my obligation with honesty and dignity in the best intershyests of the college and the profession

The most prized possession Mrs Krilland I will always cherish is a storeshyhouse of pleasant memories accumushylated over the years and in which all of you have been a part For this we exshytend to you and all our university asshysociates our sincerest thanks Once we become footloose and free dont be surshyprised if the telephone rings and someshyone says this is your Old Dean just passing through

SincerelyWalter R Krill Dean

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AVMA Awards Banquet By TOM HICKEY Vet Med Ill

The Ohio State Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation held its annual Awards Banquet at the Nationwide Inn on May 19 1967 Approximately 200 students faculty members and guests were present The banquet service was excellent this yearand this helped make the evening even more enjoyable After a welcoming adshydress by president Mike Youshak the Master of Ceremonies was introduced Frank Pipers did a magnificent job of joke-telling introducing and stalling for time until the band arrived (were there really that many people killed in the Civil War) After the banquet and presentation of awards the tables were pulled back and everyone had a fine time dancing to the music of The Inshysiders courtesy of the W A Butler Company The awards presented duringthe banquet were as follows

A V M A AWARDS President-elect Tom Hickey presented

the junior keys and senior certificates to those students who qualified The reshyquirement for the award is that the junshyiors must have attended at least half of the meetings for each of the three years they have been in school and the seniors must have attended at least half of the meetings for each of their four years

The junior keys were presented to Fred Adams Ron Banning Al Bryant Tom Burke Larry Dickey Tom Hickey Joan Hurley Dick Knight George Nyshyland Jim Popp Don Sanders Judy Sauerbrei Larry Sautter W a r r e n Snead Joe Starcher Walt Threlfall Mike Wansky and Dan Wolf

The senior certificates were presented to Mike Andrews John Bishop Richshyard Dailey Dale Duerr Dottie Lowry Dick Gurevitz Bob Henry Dean Kraus James Lonz Bruce Marhefka Dan Paulo Bill Reynolds Bill Sayle Dick Whipps Bill Yakley and Mike Youshak

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BORDEN AWARD The Borden Award consists of a $300

check a certificate and a plaque This award goes to the member of the senior class who attained the highest scholasshytic record in all veterinary studies prior to the fourth year Mr J Hoffshyman Erb vice-president in charge of production for the Borden Company presented the award to Flo Rutledge This is the first time that the award has been given to a member of the fairshyer sex Flo is a member of AVMA and Phi Zeta She was also editor of the Chiron this year

SPECULUM AWARDS Dr Yeary presented certificates to

the following staff members of The Speculum for their fine efforts ShirleyClevenson Joan Hurley Frank PipersDon Sanders Bill Sayle Tom Schiefer Dick Segall George Sikora Victoria Voith Mike Wansky Mike Youshak Victoria Voith and Tom Schiefer were named next years co-editors

OMEGA TAU SIGMA AWARD The Omega Tau Sigma Award is preshy

sented to the senior student showingthe most promise as a clinician and outshystanding practitioner A committee of the clinical staff chooses the recipient ofthis award based on character scholarshyship leadership and adeptness and inshyterest in performing his clinical dutiesDon Heagren presented this yearsaward to John Mehling John is a memshyber of the AVMA and will be assigned to the ambulatory section at Cornell University John is married and his wife who is also a veterinarian will accompany him to Cornell

NATIONAL WOMENS AUXILIARY AWARD

The National Womens Auxiliary Award was presented by Mrs Keith Wearly to the senior who has contribshyuted most to advance the prestige of veterinary medicine both here at the University and to the general publicThis year the $75 award was presentedto Bill Yakley Bill is a member of OTSand has been very active in the AVMAHe is currently vice-president and served last year as chairman of the live-surgery exhibit committee Bill is marshyried and will be going to Washington

State University where he will be an instructor in the Dept of Small AnimalMedicine and Surgery

DEANS AWARD Dr Roger Yeary presented this years

Deans Award to Dotty Lowry and JoeWagner This award is presented for outstanding service to The Speculum Joe and Dotty are currently co-editorsof this publication

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ALPHA PSI ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP The Alpha Psi Alumni Scholarship is

awarded to a junior student who exhibshyits a promising potential and who has proven his scholastic ability Dr Mc-Kissick presented the $100 award to George Nyland George is married anda member of Alpha Psi fraternity

PHI ZETA AWARDS Memberships in the Delta Chapter of

Phi Zeta the veterinary medical honorsociety were extended to those personsin the upper ten percent of the juniorclass and those in the upper twenty-fivepercent of the senior class who had notpreviously been extended the honor FloRutledge announced the following recipshyients

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1968 James A PoppLarry E DickeyMichael Wolland Douglas CoatneyWilliam Sternecker Thomas J Burke Carl Alden

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1967 E Clinton LowryDorothea Freitas LowryEugene BreznockRichard DaileyH Rodney FergusonLance 0 Lollini James Lonz Bill B ReynoldsRichard Soldner

CHIRON AWARDS

The Chiron is the official yearbook ofthe College of Veterinary Medicine andthe chiron awards are presented to those people who have given of their time and service so that the yearbookmay be published This is the first yearfor the Chiron and thus the first yearfor this award Editor Flo Rutledge preshysented the following people with certifishycates Pete Cyrog Stan EichelbergerBob Fritz Sally Ginaven Tom HickeyRon Jennings Larry Miley Marty Putshykonen Bill Reynolds Don Sanders JudySauerbrei Bill Sayle George Sikora Joe Starcher Bob Temple Victoria L Voith Mike Wansky Dick WhippsMike Youshak Dr Loeb Advisor Don Sanders was named next years editor

STUDENT AUXILIARY AWARD

Mrs Carole Kraus presented the Stushydent Auxiliary Award of $50 to Tom Hickey This award is given to a juniorwho in order to be eligible must be married must be a voting member of the Student AVMA his wife must be a voting member of the Auxiliary andhe must have at least a 25 accum through winter quarter of the junioryear The winners name is drawn fromthose who are eligible Tom is a memshyber of Alpha Psi and will be presidentof the AVMA next year

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ALPHA PSI JUNIOR AWARD The recipient of the Alpha Psi Junior

award is chosen by the faculty on the basis of scholarship interest personalshyity and character Alpha Psi presidentJim Syler presented the plaque to a deshyserving but much surprised Tom BurkeTom is a member of AVMA and is vice-president of Alpha Psi

PFIZER AWARD The Pfizer award is a check for $400

and is given to a junior student who shows outstanding scholarship and leadshyership A representative of the Pfizer Company presented Doug Coatney withthis award Doug is a member of AVMA and OTS he is also in Phi Zeta

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MERCK AWARDS A SPECIAL TRIBUTEEngraved Merck Manuals are given to

two senior students selected by the facshyulty who have shown a fine personalshyity scholarship and leadership Dean Krill announced that this years award winners are Bill Sayle and John Mehshyling Both Bill and John are members of AVMA and OTS Bill will enter small animal practice in Amherst Ohio and John will be going to Cornell

TO DEAN KRILL In recognition for his many years of

devotion to the students of the Collegeof Veterinary Medicine Dean Krill waspresented a plaque from the Student Chapter of the AVMA Dick Whipps presented the plaque and Dean Krill then gave a stirring speech This was his last Awards Banquet as dean of ourcollege and we all shall miss him

ALUMNI NEWS1934

bullDR B E KNISELY was promoted inFebruary to Assistant Veterinarian in Charge of the Animal Health DivisionARS Puerto Rico Before going to Puerto Rico he served as a field vetshyerinarian in Ohio working on tubercushylosis brucellosis scabies scrapie vesishycular exanthema hog cholera and anshythrax outbreaks He became leader of the tuberculosis project for the state in1960 and he entered the Twelfth Vetshyerinary Administrator Development Program in 1965

1942 DR V GLENN CRAGO was elected

a regional director of the American Hospital Association in March with the

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responsibility of representing the 1500members in the Midwestern states Afshyter graduating Dr Crago was a large animal practitioner in Kinsman Ohio He entered a small animal practice withhis brother Dr Charles Crago of YoungSitown in 1946 Presently he opshyerates the Crago Veterinary Clinic withanother brother Dr W H Crago in Youngstown Ohio

1964 DR WILLIAM HUNTER will receive

his Master of Science degree this Juneand is teaching nuclear medicine in theCollege of Medicine at the Ohio State University His thesis research involvesusing radio isotopes to study bone saltmetabolism

FACULTY NEWSBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

Anatomy

Doctor Walter G Venzke met with the members of the American Commitshytee on Veterinary Anatomical Nomenshyclature at Columbia Missouri on April3 and 4 He also attended the Annual American Association of Anatomists Meeting in Kansas City Missouri on April 5 and 6

Doctor Venzke has recently been apshypointed a member of a committee on Veterinary embryological nomenclaturethat will collaborate with a similar group working in human anatomy

Surgery

Doctor Richard L Rudy attended anOrthopedic Seminar given by the Greatshyer St Louis Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation in April 1967 He also attendeda conference on Surgical Treatment ofPatent Ductus Arteriosus given by theAAHA in New York during March

Doctor Rudy reports a full house at the Orthopedic Workshop held March 17 and 18

Doctor Rudy will be present at the meeting of the Board of Regents of theAmerican College of Veterinary Surshygeons in Boston on June 5

Doctor Leroy E Johnson presented a program on Unsouncfraess in the Horse to the Groveport Ohio 4-H Club He alshyso spoke to the Cleveland Hunt Club concerning Lameness in the Hunter The Riyerridge Riding Club of Columshybus Ohio heard Doctor Johnson speak about The Horse and Destiny

Doctor Bruce Heath received a Masshyters Degree in Veterinary Surgery atSpring Commencement June 13 at TheOhio State University The title of thethesis is Physiologic Effects and Safeshyty of Preanesthetics Halothane andMethoxyflurane in Horses

bull Physiology AndPharmacology

Dr Charles R Smith conducted a seminar on Veterinary Education andResearch at Purdue University on Apshyril 6 and 7 While he was at Purdue Dr Smith visited the faculty and facilitiesAt the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri on May22 and 23 he visited faculty and facilishyties in the Departments of PhysiologyPharmacology Biochemistry and Radshyiobiology Dr Smith conducted a semshyinar Ascites in the Dog at the annualmeeting of the American Animal Hosshypital Association in New York on March16 and 17 He also attended the Springmeeting of the Council on Research AVMA in Chicago on March 13 and 14

Dr Caroline Gall will receive her MSc degree in June in Veterinary Physiology The title of her thesis is Systemic Arterial Right Ventricular and Pulmonary Artery Pressures in the Horse

Dr James N Ross will receive his MSc degree in June His thesis title is Patent Ductus Arteriosus in the Dog Clinical and Physiologic Feashytures Dr Ross will join the faculty ofthe College of Medicine at Baylor Unishyversity July 1 1967

Dr Balbir Singh Paul will receive his PhD degree in June The title of his dissertation is A Study of the Pharmacodynamics of Dihydroquinishydine in the Canine Dr Paul will reshyturn to India as Professor of Pharmashycology Hissar India

Dr Roger Yeary joined the departshymental faculty April 1 1967 as an Asshysociate Professor He will head a new program in Veterinary Toxicology andparticipate in the departmental proshygrams in Pharmacology

On February 16 1967 Dr Yeary disshycussed the subject of Pharmacologic

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Principles for Therapy of Acute Poisshyoning before the Columbus Academyof Veterinary Medicine He representedthe Ohio Veterinary Medical Associashytion at the Ohio Rural Health Council on April 5 1967 and reviewed the curshyrent status of epizootic diseases for that group At the Ohio Valley Sectionof the Institute of Food Technologistsmeeting in Columbus April 7 1967 DrYeary discussed Consumer Food Proshytection Dr Yeary was invited to preshysent a paper on Evaluation of Acute and Subacute Toxicity Studies in Newshyborn Animals at the Symposium on Perinatal Pharmacology and Toxicologyin Montreal Canada April 13 1967

A recent publication by Doctor Yearyis Cooperative Extension Service Bulshyletin 474 Medicated Feed Additives shyA Handbook on the Safe Use of Feed Additives and Drugs for Livestock andPoultry 1st Revision March 1967

Dr David Knight of the University of Pennsylvania visited with members of the faculty in April He presented two seminars on his research in heart worm disease in dogs

Dr Barry Prynn spoke in Ashland Ohio to the North Central VMA about small animal anesthesia

Dr Robert Hamlin has had a full schedule of lectures They have inshycluded Clinical Cardiology to the New Jersey VMA Sinus Arrhythmia in the Dog at the University of Califorshynia (Davis) Computer Analysis of the ECG at the Schering Corporation in New Jersey Clinical Cardiology to the Chicago VMA to the Arizona State VMA and to the Colorado State VMA Radiographic Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the American Animal Hospital Association in New York andPhysiological Basis for Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the Kansas State Unishyversity

The department has had some disshytinguished visitors and lecturers recentshyly They have included Dr David Donshyald of the Mayo Clinic Dr StanleyHarris of Kansas State University andDr David Jenson of the Scripps Instishytution of Oceanography at LaJolla Calshyifornia

Dr Hamlin reports that the laborashytories of the Program Project Biology

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of the Heart opened in the basementof Sisson Hall in April The project isgoing full blast Publications

Characteristics of Respiration in Healthy Dogs Anesthetized with Sodshyium Pentobarbital Am J Vet Res Hamlin R L and Smith C R

Detection and Quantitation of Subshyclinical Congestive Heart Failure in Dogs Hamlin R L Smith C R and Ross J N The Physiologist Vol 9 No 3 August 1966 Page 197

Contractility of the Normal Canine Ventricle Hamlin R L Smith C R

Clinical Relevancy of Heart Rate of the Dog Hamlin R L Olsen Inger Smith C R Boggs Steve

Pathology

Dr Richard A Griesemer spoke onthe Problems of Animal Bites as partof the postgraduate course for physishycians on Practical Management of Inshyfectious Disease on March 29 in the College of Medicine

Dr Griesemer presented a talk on Germfree Animals on March 28 at the meeting of the Franklin County Medical Technologists Association

On April 3 Dr Griesemer consulted with officials of the State Diagnostic Laboratory Dept of Agriculture Hashywaii on infectious disease problems in animals

In April Dr Richard A Griesemer participated in the 57th Annual Meetshying Japan Pathology Society in Nagoshyya Japan At Inuama Japan he preshysented a talk on Virus Disease Reshysearch Utilizing Germfree Animals InTokyo Dr Griesemer participated in the Panel on Germfree Life Research and also participated in the US-JapanCooperative Science Program Seminar on Gnotobiotic Technology at whichtime he spoke on Large Germfree Anishymal Methods While in Japan Dr Griesemer visited the following scienshytific institutions as consultant in germshyfree technology The National Instituteof Primatology Keio University Collegeof Medicine National Institute of Anishymal Health National Institute of Inshyfectious Diseases National Institute of

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Public Health National Institute of fectious Enteritis in the Germfree Cat Health the University of Nagoya Col- On April 1 Dr Rohovsky was apshylege of Medicine Aichi Cancer Center pointed Assistant Professor in the De-Institute of Physical and Chemical Re- partment of Veterinary Pathology search and the University of Tokyo Dr John Long presented a paper at

Dr Clarence R Cole represented the the Annual Meeting of the Internation-College of Veterinary Medicine at the al Academy of Pathology in Washing-special meeting of the American Asso- ton DC entitled Neuronal Degenershyciation of Veterinary Medical Colleges ation and Glial Response in Experishyheld in Washington DC The deans of mental Polioencephalomyelitis Dr the nations veterinary colleges were John Shadduck presented a paper on given detailed information concerning Pathogenic Properties of a Porcine the Veterinary Medical Education Act Adenovirus of 1966 and plans for organizing and Swine Polioencephalitis Virus in expediting the program designed to Germfree Pigs Viral Isolation Immunshyprovide federal funds to match state oreaction and Serum Electrophoresis appropriations by L Kasza J Holman and A Koest-

Dr Michael W Rohovsky presented ner appeared in Am J Vet Res two lectures to the Department of Vet- March 1967 erinary Pathology at Texas AampM Uni- Dr Charles C Capen presented aversity on March 10 He spoke on The paper entitled The Influence of Vita-Germfree Animal as a Research Tool min D on Calcium Metabolism and the and Feline Infectious Enteritis in the Parathyroid Glands of Cattle at aGermfree Cat symposium on The Nutritional and

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IN GRATITUDE

The editors and staff of The Speculum dedicate this issue of The

Speculum to retiring Dean Walter R Krill Through his continuous

support and faith The Speculum has flourished and remained the outshy

let for the college to its alumni Without his confidence in the students

and their ability the prosperity of The Speculum would not be what

it is today Speaking for all the past editors and staffs of The Speculum

we would like to wish Dean Krill continuous success in all his future

endeavors and a long and happy life to come

SPRING 1967 i

The Ohio State University mdash College of Veterinary Medicine

The SPECULUM VOLUME XX SPRING 1967 NUMBER 3

Editors Thomas J Scheifer Vet Med IllVictoria L Voith Vet Med Ill

StaffShirley Clevenson Sallie Ginaven Kathy Herald Joan Hurley Dorothea Lowry Frank Pipers

Members

Don Sanders Sharon Schuman George Sikora Nancy Smatt Joseph Wagner Mike Wansky

Contributors Ronald H Bockbrader Phillip A Linerode Jay Forsyth Judy Sauerbrei Tom Hickey Richard Whipps Dean Walter R Krill Dan Wolf John C Leite Dave Zimmerman

Advertising Tom Scheifer

Circulation Don Sanders Photography

Mike Wansky

Faculty Advising Board

Dr Roger A YearymdashChairmanDr R W Redding Dr M W Scothorn

THE SPECULUM is a quarterly publication of TheOhio State University College of Veterinary Medishycine It is published by the students for the disshysemination of news to the alumni faculty studentsand other interested persons Contributions arewelcomed but we reserve the right to edit the material

INTHISISSUE

FEATURES

People in the College 16 Canine Research Projects 30 Youre the Doctor 38

COLLEGE NEWS

Across the Deans Desk 3 Alumni News 9 Faculty News 10 College Acquires Business Office 15 AVMA News 28 Speakers Bureau 29 Ohio State Fair Exhibit 29 Omega Tau Sigma 35 The Chiron 35 Alpha Psi 36 AVMA Research Scholarship 37

ADVERTISING INDEX

AMCO 12 Butler IFC Columbus Serum OBC Continental Insurance Co 15 Eaton 40 Fort Dodge 32 Hill Packing 37 Massengill 8 Norden 34 Ohio Stater 29 Orthopedic Supply Co 4 Pitman-Moore 26 Vitamineral IampC West-Camp Press Inc 31

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Across the

DEANS DESK

Many things have happened since writing my contribution to the winter issue of the Speculum Most importantof course was the appointment of Dr Clarence Cole as my successor the comshyplete story of which was included in the winter issue of The Speculum I can assure you that Dr Cole has all the qualifications to furnish the leadershipwhich our college needs in the years ahead and based on his professional record of accomplishment to date I have full confidence that the future of the college is in good hands If Dr Coleis to make his greatest contribution hemust have the wholehearted support ofthe faculty and alumni and I sincerelyask that you give him the same measureof support given to me over the past twenty-one years

Dr Coles appointment coming as itdid just before Mrs Krill and I left onour trip to India where I spent four weeks reviewing the Veterinary Colshyleges connected with the AID Programunder the University Contract made our trip so much more enjoyable knowshying that the projected six year programrequested from the college along withnext years budget would be developedby the one responsible for its adminisshytration As in all previous cases when I have visited foreign countries I feel that I received far more than I gave Traveling in foreign lands a term which is really no longer appropriatebecause of our speed of travel communshyication and vast amount of information available about all areas of the unishyverse is a challenging educational ex-

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perience if one maintains an unbiased point of view and does not judge everyshything according to our countrys standshyards In every country which I have evshyer visited there are always things I havewished to bring back and inculcate in our American way of life And of courseMrs Krill like all normal women saw some of the most beautiful items of native handicraft which she also felt compelled to bring back Naturally one sees some things which are somewhat startling at first especially in the areaof living standards Many of the thingswhich have become a necessity to our way of life are not available to the masses while those in the higher strataof society have them in a limited moreprimitive fashion

Does this mean that there is less hapshypiness among the people in these less developed countries where our modernconveniences are not available In all honesty I would have to say no I haveseen the same genuine smile of satisfacshytion pride of accomplishment and far closer family ties in the less opulentcountries than I see in our own countrywhere so much emphasis is placed on material things and keeping up with the neighbors As a result I often ask myself What is happiness and what is the essential ingredient necessary to make people happy S o m e w h e r e among my accumulation of proverbsand quotations which was started earshyly in my high school days I found thefollowing which comes nearest to anshyswering the question

Happiness in life comes from within not from without

This must be the answer because in the absence of material things upon which we place such great emphasis for our happiness these people seem to have learned that satisfaction comes from doing things with their hands personalpride family loyalty things which canshynot be bought We marvel at the art and craftsmanship these people possess for which they receive very little pay and we Americans acquire the beautiful things they make and regard them as prized possessions There is a certain inner-satisfaction as well as relaxation which comes from creating and doing things with ones hands which money cannot buy All you need to do is look among your friends and neighbors and I feel sure you will find the greatest genuine happiness among those who have pride in their home have learned the pleasure of creating something in which they have invested part of themshyselves and are always ready to serve their fellow man when needed Of one thing I am certain and that is - Money and material things in themselves do not bring happiness In fact the least happy persons I have known are those who placed a dollar sign on everything they did and never experienced the genuine happiness which comes from doing something out of the goodness of their heart While we in this country can be most proud of the material things made available for our pleasure and enjoyment through modern techshynology the big challenge of the future is to use these products in their true perspective and not allow this environshyment of opulence to destroy our initiashy

tive our sense of values and our motishyvation to develop our inherent talents to their fullest potential

Since this will be my last Across the Deans Desk contribution to the Specshyulum may I say that I haye really enshyjoyed the opportunity to share with you information about the college and on occasion my p e r s o n a l views and thoughts No Dean has ever had more loyal support from the alumni than I have had and this has been a real inshyspiration and stimulus to me I am sorshyry that all our building hopes have not been realized during my term as Dean but at least the ground work has been laid and building of the Veterinary Hosshypital should get underway in the not too distant future Having spent all but twoof my adult years since entering college in 1919 here at the Ohio State Univershysity I have a deep sense of gratitude for the opportunity it has afforded me and I sincerely hope that I have been worthy and lived up to the responsibilishyties entrusted in me I can only say that I have tried to fulfill my obligation with honesty and dignity in the best intershyests of the college and the profession

The most prized possession Mrs Krilland I will always cherish is a storeshyhouse of pleasant memories accumushylated over the years and in which all of you have been a part For this we exshytend to you and all our university asshysociates our sincerest thanks Once we become footloose and free dont be surshyprised if the telephone rings and someshyone says this is your Old Dean just passing through

SincerelyWalter R Krill Dean

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AVMA Awards Banquet By TOM HICKEY Vet Med Ill

The Ohio State Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation held its annual Awards Banquet at the Nationwide Inn on May 19 1967 Approximately 200 students faculty members and guests were present The banquet service was excellent this yearand this helped make the evening even more enjoyable After a welcoming adshydress by president Mike Youshak the Master of Ceremonies was introduced Frank Pipers did a magnificent job of joke-telling introducing and stalling for time until the band arrived (were there really that many people killed in the Civil War) After the banquet and presentation of awards the tables were pulled back and everyone had a fine time dancing to the music of The Inshysiders courtesy of the W A Butler Company The awards presented duringthe banquet were as follows

A V M A AWARDS President-elect Tom Hickey presented

the junior keys and senior certificates to those students who qualified The reshyquirement for the award is that the junshyiors must have attended at least half of the meetings for each of the three years they have been in school and the seniors must have attended at least half of the meetings for each of their four years

The junior keys were presented to Fred Adams Ron Banning Al Bryant Tom Burke Larry Dickey Tom Hickey Joan Hurley Dick Knight George Nyshyland Jim Popp Don Sanders Judy Sauerbrei Larry Sautter W a r r e n Snead Joe Starcher Walt Threlfall Mike Wansky and Dan Wolf

The senior certificates were presented to Mike Andrews John Bishop Richshyard Dailey Dale Duerr Dottie Lowry Dick Gurevitz Bob Henry Dean Kraus James Lonz Bruce Marhefka Dan Paulo Bill Reynolds Bill Sayle Dick Whipps Bill Yakley and Mike Youshak

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BORDEN AWARD The Borden Award consists of a $300

check a certificate and a plaque This award goes to the member of the senior class who attained the highest scholasshytic record in all veterinary studies prior to the fourth year Mr J Hoffshyman Erb vice-president in charge of production for the Borden Company presented the award to Flo Rutledge This is the first time that the award has been given to a member of the fairshyer sex Flo is a member of AVMA and Phi Zeta She was also editor of the Chiron this year

SPECULUM AWARDS Dr Yeary presented certificates to

the following staff members of The Speculum for their fine efforts ShirleyClevenson Joan Hurley Frank PipersDon Sanders Bill Sayle Tom Schiefer Dick Segall George Sikora Victoria Voith Mike Wansky Mike Youshak Victoria Voith and Tom Schiefer were named next years co-editors

OMEGA TAU SIGMA AWARD The Omega Tau Sigma Award is preshy

sented to the senior student showingthe most promise as a clinician and outshystanding practitioner A committee of the clinical staff chooses the recipient ofthis award based on character scholarshyship leadership and adeptness and inshyterest in performing his clinical dutiesDon Heagren presented this yearsaward to John Mehling John is a memshyber of the AVMA and will be assigned to the ambulatory section at Cornell University John is married and his wife who is also a veterinarian will accompany him to Cornell

NATIONAL WOMENS AUXILIARY AWARD

The National Womens Auxiliary Award was presented by Mrs Keith Wearly to the senior who has contribshyuted most to advance the prestige of veterinary medicine both here at the University and to the general publicThis year the $75 award was presentedto Bill Yakley Bill is a member of OTSand has been very active in the AVMAHe is currently vice-president and served last year as chairman of the live-surgery exhibit committee Bill is marshyried and will be going to Washington

State University where he will be an instructor in the Dept of Small AnimalMedicine and Surgery

DEANS AWARD Dr Roger Yeary presented this years

Deans Award to Dotty Lowry and JoeWagner This award is presented for outstanding service to The Speculum Joe and Dotty are currently co-editorsof this publication

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ALPHA PSI ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP The Alpha Psi Alumni Scholarship is

awarded to a junior student who exhibshyits a promising potential and who has proven his scholastic ability Dr Mc-Kissick presented the $100 award to George Nyland George is married anda member of Alpha Psi fraternity

PHI ZETA AWARDS Memberships in the Delta Chapter of

Phi Zeta the veterinary medical honorsociety were extended to those personsin the upper ten percent of the juniorclass and those in the upper twenty-fivepercent of the senior class who had notpreviously been extended the honor FloRutledge announced the following recipshyients

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1968 James A PoppLarry E DickeyMichael Wolland Douglas CoatneyWilliam Sternecker Thomas J Burke Carl Alden

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1967 E Clinton LowryDorothea Freitas LowryEugene BreznockRichard DaileyH Rodney FergusonLance 0 Lollini James Lonz Bill B ReynoldsRichard Soldner

CHIRON AWARDS

The Chiron is the official yearbook ofthe College of Veterinary Medicine andthe chiron awards are presented to those people who have given of their time and service so that the yearbookmay be published This is the first yearfor the Chiron and thus the first yearfor this award Editor Flo Rutledge preshysented the following people with certifishycates Pete Cyrog Stan EichelbergerBob Fritz Sally Ginaven Tom HickeyRon Jennings Larry Miley Marty Putshykonen Bill Reynolds Don Sanders JudySauerbrei Bill Sayle George Sikora Joe Starcher Bob Temple Victoria L Voith Mike Wansky Dick WhippsMike Youshak Dr Loeb Advisor Don Sanders was named next years editor

STUDENT AUXILIARY AWARD

Mrs Carole Kraus presented the Stushydent Auxiliary Award of $50 to Tom Hickey This award is given to a juniorwho in order to be eligible must be married must be a voting member of the Student AVMA his wife must be a voting member of the Auxiliary andhe must have at least a 25 accum through winter quarter of the junioryear The winners name is drawn fromthose who are eligible Tom is a memshyber of Alpha Psi and will be presidentof the AVMA next year

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ALPHA PSI JUNIOR AWARD The recipient of the Alpha Psi Junior

award is chosen by the faculty on the basis of scholarship interest personalshyity and character Alpha Psi presidentJim Syler presented the plaque to a deshyserving but much surprised Tom BurkeTom is a member of AVMA and is vice-president of Alpha Psi

PFIZER AWARD The Pfizer award is a check for $400

and is given to a junior student who shows outstanding scholarship and leadshyership A representative of the Pfizer Company presented Doug Coatney withthis award Doug is a member of AVMA and OTS he is also in Phi Zeta

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MERCK AWARDS A SPECIAL TRIBUTEEngraved Merck Manuals are given to

two senior students selected by the facshyulty who have shown a fine personalshyity scholarship and leadership Dean Krill announced that this years award winners are Bill Sayle and John Mehshyling Both Bill and John are members of AVMA and OTS Bill will enter small animal practice in Amherst Ohio and John will be going to Cornell

TO DEAN KRILL In recognition for his many years of

devotion to the students of the Collegeof Veterinary Medicine Dean Krill waspresented a plaque from the Student Chapter of the AVMA Dick Whipps presented the plaque and Dean Krill then gave a stirring speech This was his last Awards Banquet as dean of ourcollege and we all shall miss him

ALUMNI NEWS1934

bullDR B E KNISELY was promoted inFebruary to Assistant Veterinarian in Charge of the Animal Health DivisionARS Puerto Rico Before going to Puerto Rico he served as a field vetshyerinarian in Ohio working on tubercushylosis brucellosis scabies scrapie vesishycular exanthema hog cholera and anshythrax outbreaks He became leader of the tuberculosis project for the state in1960 and he entered the Twelfth Vetshyerinary Administrator Development Program in 1965

1942 DR V GLENN CRAGO was elected

a regional director of the American Hospital Association in March with the

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responsibility of representing the 1500members in the Midwestern states Afshyter graduating Dr Crago was a large animal practitioner in Kinsman Ohio He entered a small animal practice withhis brother Dr Charles Crago of YoungSitown in 1946 Presently he opshyerates the Crago Veterinary Clinic withanother brother Dr W H Crago in Youngstown Ohio

1964 DR WILLIAM HUNTER will receive

his Master of Science degree this Juneand is teaching nuclear medicine in theCollege of Medicine at the Ohio State University His thesis research involvesusing radio isotopes to study bone saltmetabolism

FACULTY NEWSBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

Anatomy

Doctor Walter G Venzke met with the members of the American Commitshytee on Veterinary Anatomical Nomenshyclature at Columbia Missouri on April3 and 4 He also attended the Annual American Association of Anatomists Meeting in Kansas City Missouri on April 5 and 6

Doctor Venzke has recently been apshypointed a member of a committee on Veterinary embryological nomenclaturethat will collaborate with a similar group working in human anatomy

Surgery

Doctor Richard L Rudy attended anOrthopedic Seminar given by the Greatshyer St Louis Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation in April 1967 He also attendeda conference on Surgical Treatment ofPatent Ductus Arteriosus given by theAAHA in New York during March

Doctor Rudy reports a full house at the Orthopedic Workshop held March 17 and 18

Doctor Rudy will be present at the meeting of the Board of Regents of theAmerican College of Veterinary Surshygeons in Boston on June 5

Doctor Leroy E Johnson presented a program on Unsouncfraess in the Horse to the Groveport Ohio 4-H Club He alshyso spoke to the Cleveland Hunt Club concerning Lameness in the Hunter The Riyerridge Riding Club of Columshybus Ohio heard Doctor Johnson speak about The Horse and Destiny

Doctor Bruce Heath received a Masshyters Degree in Veterinary Surgery atSpring Commencement June 13 at TheOhio State University The title of thethesis is Physiologic Effects and Safeshyty of Preanesthetics Halothane andMethoxyflurane in Horses

bull Physiology AndPharmacology

Dr Charles R Smith conducted a seminar on Veterinary Education andResearch at Purdue University on Apshyril 6 and 7 While he was at Purdue Dr Smith visited the faculty and facilitiesAt the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri on May22 and 23 he visited faculty and facilishyties in the Departments of PhysiologyPharmacology Biochemistry and Radshyiobiology Dr Smith conducted a semshyinar Ascites in the Dog at the annualmeeting of the American Animal Hosshypital Association in New York on March16 and 17 He also attended the Springmeeting of the Council on Research AVMA in Chicago on March 13 and 14

Dr Caroline Gall will receive her MSc degree in June in Veterinary Physiology The title of her thesis is Systemic Arterial Right Ventricular and Pulmonary Artery Pressures in the Horse

Dr James N Ross will receive his MSc degree in June His thesis title is Patent Ductus Arteriosus in the Dog Clinical and Physiologic Feashytures Dr Ross will join the faculty ofthe College of Medicine at Baylor Unishyversity July 1 1967

Dr Balbir Singh Paul will receive his PhD degree in June The title of his dissertation is A Study of the Pharmacodynamics of Dihydroquinishydine in the Canine Dr Paul will reshyturn to India as Professor of Pharmashycology Hissar India

Dr Roger Yeary joined the departshymental faculty April 1 1967 as an Asshysociate Professor He will head a new program in Veterinary Toxicology andparticipate in the departmental proshygrams in Pharmacology

On February 16 1967 Dr Yeary disshycussed the subject of Pharmacologic

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Principles for Therapy of Acute Poisshyoning before the Columbus Academyof Veterinary Medicine He representedthe Ohio Veterinary Medical Associashytion at the Ohio Rural Health Council on April 5 1967 and reviewed the curshyrent status of epizootic diseases for that group At the Ohio Valley Sectionof the Institute of Food Technologistsmeeting in Columbus April 7 1967 DrYeary discussed Consumer Food Proshytection Dr Yeary was invited to preshysent a paper on Evaluation of Acute and Subacute Toxicity Studies in Newshyborn Animals at the Symposium on Perinatal Pharmacology and Toxicologyin Montreal Canada April 13 1967

A recent publication by Doctor Yearyis Cooperative Extension Service Bulshyletin 474 Medicated Feed Additives shyA Handbook on the Safe Use of Feed Additives and Drugs for Livestock andPoultry 1st Revision March 1967

Dr David Knight of the University of Pennsylvania visited with members of the faculty in April He presented two seminars on his research in heart worm disease in dogs

Dr Barry Prynn spoke in Ashland Ohio to the North Central VMA about small animal anesthesia

Dr Robert Hamlin has had a full schedule of lectures They have inshycluded Clinical Cardiology to the New Jersey VMA Sinus Arrhythmia in the Dog at the University of Califorshynia (Davis) Computer Analysis of the ECG at the Schering Corporation in New Jersey Clinical Cardiology to the Chicago VMA to the Arizona State VMA and to the Colorado State VMA Radiographic Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the American Animal Hospital Association in New York andPhysiological Basis for Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the Kansas State Unishyversity

The department has had some disshytinguished visitors and lecturers recentshyly They have included Dr David Donshyald of the Mayo Clinic Dr StanleyHarris of Kansas State University andDr David Jenson of the Scripps Instishytution of Oceanography at LaJolla Calshyifornia

Dr Hamlin reports that the laborashytories of the Program Project Biology

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of the Heart opened in the basementof Sisson Hall in April The project isgoing full blast Publications

Characteristics of Respiration in Healthy Dogs Anesthetized with Sodshyium Pentobarbital Am J Vet Res Hamlin R L and Smith C R

Detection and Quantitation of Subshyclinical Congestive Heart Failure in Dogs Hamlin R L Smith C R and Ross J N The Physiologist Vol 9 No 3 August 1966 Page 197

Contractility of the Normal Canine Ventricle Hamlin R L Smith C R

Clinical Relevancy of Heart Rate of the Dog Hamlin R L Olsen Inger Smith C R Boggs Steve

Pathology

Dr Richard A Griesemer spoke onthe Problems of Animal Bites as partof the postgraduate course for physishycians on Practical Management of Inshyfectious Disease on March 29 in the College of Medicine

Dr Griesemer presented a talk on Germfree Animals on March 28 at the meeting of the Franklin County Medical Technologists Association

On April 3 Dr Griesemer consulted with officials of the State Diagnostic Laboratory Dept of Agriculture Hashywaii on infectious disease problems in animals

In April Dr Richard A Griesemer participated in the 57th Annual Meetshying Japan Pathology Society in Nagoshyya Japan At Inuama Japan he preshysented a talk on Virus Disease Reshysearch Utilizing Germfree Animals InTokyo Dr Griesemer participated in the Panel on Germfree Life Research and also participated in the US-JapanCooperative Science Program Seminar on Gnotobiotic Technology at whichtime he spoke on Large Germfree Anishymal Methods While in Japan Dr Griesemer visited the following scienshytific institutions as consultant in germshyfree technology The National Instituteof Primatology Keio University Collegeof Medicine National Institute of Anishymal Health National Institute of Inshyfectious Diseases National Institute of

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Public Health National Institute of fectious Enteritis in the Germfree Cat Health the University of Nagoya Col- On April 1 Dr Rohovsky was apshylege of Medicine Aichi Cancer Center pointed Assistant Professor in the De-Institute of Physical and Chemical Re- partment of Veterinary Pathology search and the University of Tokyo Dr John Long presented a paper at

Dr Clarence R Cole represented the the Annual Meeting of the Internation-College of Veterinary Medicine at the al Academy of Pathology in Washing-special meeting of the American Asso- ton DC entitled Neuronal Degenershyciation of Veterinary Medical Colleges ation and Glial Response in Experishyheld in Washington DC The deans of mental Polioencephalomyelitis Dr the nations veterinary colleges were John Shadduck presented a paper on given detailed information concerning Pathogenic Properties of a Porcine the Veterinary Medical Education Act Adenovirus of 1966 and plans for organizing and Swine Polioencephalitis Virus in expediting the program designed to Germfree Pigs Viral Isolation Immunshyprovide federal funds to match state oreaction and Serum Electrophoresis appropriations by L Kasza J Holman and A Koest-

Dr Michael W Rohovsky presented ner appeared in Am J Vet Res two lectures to the Department of Vet- March 1967 erinary Pathology at Texas AampM Uni- Dr Charles C Capen presented aversity on March 10 He spoke on The paper entitled The Influence of Vita-Germfree Animal as a Research Tool min D on Calcium Metabolism and the and Feline Infectious Enteritis in the Parathyroid Glands of Cattle at aGermfree Cat symposium on The Nutritional and

Dr Rohovsky received his PhD de- Endocrine Influences on Calcium Metashygree on March 16 1967 The title of his bolism held in conjunction with the dissertation is Experimental Feline In- 51st Annual Meeting of the Federation

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The Ohio State University mdash College of Veterinary Medicine

The SPECULUM VOLUME XX SPRING 1967 NUMBER 3

Editors Thomas J Scheifer Vet Med IllVictoria L Voith Vet Med Ill

StaffShirley Clevenson Sallie Ginaven Kathy Herald Joan Hurley Dorothea Lowry Frank Pipers

Members

Don Sanders Sharon Schuman George Sikora Nancy Smatt Joseph Wagner Mike Wansky

Contributors Ronald H Bockbrader Phillip A Linerode Jay Forsyth Judy Sauerbrei Tom Hickey Richard Whipps Dean Walter R Krill Dan Wolf John C Leite Dave Zimmerman

Advertising Tom Scheifer

Circulation Don Sanders Photography

Mike Wansky

Faculty Advising Board

Dr Roger A YearymdashChairmanDr R W Redding Dr M W Scothorn

THE SPECULUM is a quarterly publication of TheOhio State University College of Veterinary Medishycine It is published by the students for the disshysemination of news to the alumni faculty studentsand other interested persons Contributions arewelcomed but we reserve the right to edit the material

INTHISISSUE

FEATURES

People in the College 16 Canine Research Projects 30 Youre the Doctor 38

COLLEGE NEWS

Across the Deans Desk 3 Alumni News 9 Faculty News 10 College Acquires Business Office 15 AVMA News 28 Speakers Bureau 29 Ohio State Fair Exhibit 29 Omega Tau Sigma 35 The Chiron 35 Alpha Psi 36 AVMA Research Scholarship 37

ADVERTISING INDEX

AMCO 12 Butler IFC Columbus Serum OBC Continental Insurance Co 15 Eaton 40 Fort Dodge 32 Hill Packing 37 Massengill 8 Norden 34 Ohio Stater 29 Orthopedic Supply Co 4 Pitman-Moore 26 Vitamineral IampC West-Camp Press Inc 31

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Across the

DEANS DESK

Many things have happened since writing my contribution to the winter issue of the Speculum Most importantof course was the appointment of Dr Clarence Cole as my successor the comshyplete story of which was included in the winter issue of The Speculum I can assure you that Dr Cole has all the qualifications to furnish the leadershipwhich our college needs in the years ahead and based on his professional record of accomplishment to date I have full confidence that the future of the college is in good hands If Dr Coleis to make his greatest contribution hemust have the wholehearted support ofthe faculty and alumni and I sincerelyask that you give him the same measureof support given to me over the past twenty-one years

Dr Coles appointment coming as itdid just before Mrs Krill and I left onour trip to India where I spent four weeks reviewing the Veterinary Colshyleges connected with the AID Programunder the University Contract made our trip so much more enjoyable knowshying that the projected six year programrequested from the college along withnext years budget would be developedby the one responsible for its adminisshytration As in all previous cases when I have visited foreign countries I feel that I received far more than I gave Traveling in foreign lands a term which is really no longer appropriatebecause of our speed of travel communshyication and vast amount of information available about all areas of the unishyverse is a challenging educational ex-

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perience if one maintains an unbiased point of view and does not judge everyshything according to our countrys standshyards In every country which I have evshyer visited there are always things I havewished to bring back and inculcate in our American way of life And of courseMrs Krill like all normal women saw some of the most beautiful items of native handicraft which she also felt compelled to bring back Naturally one sees some things which are somewhat startling at first especially in the areaof living standards Many of the thingswhich have become a necessity to our way of life are not available to the masses while those in the higher strataof society have them in a limited moreprimitive fashion

Does this mean that there is less hapshypiness among the people in these less developed countries where our modernconveniences are not available In all honesty I would have to say no I haveseen the same genuine smile of satisfacshytion pride of accomplishment and far closer family ties in the less opulentcountries than I see in our own countrywhere so much emphasis is placed on material things and keeping up with the neighbors As a result I often ask myself What is happiness and what is the essential ingredient necessary to make people happy S o m e w h e r e among my accumulation of proverbsand quotations which was started earshyly in my high school days I found thefollowing which comes nearest to anshyswering the question

Happiness in life comes from within not from without

This must be the answer because in the absence of material things upon which we place such great emphasis for our happiness these people seem to have learned that satisfaction comes from doing things with their hands personalpride family loyalty things which canshynot be bought We marvel at the art and craftsmanship these people possess for which they receive very little pay and we Americans acquire the beautiful things they make and regard them as prized possessions There is a certain inner-satisfaction as well as relaxation which comes from creating and doing things with ones hands which money cannot buy All you need to do is look among your friends and neighbors and I feel sure you will find the greatest genuine happiness among those who have pride in their home have learned the pleasure of creating something in which they have invested part of themshyselves and are always ready to serve their fellow man when needed Of one thing I am certain and that is - Money and material things in themselves do not bring happiness In fact the least happy persons I have known are those who placed a dollar sign on everything they did and never experienced the genuine happiness which comes from doing something out of the goodness of their heart While we in this country can be most proud of the material things made available for our pleasure and enjoyment through modern techshynology the big challenge of the future is to use these products in their true perspective and not allow this environshyment of opulence to destroy our initiashy

tive our sense of values and our motishyvation to develop our inherent talents to their fullest potential

Since this will be my last Across the Deans Desk contribution to the Specshyulum may I say that I haye really enshyjoyed the opportunity to share with you information about the college and on occasion my p e r s o n a l views and thoughts No Dean has ever had more loyal support from the alumni than I have had and this has been a real inshyspiration and stimulus to me I am sorshyry that all our building hopes have not been realized during my term as Dean but at least the ground work has been laid and building of the Veterinary Hosshypital should get underway in the not too distant future Having spent all but twoof my adult years since entering college in 1919 here at the Ohio State Univershysity I have a deep sense of gratitude for the opportunity it has afforded me and I sincerely hope that I have been worthy and lived up to the responsibilishyties entrusted in me I can only say that I have tried to fulfill my obligation with honesty and dignity in the best intershyests of the college and the profession

The most prized possession Mrs Krilland I will always cherish is a storeshyhouse of pleasant memories accumushylated over the years and in which all of you have been a part For this we exshytend to you and all our university asshysociates our sincerest thanks Once we become footloose and free dont be surshyprised if the telephone rings and someshyone says this is your Old Dean just passing through

SincerelyWalter R Krill Dean

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AVMA Awards Banquet By TOM HICKEY Vet Med Ill

The Ohio State Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation held its annual Awards Banquet at the Nationwide Inn on May 19 1967 Approximately 200 students faculty members and guests were present The banquet service was excellent this yearand this helped make the evening even more enjoyable After a welcoming adshydress by president Mike Youshak the Master of Ceremonies was introduced Frank Pipers did a magnificent job of joke-telling introducing and stalling for time until the band arrived (were there really that many people killed in the Civil War) After the banquet and presentation of awards the tables were pulled back and everyone had a fine time dancing to the music of The Inshysiders courtesy of the W A Butler Company The awards presented duringthe banquet were as follows

A V M A AWARDS President-elect Tom Hickey presented

the junior keys and senior certificates to those students who qualified The reshyquirement for the award is that the junshyiors must have attended at least half of the meetings for each of the three years they have been in school and the seniors must have attended at least half of the meetings for each of their four years

The junior keys were presented to Fred Adams Ron Banning Al Bryant Tom Burke Larry Dickey Tom Hickey Joan Hurley Dick Knight George Nyshyland Jim Popp Don Sanders Judy Sauerbrei Larry Sautter W a r r e n Snead Joe Starcher Walt Threlfall Mike Wansky and Dan Wolf

The senior certificates were presented to Mike Andrews John Bishop Richshyard Dailey Dale Duerr Dottie Lowry Dick Gurevitz Bob Henry Dean Kraus James Lonz Bruce Marhefka Dan Paulo Bill Reynolds Bill Sayle Dick Whipps Bill Yakley and Mike Youshak

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BORDEN AWARD The Borden Award consists of a $300

check a certificate and a plaque This award goes to the member of the senior class who attained the highest scholasshytic record in all veterinary studies prior to the fourth year Mr J Hoffshyman Erb vice-president in charge of production for the Borden Company presented the award to Flo Rutledge This is the first time that the award has been given to a member of the fairshyer sex Flo is a member of AVMA and Phi Zeta She was also editor of the Chiron this year

SPECULUM AWARDS Dr Yeary presented certificates to

the following staff members of The Speculum for their fine efforts ShirleyClevenson Joan Hurley Frank PipersDon Sanders Bill Sayle Tom Schiefer Dick Segall George Sikora Victoria Voith Mike Wansky Mike Youshak Victoria Voith and Tom Schiefer were named next years co-editors

OMEGA TAU SIGMA AWARD The Omega Tau Sigma Award is preshy

sented to the senior student showingthe most promise as a clinician and outshystanding practitioner A committee of the clinical staff chooses the recipient ofthis award based on character scholarshyship leadership and adeptness and inshyterest in performing his clinical dutiesDon Heagren presented this yearsaward to John Mehling John is a memshyber of the AVMA and will be assigned to the ambulatory section at Cornell University John is married and his wife who is also a veterinarian will accompany him to Cornell

NATIONAL WOMENS AUXILIARY AWARD

The National Womens Auxiliary Award was presented by Mrs Keith Wearly to the senior who has contribshyuted most to advance the prestige of veterinary medicine both here at the University and to the general publicThis year the $75 award was presentedto Bill Yakley Bill is a member of OTSand has been very active in the AVMAHe is currently vice-president and served last year as chairman of the live-surgery exhibit committee Bill is marshyried and will be going to Washington

State University where he will be an instructor in the Dept of Small AnimalMedicine and Surgery

DEANS AWARD Dr Roger Yeary presented this years

Deans Award to Dotty Lowry and JoeWagner This award is presented for outstanding service to The Speculum Joe and Dotty are currently co-editorsof this publication

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ALPHA PSI ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP The Alpha Psi Alumni Scholarship is

awarded to a junior student who exhibshyits a promising potential and who has proven his scholastic ability Dr Mc-Kissick presented the $100 award to George Nyland George is married anda member of Alpha Psi fraternity

PHI ZETA AWARDS Memberships in the Delta Chapter of

Phi Zeta the veterinary medical honorsociety were extended to those personsin the upper ten percent of the juniorclass and those in the upper twenty-fivepercent of the senior class who had notpreviously been extended the honor FloRutledge announced the following recipshyients

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1968 James A PoppLarry E DickeyMichael Wolland Douglas CoatneyWilliam Sternecker Thomas J Burke Carl Alden

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1967 E Clinton LowryDorothea Freitas LowryEugene BreznockRichard DaileyH Rodney FergusonLance 0 Lollini James Lonz Bill B ReynoldsRichard Soldner

CHIRON AWARDS

The Chiron is the official yearbook ofthe College of Veterinary Medicine andthe chiron awards are presented to those people who have given of their time and service so that the yearbookmay be published This is the first yearfor the Chiron and thus the first yearfor this award Editor Flo Rutledge preshysented the following people with certifishycates Pete Cyrog Stan EichelbergerBob Fritz Sally Ginaven Tom HickeyRon Jennings Larry Miley Marty Putshykonen Bill Reynolds Don Sanders JudySauerbrei Bill Sayle George Sikora Joe Starcher Bob Temple Victoria L Voith Mike Wansky Dick WhippsMike Youshak Dr Loeb Advisor Don Sanders was named next years editor

STUDENT AUXILIARY AWARD

Mrs Carole Kraus presented the Stushydent Auxiliary Award of $50 to Tom Hickey This award is given to a juniorwho in order to be eligible must be married must be a voting member of the Student AVMA his wife must be a voting member of the Auxiliary andhe must have at least a 25 accum through winter quarter of the junioryear The winners name is drawn fromthose who are eligible Tom is a memshyber of Alpha Psi and will be presidentof the AVMA next year

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ALPHA PSI JUNIOR AWARD The recipient of the Alpha Psi Junior

award is chosen by the faculty on the basis of scholarship interest personalshyity and character Alpha Psi presidentJim Syler presented the plaque to a deshyserving but much surprised Tom BurkeTom is a member of AVMA and is vice-president of Alpha Psi

PFIZER AWARD The Pfizer award is a check for $400

and is given to a junior student who shows outstanding scholarship and leadshyership A representative of the Pfizer Company presented Doug Coatney withthis award Doug is a member of AVMA and OTS he is also in Phi Zeta

Beggars are chooserswhen its

Keep your patients alert and lively Support gestation and lactation Aid convalescence-all with supplemental Pet-Tabs so palatable that dogs and cats take them eagerly right from the hand or crumbled into the ration Bottles of 50 and 500 tablets Consult package label for dosage information Also available Pet-Tabs Jr for toy breeds and cats

MASSENGILLVeterinary Division The S E Masseng i l l Company Br is to l Tennessee

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MERCK AWARDS A SPECIAL TRIBUTEEngraved Merck Manuals are given to

two senior students selected by the facshyulty who have shown a fine personalshyity scholarship and leadership Dean Krill announced that this years award winners are Bill Sayle and John Mehshyling Both Bill and John are members of AVMA and OTS Bill will enter small animal practice in Amherst Ohio and John will be going to Cornell

TO DEAN KRILL In recognition for his many years of

devotion to the students of the Collegeof Veterinary Medicine Dean Krill waspresented a plaque from the Student Chapter of the AVMA Dick Whipps presented the plaque and Dean Krill then gave a stirring speech This was his last Awards Banquet as dean of ourcollege and we all shall miss him

ALUMNI NEWS1934

bullDR B E KNISELY was promoted inFebruary to Assistant Veterinarian in Charge of the Animal Health DivisionARS Puerto Rico Before going to Puerto Rico he served as a field vetshyerinarian in Ohio working on tubercushylosis brucellosis scabies scrapie vesishycular exanthema hog cholera and anshythrax outbreaks He became leader of the tuberculosis project for the state in1960 and he entered the Twelfth Vetshyerinary Administrator Development Program in 1965

1942 DR V GLENN CRAGO was elected

a regional director of the American Hospital Association in March with the

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responsibility of representing the 1500members in the Midwestern states Afshyter graduating Dr Crago was a large animal practitioner in Kinsman Ohio He entered a small animal practice withhis brother Dr Charles Crago of YoungSitown in 1946 Presently he opshyerates the Crago Veterinary Clinic withanother brother Dr W H Crago in Youngstown Ohio

1964 DR WILLIAM HUNTER will receive

his Master of Science degree this Juneand is teaching nuclear medicine in theCollege of Medicine at the Ohio State University His thesis research involvesusing radio isotopes to study bone saltmetabolism

FACULTY NEWSBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

Anatomy

Doctor Walter G Venzke met with the members of the American Commitshytee on Veterinary Anatomical Nomenshyclature at Columbia Missouri on April3 and 4 He also attended the Annual American Association of Anatomists Meeting in Kansas City Missouri on April 5 and 6

Doctor Venzke has recently been apshypointed a member of a committee on Veterinary embryological nomenclaturethat will collaborate with a similar group working in human anatomy

Surgery

Doctor Richard L Rudy attended anOrthopedic Seminar given by the Greatshyer St Louis Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation in April 1967 He also attendeda conference on Surgical Treatment ofPatent Ductus Arteriosus given by theAAHA in New York during March

Doctor Rudy reports a full house at the Orthopedic Workshop held March 17 and 18

Doctor Rudy will be present at the meeting of the Board of Regents of theAmerican College of Veterinary Surshygeons in Boston on June 5

Doctor Leroy E Johnson presented a program on Unsouncfraess in the Horse to the Groveport Ohio 4-H Club He alshyso spoke to the Cleveland Hunt Club concerning Lameness in the Hunter The Riyerridge Riding Club of Columshybus Ohio heard Doctor Johnson speak about The Horse and Destiny

Doctor Bruce Heath received a Masshyters Degree in Veterinary Surgery atSpring Commencement June 13 at TheOhio State University The title of thethesis is Physiologic Effects and Safeshyty of Preanesthetics Halothane andMethoxyflurane in Horses

bull Physiology AndPharmacology

Dr Charles R Smith conducted a seminar on Veterinary Education andResearch at Purdue University on Apshyril 6 and 7 While he was at Purdue Dr Smith visited the faculty and facilitiesAt the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri on May22 and 23 he visited faculty and facilishyties in the Departments of PhysiologyPharmacology Biochemistry and Radshyiobiology Dr Smith conducted a semshyinar Ascites in the Dog at the annualmeeting of the American Animal Hosshypital Association in New York on March16 and 17 He also attended the Springmeeting of the Council on Research AVMA in Chicago on March 13 and 14

Dr Caroline Gall will receive her MSc degree in June in Veterinary Physiology The title of her thesis is Systemic Arterial Right Ventricular and Pulmonary Artery Pressures in the Horse

Dr James N Ross will receive his MSc degree in June His thesis title is Patent Ductus Arteriosus in the Dog Clinical and Physiologic Feashytures Dr Ross will join the faculty ofthe College of Medicine at Baylor Unishyversity July 1 1967

Dr Balbir Singh Paul will receive his PhD degree in June The title of his dissertation is A Study of the Pharmacodynamics of Dihydroquinishydine in the Canine Dr Paul will reshyturn to India as Professor of Pharmashycology Hissar India

Dr Roger Yeary joined the departshymental faculty April 1 1967 as an Asshysociate Professor He will head a new program in Veterinary Toxicology andparticipate in the departmental proshygrams in Pharmacology

On February 16 1967 Dr Yeary disshycussed the subject of Pharmacologic

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Principles for Therapy of Acute Poisshyoning before the Columbus Academyof Veterinary Medicine He representedthe Ohio Veterinary Medical Associashytion at the Ohio Rural Health Council on April 5 1967 and reviewed the curshyrent status of epizootic diseases for that group At the Ohio Valley Sectionof the Institute of Food Technologistsmeeting in Columbus April 7 1967 DrYeary discussed Consumer Food Proshytection Dr Yeary was invited to preshysent a paper on Evaluation of Acute and Subacute Toxicity Studies in Newshyborn Animals at the Symposium on Perinatal Pharmacology and Toxicologyin Montreal Canada April 13 1967

A recent publication by Doctor Yearyis Cooperative Extension Service Bulshyletin 474 Medicated Feed Additives shyA Handbook on the Safe Use of Feed Additives and Drugs for Livestock andPoultry 1st Revision March 1967

Dr David Knight of the University of Pennsylvania visited with members of the faculty in April He presented two seminars on his research in heart worm disease in dogs

Dr Barry Prynn spoke in Ashland Ohio to the North Central VMA about small animal anesthesia

Dr Robert Hamlin has had a full schedule of lectures They have inshycluded Clinical Cardiology to the New Jersey VMA Sinus Arrhythmia in the Dog at the University of Califorshynia (Davis) Computer Analysis of the ECG at the Schering Corporation in New Jersey Clinical Cardiology to the Chicago VMA to the Arizona State VMA and to the Colorado State VMA Radiographic Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the American Animal Hospital Association in New York andPhysiological Basis for Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the Kansas State Unishyversity

The department has had some disshytinguished visitors and lecturers recentshyly They have included Dr David Donshyald of the Mayo Clinic Dr StanleyHarris of Kansas State University andDr David Jenson of the Scripps Instishytution of Oceanography at LaJolla Calshyifornia

Dr Hamlin reports that the laborashytories of the Program Project Biology

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of the Heart opened in the basementof Sisson Hall in April The project isgoing full blast Publications

Characteristics of Respiration in Healthy Dogs Anesthetized with Sodshyium Pentobarbital Am J Vet Res Hamlin R L and Smith C R

Detection and Quantitation of Subshyclinical Congestive Heart Failure in Dogs Hamlin R L Smith C R and Ross J N The Physiologist Vol 9 No 3 August 1966 Page 197

Contractility of the Normal Canine Ventricle Hamlin R L Smith C R

Clinical Relevancy of Heart Rate of the Dog Hamlin R L Olsen Inger Smith C R Boggs Steve

Pathology

Dr Richard A Griesemer spoke onthe Problems of Animal Bites as partof the postgraduate course for physishycians on Practical Management of Inshyfectious Disease on March 29 in the College of Medicine

Dr Griesemer presented a talk on Germfree Animals on March 28 at the meeting of the Franklin County Medical Technologists Association

On April 3 Dr Griesemer consulted with officials of the State Diagnostic Laboratory Dept of Agriculture Hashywaii on infectious disease problems in animals

In April Dr Richard A Griesemer participated in the 57th Annual Meetshying Japan Pathology Society in Nagoshyya Japan At Inuama Japan he preshysented a talk on Virus Disease Reshysearch Utilizing Germfree Animals InTokyo Dr Griesemer participated in the Panel on Germfree Life Research and also participated in the US-JapanCooperative Science Program Seminar on Gnotobiotic Technology at whichtime he spoke on Large Germfree Anishymal Methods While in Japan Dr Griesemer visited the following scienshytific institutions as consultant in germshyfree technology The National Instituteof Primatology Keio University Collegeof Medicine National Institute of Anishymal Health National Institute of Inshyfectious Diseases National Institute of

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Public Health National Institute of fectious Enteritis in the Germfree Cat Health the University of Nagoya Col- On April 1 Dr Rohovsky was apshylege of Medicine Aichi Cancer Center pointed Assistant Professor in the De-Institute of Physical and Chemical Re- partment of Veterinary Pathology search and the University of Tokyo Dr John Long presented a paper at

Dr Clarence R Cole represented the the Annual Meeting of the Internation-College of Veterinary Medicine at the al Academy of Pathology in Washing-special meeting of the American Asso- ton DC entitled Neuronal Degenershyciation of Veterinary Medical Colleges ation and Glial Response in Experishyheld in Washington DC The deans of mental Polioencephalomyelitis Dr the nations veterinary colleges were John Shadduck presented a paper on given detailed information concerning Pathogenic Properties of a Porcine the Veterinary Medical Education Act Adenovirus of 1966 and plans for organizing and Swine Polioencephalitis Virus in expediting the program designed to Germfree Pigs Viral Isolation Immunshyprovide federal funds to match state oreaction and Serum Electrophoresis appropriations by L Kasza J Holman and A Koest-

Dr Michael W Rohovsky presented ner appeared in Am J Vet Res two lectures to the Department of Vet- March 1967 erinary Pathology at Texas AampM Uni- Dr Charles C Capen presented aversity on March 10 He spoke on The paper entitled The Influence of Vita-Germfree Animal as a Research Tool min D on Calcium Metabolism and the and Feline Infectious Enteritis in the Parathyroid Glands of Cattle at aGermfree Cat symposium on The Nutritional and

Dr Rohovsky received his PhD de- Endocrine Influences on Calcium Metashygree on March 16 1967 The title of his bolism held in conjunction with the dissertation is Experimental Feline In- 51st Annual Meeting of the Federation

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Across the

DEANS DESK

Many things have happened since writing my contribution to the winter issue of the Speculum Most importantof course was the appointment of Dr Clarence Cole as my successor the comshyplete story of which was included in the winter issue of The Speculum I can assure you that Dr Cole has all the qualifications to furnish the leadershipwhich our college needs in the years ahead and based on his professional record of accomplishment to date I have full confidence that the future of the college is in good hands If Dr Coleis to make his greatest contribution hemust have the wholehearted support ofthe faculty and alumni and I sincerelyask that you give him the same measureof support given to me over the past twenty-one years

Dr Coles appointment coming as itdid just before Mrs Krill and I left onour trip to India where I spent four weeks reviewing the Veterinary Colshyleges connected with the AID Programunder the University Contract made our trip so much more enjoyable knowshying that the projected six year programrequested from the college along withnext years budget would be developedby the one responsible for its adminisshytration As in all previous cases when I have visited foreign countries I feel that I received far more than I gave Traveling in foreign lands a term which is really no longer appropriatebecause of our speed of travel communshyication and vast amount of information available about all areas of the unishyverse is a challenging educational ex-

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perience if one maintains an unbiased point of view and does not judge everyshything according to our countrys standshyards In every country which I have evshyer visited there are always things I havewished to bring back and inculcate in our American way of life And of courseMrs Krill like all normal women saw some of the most beautiful items of native handicraft which she also felt compelled to bring back Naturally one sees some things which are somewhat startling at first especially in the areaof living standards Many of the thingswhich have become a necessity to our way of life are not available to the masses while those in the higher strataof society have them in a limited moreprimitive fashion

Does this mean that there is less hapshypiness among the people in these less developed countries where our modernconveniences are not available In all honesty I would have to say no I haveseen the same genuine smile of satisfacshytion pride of accomplishment and far closer family ties in the less opulentcountries than I see in our own countrywhere so much emphasis is placed on material things and keeping up with the neighbors As a result I often ask myself What is happiness and what is the essential ingredient necessary to make people happy S o m e w h e r e among my accumulation of proverbsand quotations which was started earshyly in my high school days I found thefollowing which comes nearest to anshyswering the question

Happiness in life comes from within not from without

This must be the answer because in the absence of material things upon which we place such great emphasis for our happiness these people seem to have learned that satisfaction comes from doing things with their hands personalpride family loyalty things which canshynot be bought We marvel at the art and craftsmanship these people possess for which they receive very little pay and we Americans acquire the beautiful things they make and regard them as prized possessions There is a certain inner-satisfaction as well as relaxation which comes from creating and doing things with ones hands which money cannot buy All you need to do is look among your friends and neighbors and I feel sure you will find the greatest genuine happiness among those who have pride in their home have learned the pleasure of creating something in which they have invested part of themshyselves and are always ready to serve their fellow man when needed Of one thing I am certain and that is - Money and material things in themselves do not bring happiness In fact the least happy persons I have known are those who placed a dollar sign on everything they did and never experienced the genuine happiness which comes from doing something out of the goodness of their heart While we in this country can be most proud of the material things made available for our pleasure and enjoyment through modern techshynology the big challenge of the future is to use these products in their true perspective and not allow this environshyment of opulence to destroy our initiashy

tive our sense of values and our motishyvation to develop our inherent talents to their fullest potential

Since this will be my last Across the Deans Desk contribution to the Specshyulum may I say that I haye really enshyjoyed the opportunity to share with you information about the college and on occasion my p e r s o n a l views and thoughts No Dean has ever had more loyal support from the alumni than I have had and this has been a real inshyspiration and stimulus to me I am sorshyry that all our building hopes have not been realized during my term as Dean but at least the ground work has been laid and building of the Veterinary Hosshypital should get underway in the not too distant future Having spent all but twoof my adult years since entering college in 1919 here at the Ohio State Univershysity I have a deep sense of gratitude for the opportunity it has afforded me and I sincerely hope that I have been worthy and lived up to the responsibilishyties entrusted in me I can only say that I have tried to fulfill my obligation with honesty and dignity in the best intershyests of the college and the profession

The most prized possession Mrs Krilland I will always cherish is a storeshyhouse of pleasant memories accumushylated over the years and in which all of you have been a part For this we exshytend to you and all our university asshysociates our sincerest thanks Once we become footloose and free dont be surshyprised if the telephone rings and someshyone says this is your Old Dean just passing through

SincerelyWalter R Krill Dean

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AVMA Awards Banquet By TOM HICKEY Vet Med Ill

The Ohio State Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation held its annual Awards Banquet at the Nationwide Inn on May 19 1967 Approximately 200 students faculty members and guests were present The banquet service was excellent this yearand this helped make the evening even more enjoyable After a welcoming adshydress by president Mike Youshak the Master of Ceremonies was introduced Frank Pipers did a magnificent job of joke-telling introducing and stalling for time until the band arrived (were there really that many people killed in the Civil War) After the banquet and presentation of awards the tables were pulled back and everyone had a fine time dancing to the music of The Inshysiders courtesy of the W A Butler Company The awards presented duringthe banquet were as follows

A V M A AWARDS President-elect Tom Hickey presented

the junior keys and senior certificates to those students who qualified The reshyquirement for the award is that the junshyiors must have attended at least half of the meetings for each of the three years they have been in school and the seniors must have attended at least half of the meetings for each of their four years

The junior keys were presented to Fred Adams Ron Banning Al Bryant Tom Burke Larry Dickey Tom Hickey Joan Hurley Dick Knight George Nyshyland Jim Popp Don Sanders Judy Sauerbrei Larry Sautter W a r r e n Snead Joe Starcher Walt Threlfall Mike Wansky and Dan Wolf

The senior certificates were presented to Mike Andrews John Bishop Richshyard Dailey Dale Duerr Dottie Lowry Dick Gurevitz Bob Henry Dean Kraus James Lonz Bruce Marhefka Dan Paulo Bill Reynolds Bill Sayle Dick Whipps Bill Yakley and Mike Youshak

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BORDEN AWARD The Borden Award consists of a $300

check a certificate and a plaque This award goes to the member of the senior class who attained the highest scholasshytic record in all veterinary studies prior to the fourth year Mr J Hoffshyman Erb vice-president in charge of production for the Borden Company presented the award to Flo Rutledge This is the first time that the award has been given to a member of the fairshyer sex Flo is a member of AVMA and Phi Zeta She was also editor of the Chiron this year

SPECULUM AWARDS Dr Yeary presented certificates to

the following staff members of The Speculum for their fine efforts ShirleyClevenson Joan Hurley Frank PipersDon Sanders Bill Sayle Tom Schiefer Dick Segall George Sikora Victoria Voith Mike Wansky Mike Youshak Victoria Voith and Tom Schiefer were named next years co-editors

OMEGA TAU SIGMA AWARD The Omega Tau Sigma Award is preshy

sented to the senior student showingthe most promise as a clinician and outshystanding practitioner A committee of the clinical staff chooses the recipient ofthis award based on character scholarshyship leadership and adeptness and inshyterest in performing his clinical dutiesDon Heagren presented this yearsaward to John Mehling John is a memshyber of the AVMA and will be assigned to the ambulatory section at Cornell University John is married and his wife who is also a veterinarian will accompany him to Cornell

NATIONAL WOMENS AUXILIARY AWARD

The National Womens Auxiliary Award was presented by Mrs Keith Wearly to the senior who has contribshyuted most to advance the prestige of veterinary medicine both here at the University and to the general publicThis year the $75 award was presentedto Bill Yakley Bill is a member of OTSand has been very active in the AVMAHe is currently vice-president and served last year as chairman of the live-surgery exhibit committee Bill is marshyried and will be going to Washington

State University where he will be an instructor in the Dept of Small AnimalMedicine and Surgery

DEANS AWARD Dr Roger Yeary presented this years

Deans Award to Dotty Lowry and JoeWagner This award is presented for outstanding service to The Speculum Joe and Dotty are currently co-editorsof this publication

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ALPHA PSI ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP The Alpha Psi Alumni Scholarship is

awarded to a junior student who exhibshyits a promising potential and who has proven his scholastic ability Dr Mc-Kissick presented the $100 award to George Nyland George is married anda member of Alpha Psi fraternity

PHI ZETA AWARDS Memberships in the Delta Chapter of

Phi Zeta the veterinary medical honorsociety were extended to those personsin the upper ten percent of the juniorclass and those in the upper twenty-fivepercent of the senior class who had notpreviously been extended the honor FloRutledge announced the following recipshyients

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1968 James A PoppLarry E DickeyMichael Wolland Douglas CoatneyWilliam Sternecker Thomas J Burke Carl Alden

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1967 E Clinton LowryDorothea Freitas LowryEugene BreznockRichard DaileyH Rodney FergusonLance 0 Lollini James Lonz Bill B ReynoldsRichard Soldner

CHIRON AWARDS

The Chiron is the official yearbook ofthe College of Veterinary Medicine andthe chiron awards are presented to those people who have given of their time and service so that the yearbookmay be published This is the first yearfor the Chiron and thus the first yearfor this award Editor Flo Rutledge preshysented the following people with certifishycates Pete Cyrog Stan EichelbergerBob Fritz Sally Ginaven Tom HickeyRon Jennings Larry Miley Marty Putshykonen Bill Reynolds Don Sanders JudySauerbrei Bill Sayle George Sikora Joe Starcher Bob Temple Victoria L Voith Mike Wansky Dick WhippsMike Youshak Dr Loeb Advisor Don Sanders was named next years editor

STUDENT AUXILIARY AWARD

Mrs Carole Kraus presented the Stushydent Auxiliary Award of $50 to Tom Hickey This award is given to a juniorwho in order to be eligible must be married must be a voting member of the Student AVMA his wife must be a voting member of the Auxiliary andhe must have at least a 25 accum through winter quarter of the junioryear The winners name is drawn fromthose who are eligible Tom is a memshyber of Alpha Psi and will be presidentof the AVMA next year

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ALPHA PSI JUNIOR AWARD The recipient of the Alpha Psi Junior

award is chosen by the faculty on the basis of scholarship interest personalshyity and character Alpha Psi presidentJim Syler presented the plaque to a deshyserving but much surprised Tom BurkeTom is a member of AVMA and is vice-president of Alpha Psi

PFIZER AWARD The Pfizer award is a check for $400

and is given to a junior student who shows outstanding scholarship and leadshyership A representative of the Pfizer Company presented Doug Coatney withthis award Doug is a member of AVMA and OTS he is also in Phi Zeta

Beggars are chooserswhen its

Keep your patients alert and lively Support gestation and lactation Aid convalescence-all with supplemental Pet-Tabs so palatable that dogs and cats take them eagerly right from the hand or crumbled into the ration Bottles of 50 and 500 tablets Consult package label for dosage information Also available Pet-Tabs Jr for toy breeds and cats

MASSENGILLVeterinary Division The S E Masseng i l l Company Br is to l Tennessee

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MERCK AWARDS A SPECIAL TRIBUTEEngraved Merck Manuals are given to

two senior students selected by the facshyulty who have shown a fine personalshyity scholarship and leadership Dean Krill announced that this years award winners are Bill Sayle and John Mehshyling Both Bill and John are members of AVMA and OTS Bill will enter small animal practice in Amherst Ohio and John will be going to Cornell

TO DEAN KRILL In recognition for his many years of

devotion to the students of the Collegeof Veterinary Medicine Dean Krill waspresented a plaque from the Student Chapter of the AVMA Dick Whipps presented the plaque and Dean Krill then gave a stirring speech This was his last Awards Banquet as dean of ourcollege and we all shall miss him

ALUMNI NEWS1934

bullDR B E KNISELY was promoted inFebruary to Assistant Veterinarian in Charge of the Animal Health DivisionARS Puerto Rico Before going to Puerto Rico he served as a field vetshyerinarian in Ohio working on tubercushylosis brucellosis scabies scrapie vesishycular exanthema hog cholera and anshythrax outbreaks He became leader of the tuberculosis project for the state in1960 and he entered the Twelfth Vetshyerinary Administrator Development Program in 1965

1942 DR V GLENN CRAGO was elected

a regional director of the American Hospital Association in March with the

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responsibility of representing the 1500members in the Midwestern states Afshyter graduating Dr Crago was a large animal practitioner in Kinsman Ohio He entered a small animal practice withhis brother Dr Charles Crago of YoungSitown in 1946 Presently he opshyerates the Crago Veterinary Clinic withanother brother Dr W H Crago in Youngstown Ohio

1964 DR WILLIAM HUNTER will receive

his Master of Science degree this Juneand is teaching nuclear medicine in theCollege of Medicine at the Ohio State University His thesis research involvesusing radio isotopes to study bone saltmetabolism

FACULTY NEWSBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

Anatomy

Doctor Walter G Venzke met with the members of the American Commitshytee on Veterinary Anatomical Nomenshyclature at Columbia Missouri on April3 and 4 He also attended the Annual American Association of Anatomists Meeting in Kansas City Missouri on April 5 and 6

Doctor Venzke has recently been apshypointed a member of a committee on Veterinary embryological nomenclaturethat will collaborate with a similar group working in human anatomy

Surgery

Doctor Richard L Rudy attended anOrthopedic Seminar given by the Greatshyer St Louis Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation in April 1967 He also attendeda conference on Surgical Treatment ofPatent Ductus Arteriosus given by theAAHA in New York during March

Doctor Rudy reports a full house at the Orthopedic Workshop held March 17 and 18

Doctor Rudy will be present at the meeting of the Board of Regents of theAmerican College of Veterinary Surshygeons in Boston on June 5

Doctor Leroy E Johnson presented a program on Unsouncfraess in the Horse to the Groveport Ohio 4-H Club He alshyso spoke to the Cleveland Hunt Club concerning Lameness in the Hunter The Riyerridge Riding Club of Columshybus Ohio heard Doctor Johnson speak about The Horse and Destiny

Doctor Bruce Heath received a Masshyters Degree in Veterinary Surgery atSpring Commencement June 13 at TheOhio State University The title of thethesis is Physiologic Effects and Safeshyty of Preanesthetics Halothane andMethoxyflurane in Horses

bull Physiology AndPharmacology

Dr Charles R Smith conducted a seminar on Veterinary Education andResearch at Purdue University on Apshyril 6 and 7 While he was at Purdue Dr Smith visited the faculty and facilitiesAt the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri on May22 and 23 he visited faculty and facilishyties in the Departments of PhysiologyPharmacology Biochemistry and Radshyiobiology Dr Smith conducted a semshyinar Ascites in the Dog at the annualmeeting of the American Animal Hosshypital Association in New York on March16 and 17 He also attended the Springmeeting of the Council on Research AVMA in Chicago on March 13 and 14

Dr Caroline Gall will receive her MSc degree in June in Veterinary Physiology The title of her thesis is Systemic Arterial Right Ventricular and Pulmonary Artery Pressures in the Horse

Dr James N Ross will receive his MSc degree in June His thesis title is Patent Ductus Arteriosus in the Dog Clinical and Physiologic Feashytures Dr Ross will join the faculty ofthe College of Medicine at Baylor Unishyversity July 1 1967

Dr Balbir Singh Paul will receive his PhD degree in June The title of his dissertation is A Study of the Pharmacodynamics of Dihydroquinishydine in the Canine Dr Paul will reshyturn to India as Professor of Pharmashycology Hissar India

Dr Roger Yeary joined the departshymental faculty April 1 1967 as an Asshysociate Professor He will head a new program in Veterinary Toxicology andparticipate in the departmental proshygrams in Pharmacology

On February 16 1967 Dr Yeary disshycussed the subject of Pharmacologic

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Principles for Therapy of Acute Poisshyoning before the Columbus Academyof Veterinary Medicine He representedthe Ohio Veterinary Medical Associashytion at the Ohio Rural Health Council on April 5 1967 and reviewed the curshyrent status of epizootic diseases for that group At the Ohio Valley Sectionof the Institute of Food Technologistsmeeting in Columbus April 7 1967 DrYeary discussed Consumer Food Proshytection Dr Yeary was invited to preshysent a paper on Evaluation of Acute and Subacute Toxicity Studies in Newshyborn Animals at the Symposium on Perinatal Pharmacology and Toxicologyin Montreal Canada April 13 1967

A recent publication by Doctor Yearyis Cooperative Extension Service Bulshyletin 474 Medicated Feed Additives shyA Handbook on the Safe Use of Feed Additives and Drugs for Livestock andPoultry 1st Revision March 1967

Dr David Knight of the University of Pennsylvania visited with members of the faculty in April He presented two seminars on his research in heart worm disease in dogs

Dr Barry Prynn spoke in Ashland Ohio to the North Central VMA about small animal anesthesia

Dr Robert Hamlin has had a full schedule of lectures They have inshycluded Clinical Cardiology to the New Jersey VMA Sinus Arrhythmia in the Dog at the University of Califorshynia (Davis) Computer Analysis of the ECG at the Schering Corporation in New Jersey Clinical Cardiology to the Chicago VMA to the Arizona State VMA and to the Colorado State VMA Radiographic Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the American Animal Hospital Association in New York andPhysiological Basis for Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the Kansas State Unishyversity

The department has had some disshytinguished visitors and lecturers recentshyly They have included Dr David Donshyald of the Mayo Clinic Dr StanleyHarris of Kansas State University andDr David Jenson of the Scripps Instishytution of Oceanography at LaJolla Calshyifornia

Dr Hamlin reports that the laborashytories of the Program Project Biology

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of the Heart opened in the basementof Sisson Hall in April The project isgoing full blast Publications

Characteristics of Respiration in Healthy Dogs Anesthetized with Sodshyium Pentobarbital Am J Vet Res Hamlin R L and Smith C R

Detection and Quantitation of Subshyclinical Congestive Heart Failure in Dogs Hamlin R L Smith C R and Ross J N The Physiologist Vol 9 No 3 August 1966 Page 197

Contractility of the Normal Canine Ventricle Hamlin R L Smith C R

Clinical Relevancy of Heart Rate of the Dog Hamlin R L Olsen Inger Smith C R Boggs Steve

Pathology

Dr Richard A Griesemer spoke onthe Problems of Animal Bites as partof the postgraduate course for physishycians on Practical Management of Inshyfectious Disease on March 29 in the College of Medicine

Dr Griesemer presented a talk on Germfree Animals on March 28 at the meeting of the Franklin County Medical Technologists Association

On April 3 Dr Griesemer consulted with officials of the State Diagnostic Laboratory Dept of Agriculture Hashywaii on infectious disease problems in animals

In April Dr Richard A Griesemer participated in the 57th Annual Meetshying Japan Pathology Society in Nagoshyya Japan At Inuama Japan he preshysented a talk on Virus Disease Reshysearch Utilizing Germfree Animals InTokyo Dr Griesemer participated in the Panel on Germfree Life Research and also participated in the US-JapanCooperative Science Program Seminar on Gnotobiotic Technology at whichtime he spoke on Large Germfree Anishymal Methods While in Japan Dr Griesemer visited the following scienshytific institutions as consultant in germshyfree technology The National Instituteof Primatology Keio University Collegeof Medicine National Institute of Anishymal Health National Institute of Inshyfectious Diseases National Institute of

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Public Health National Institute of fectious Enteritis in the Germfree Cat Health the University of Nagoya Col- On April 1 Dr Rohovsky was apshylege of Medicine Aichi Cancer Center pointed Assistant Professor in the De-Institute of Physical and Chemical Re- partment of Veterinary Pathology search and the University of Tokyo Dr John Long presented a paper at

Dr Clarence R Cole represented the the Annual Meeting of the Internation-College of Veterinary Medicine at the al Academy of Pathology in Washing-special meeting of the American Asso- ton DC entitled Neuronal Degenershyciation of Veterinary Medical Colleges ation and Glial Response in Experishyheld in Washington DC The deans of mental Polioencephalomyelitis Dr the nations veterinary colleges were John Shadduck presented a paper on given detailed information concerning Pathogenic Properties of a Porcine the Veterinary Medical Education Act Adenovirus of 1966 and plans for organizing and Swine Polioencephalitis Virus in expediting the program designed to Germfree Pigs Viral Isolation Immunshyprovide federal funds to match state oreaction and Serum Electrophoresis appropriations by L Kasza J Holman and A Koest-

Dr Michael W Rohovsky presented ner appeared in Am J Vet Res two lectures to the Department of Vet- March 1967 erinary Pathology at Texas AampM Uni- Dr Charles C Capen presented aversity on March 10 He spoke on The paper entitled The Influence of Vita-Germfree Animal as a Research Tool min D on Calcium Metabolism and the and Feline Infectious Enteritis in the Parathyroid Glands of Cattle at aGermfree Cat symposium on The Nutritional and

Dr Rohovsky received his PhD de- Endocrine Influences on Calcium Metashygree on March 16 1967 The title of his bolism held in conjunction with the dissertation is Experimental Feline In- 51st Annual Meeting of the Federation

More and more Ohio veterinarians prefer to use the following products There must be a reason

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Happiness in life comes from within not from without

This must be the answer because in the absence of material things upon which we place such great emphasis for our happiness these people seem to have learned that satisfaction comes from doing things with their hands personalpride family loyalty things which canshynot be bought We marvel at the art and craftsmanship these people possess for which they receive very little pay and we Americans acquire the beautiful things they make and regard them as prized possessions There is a certain inner-satisfaction as well as relaxation which comes from creating and doing things with ones hands which money cannot buy All you need to do is look among your friends and neighbors and I feel sure you will find the greatest genuine happiness among those who have pride in their home have learned the pleasure of creating something in which they have invested part of themshyselves and are always ready to serve their fellow man when needed Of one thing I am certain and that is - Money and material things in themselves do not bring happiness In fact the least happy persons I have known are those who placed a dollar sign on everything they did and never experienced the genuine happiness which comes from doing something out of the goodness of their heart While we in this country can be most proud of the material things made available for our pleasure and enjoyment through modern techshynology the big challenge of the future is to use these products in their true perspective and not allow this environshyment of opulence to destroy our initiashy

tive our sense of values and our motishyvation to develop our inherent talents to their fullest potential

Since this will be my last Across the Deans Desk contribution to the Specshyulum may I say that I haye really enshyjoyed the opportunity to share with you information about the college and on occasion my p e r s o n a l views and thoughts No Dean has ever had more loyal support from the alumni than I have had and this has been a real inshyspiration and stimulus to me I am sorshyry that all our building hopes have not been realized during my term as Dean but at least the ground work has been laid and building of the Veterinary Hosshypital should get underway in the not too distant future Having spent all but twoof my adult years since entering college in 1919 here at the Ohio State Univershysity I have a deep sense of gratitude for the opportunity it has afforded me and I sincerely hope that I have been worthy and lived up to the responsibilishyties entrusted in me I can only say that I have tried to fulfill my obligation with honesty and dignity in the best intershyests of the college and the profession

The most prized possession Mrs Krilland I will always cherish is a storeshyhouse of pleasant memories accumushylated over the years and in which all of you have been a part For this we exshytend to you and all our university asshysociates our sincerest thanks Once we become footloose and free dont be surshyprised if the telephone rings and someshyone says this is your Old Dean just passing through

SincerelyWalter R Krill Dean

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AVMA Awards Banquet By TOM HICKEY Vet Med Ill

The Ohio State Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation held its annual Awards Banquet at the Nationwide Inn on May 19 1967 Approximately 200 students faculty members and guests were present The banquet service was excellent this yearand this helped make the evening even more enjoyable After a welcoming adshydress by president Mike Youshak the Master of Ceremonies was introduced Frank Pipers did a magnificent job of joke-telling introducing and stalling for time until the band arrived (were there really that many people killed in the Civil War) After the banquet and presentation of awards the tables were pulled back and everyone had a fine time dancing to the music of The Inshysiders courtesy of the W A Butler Company The awards presented duringthe banquet were as follows

A V M A AWARDS President-elect Tom Hickey presented

the junior keys and senior certificates to those students who qualified The reshyquirement for the award is that the junshyiors must have attended at least half of the meetings for each of the three years they have been in school and the seniors must have attended at least half of the meetings for each of their four years

The junior keys were presented to Fred Adams Ron Banning Al Bryant Tom Burke Larry Dickey Tom Hickey Joan Hurley Dick Knight George Nyshyland Jim Popp Don Sanders Judy Sauerbrei Larry Sautter W a r r e n Snead Joe Starcher Walt Threlfall Mike Wansky and Dan Wolf

The senior certificates were presented to Mike Andrews John Bishop Richshyard Dailey Dale Duerr Dottie Lowry Dick Gurevitz Bob Henry Dean Kraus James Lonz Bruce Marhefka Dan Paulo Bill Reynolds Bill Sayle Dick Whipps Bill Yakley and Mike Youshak

SPRING 1967

BORDEN AWARD The Borden Award consists of a $300

check a certificate and a plaque This award goes to the member of the senior class who attained the highest scholasshytic record in all veterinary studies prior to the fourth year Mr J Hoffshyman Erb vice-president in charge of production for the Borden Company presented the award to Flo Rutledge This is the first time that the award has been given to a member of the fairshyer sex Flo is a member of AVMA and Phi Zeta She was also editor of the Chiron this year

SPECULUM AWARDS Dr Yeary presented certificates to

the following staff members of The Speculum for their fine efforts ShirleyClevenson Joan Hurley Frank PipersDon Sanders Bill Sayle Tom Schiefer Dick Segall George Sikora Victoria Voith Mike Wansky Mike Youshak Victoria Voith and Tom Schiefer were named next years co-editors

OMEGA TAU SIGMA AWARD The Omega Tau Sigma Award is preshy

sented to the senior student showingthe most promise as a clinician and outshystanding practitioner A committee of the clinical staff chooses the recipient ofthis award based on character scholarshyship leadership and adeptness and inshyterest in performing his clinical dutiesDon Heagren presented this yearsaward to John Mehling John is a memshyber of the AVMA and will be assigned to the ambulatory section at Cornell University John is married and his wife who is also a veterinarian will accompany him to Cornell

NATIONAL WOMENS AUXILIARY AWARD

The National Womens Auxiliary Award was presented by Mrs Keith Wearly to the senior who has contribshyuted most to advance the prestige of veterinary medicine both here at the University and to the general publicThis year the $75 award was presentedto Bill Yakley Bill is a member of OTSand has been very active in the AVMAHe is currently vice-president and served last year as chairman of the live-surgery exhibit committee Bill is marshyried and will be going to Washington

State University where he will be an instructor in the Dept of Small AnimalMedicine and Surgery

DEANS AWARD Dr Roger Yeary presented this years

Deans Award to Dotty Lowry and JoeWagner This award is presented for outstanding service to The Speculum Joe and Dotty are currently co-editorsof this publication

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ALPHA PSI ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP The Alpha Psi Alumni Scholarship is

awarded to a junior student who exhibshyits a promising potential and who has proven his scholastic ability Dr Mc-Kissick presented the $100 award to George Nyland George is married anda member of Alpha Psi fraternity

PHI ZETA AWARDS Memberships in the Delta Chapter of

Phi Zeta the veterinary medical honorsociety were extended to those personsin the upper ten percent of the juniorclass and those in the upper twenty-fivepercent of the senior class who had notpreviously been extended the honor FloRutledge announced the following recipshyients

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1968 James A PoppLarry E DickeyMichael Wolland Douglas CoatneyWilliam Sternecker Thomas J Burke Carl Alden

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1967 E Clinton LowryDorothea Freitas LowryEugene BreznockRichard DaileyH Rodney FergusonLance 0 Lollini James Lonz Bill B ReynoldsRichard Soldner

CHIRON AWARDS

The Chiron is the official yearbook ofthe College of Veterinary Medicine andthe chiron awards are presented to those people who have given of their time and service so that the yearbookmay be published This is the first yearfor the Chiron and thus the first yearfor this award Editor Flo Rutledge preshysented the following people with certifishycates Pete Cyrog Stan EichelbergerBob Fritz Sally Ginaven Tom HickeyRon Jennings Larry Miley Marty Putshykonen Bill Reynolds Don Sanders JudySauerbrei Bill Sayle George Sikora Joe Starcher Bob Temple Victoria L Voith Mike Wansky Dick WhippsMike Youshak Dr Loeb Advisor Don Sanders was named next years editor

STUDENT AUXILIARY AWARD

Mrs Carole Kraus presented the Stushydent Auxiliary Award of $50 to Tom Hickey This award is given to a juniorwho in order to be eligible must be married must be a voting member of the Student AVMA his wife must be a voting member of the Auxiliary andhe must have at least a 25 accum through winter quarter of the junioryear The winners name is drawn fromthose who are eligible Tom is a memshyber of Alpha Psi and will be presidentof the AVMA next year

SPRING 1967

ALPHA PSI JUNIOR AWARD The recipient of the Alpha Psi Junior

award is chosen by the faculty on the basis of scholarship interest personalshyity and character Alpha Psi presidentJim Syler presented the plaque to a deshyserving but much surprised Tom BurkeTom is a member of AVMA and is vice-president of Alpha Psi

PFIZER AWARD The Pfizer award is a check for $400

and is given to a junior student who shows outstanding scholarship and leadshyership A representative of the Pfizer Company presented Doug Coatney withthis award Doug is a member of AVMA and OTS he is also in Phi Zeta

Beggars are chooserswhen its

Keep your patients alert and lively Support gestation and lactation Aid convalescence-all with supplemental Pet-Tabs so palatable that dogs and cats take them eagerly right from the hand or crumbled into the ration Bottles of 50 and 500 tablets Consult package label for dosage information Also available Pet-Tabs Jr for toy breeds and cats

MASSENGILLVeterinary Division The S E Masseng i l l Company Br is to l Tennessee

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MERCK AWARDS A SPECIAL TRIBUTEEngraved Merck Manuals are given to

two senior students selected by the facshyulty who have shown a fine personalshyity scholarship and leadership Dean Krill announced that this years award winners are Bill Sayle and John Mehshyling Both Bill and John are members of AVMA and OTS Bill will enter small animal practice in Amherst Ohio and John will be going to Cornell

TO DEAN KRILL In recognition for his many years of

devotion to the students of the Collegeof Veterinary Medicine Dean Krill waspresented a plaque from the Student Chapter of the AVMA Dick Whipps presented the plaque and Dean Krill then gave a stirring speech This was his last Awards Banquet as dean of ourcollege and we all shall miss him

ALUMNI NEWS1934

bullDR B E KNISELY was promoted inFebruary to Assistant Veterinarian in Charge of the Animal Health DivisionARS Puerto Rico Before going to Puerto Rico he served as a field vetshyerinarian in Ohio working on tubercushylosis brucellosis scabies scrapie vesishycular exanthema hog cholera and anshythrax outbreaks He became leader of the tuberculosis project for the state in1960 and he entered the Twelfth Vetshyerinary Administrator Development Program in 1965

1942 DR V GLENN CRAGO was elected

a regional director of the American Hospital Association in March with the

SPRING 1967

responsibility of representing the 1500members in the Midwestern states Afshyter graduating Dr Crago was a large animal practitioner in Kinsman Ohio He entered a small animal practice withhis brother Dr Charles Crago of YoungSitown in 1946 Presently he opshyerates the Crago Veterinary Clinic withanother brother Dr W H Crago in Youngstown Ohio

1964 DR WILLIAM HUNTER will receive

his Master of Science degree this Juneand is teaching nuclear medicine in theCollege of Medicine at the Ohio State University His thesis research involvesusing radio isotopes to study bone saltmetabolism

FACULTY NEWSBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

Anatomy

Doctor Walter G Venzke met with the members of the American Commitshytee on Veterinary Anatomical Nomenshyclature at Columbia Missouri on April3 and 4 He also attended the Annual American Association of Anatomists Meeting in Kansas City Missouri on April 5 and 6

Doctor Venzke has recently been apshypointed a member of a committee on Veterinary embryological nomenclaturethat will collaborate with a similar group working in human anatomy

Surgery

Doctor Richard L Rudy attended anOrthopedic Seminar given by the Greatshyer St Louis Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation in April 1967 He also attendeda conference on Surgical Treatment ofPatent Ductus Arteriosus given by theAAHA in New York during March

Doctor Rudy reports a full house at the Orthopedic Workshop held March 17 and 18

Doctor Rudy will be present at the meeting of the Board of Regents of theAmerican College of Veterinary Surshygeons in Boston on June 5

Doctor Leroy E Johnson presented a program on Unsouncfraess in the Horse to the Groveport Ohio 4-H Club He alshyso spoke to the Cleveland Hunt Club concerning Lameness in the Hunter The Riyerridge Riding Club of Columshybus Ohio heard Doctor Johnson speak about The Horse and Destiny

Doctor Bruce Heath received a Masshyters Degree in Veterinary Surgery atSpring Commencement June 13 at TheOhio State University The title of thethesis is Physiologic Effects and Safeshyty of Preanesthetics Halothane andMethoxyflurane in Horses

bull Physiology AndPharmacology

Dr Charles R Smith conducted a seminar on Veterinary Education andResearch at Purdue University on Apshyril 6 and 7 While he was at Purdue Dr Smith visited the faculty and facilitiesAt the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri on May22 and 23 he visited faculty and facilishyties in the Departments of PhysiologyPharmacology Biochemistry and Radshyiobiology Dr Smith conducted a semshyinar Ascites in the Dog at the annualmeeting of the American Animal Hosshypital Association in New York on March16 and 17 He also attended the Springmeeting of the Council on Research AVMA in Chicago on March 13 and 14

Dr Caroline Gall will receive her MSc degree in June in Veterinary Physiology The title of her thesis is Systemic Arterial Right Ventricular and Pulmonary Artery Pressures in the Horse

Dr James N Ross will receive his MSc degree in June His thesis title is Patent Ductus Arteriosus in the Dog Clinical and Physiologic Feashytures Dr Ross will join the faculty ofthe College of Medicine at Baylor Unishyversity July 1 1967

Dr Balbir Singh Paul will receive his PhD degree in June The title of his dissertation is A Study of the Pharmacodynamics of Dihydroquinishydine in the Canine Dr Paul will reshyturn to India as Professor of Pharmashycology Hissar India

Dr Roger Yeary joined the departshymental faculty April 1 1967 as an Asshysociate Professor He will head a new program in Veterinary Toxicology andparticipate in the departmental proshygrams in Pharmacology

On February 16 1967 Dr Yeary disshycussed the subject of Pharmacologic

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Principles for Therapy of Acute Poisshyoning before the Columbus Academyof Veterinary Medicine He representedthe Ohio Veterinary Medical Associashytion at the Ohio Rural Health Council on April 5 1967 and reviewed the curshyrent status of epizootic diseases for that group At the Ohio Valley Sectionof the Institute of Food Technologistsmeeting in Columbus April 7 1967 DrYeary discussed Consumer Food Proshytection Dr Yeary was invited to preshysent a paper on Evaluation of Acute and Subacute Toxicity Studies in Newshyborn Animals at the Symposium on Perinatal Pharmacology and Toxicologyin Montreal Canada April 13 1967

A recent publication by Doctor Yearyis Cooperative Extension Service Bulshyletin 474 Medicated Feed Additives shyA Handbook on the Safe Use of Feed Additives and Drugs for Livestock andPoultry 1st Revision March 1967

Dr David Knight of the University of Pennsylvania visited with members of the faculty in April He presented two seminars on his research in heart worm disease in dogs

Dr Barry Prynn spoke in Ashland Ohio to the North Central VMA about small animal anesthesia

Dr Robert Hamlin has had a full schedule of lectures They have inshycluded Clinical Cardiology to the New Jersey VMA Sinus Arrhythmia in the Dog at the University of Califorshynia (Davis) Computer Analysis of the ECG at the Schering Corporation in New Jersey Clinical Cardiology to the Chicago VMA to the Arizona State VMA and to the Colorado State VMA Radiographic Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the American Animal Hospital Association in New York andPhysiological Basis for Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the Kansas State Unishyversity

The department has had some disshytinguished visitors and lecturers recentshyly They have included Dr David Donshyald of the Mayo Clinic Dr StanleyHarris of Kansas State University andDr David Jenson of the Scripps Instishytution of Oceanography at LaJolla Calshyifornia

Dr Hamlin reports that the laborashytories of the Program Project Biology

SPRING 1967

of the Heart opened in the basementof Sisson Hall in April The project isgoing full blast Publications

Characteristics of Respiration in Healthy Dogs Anesthetized with Sodshyium Pentobarbital Am J Vet Res Hamlin R L and Smith C R

Detection and Quantitation of Subshyclinical Congestive Heart Failure in Dogs Hamlin R L Smith C R and Ross J N The Physiologist Vol 9 No 3 August 1966 Page 197

Contractility of the Normal Canine Ventricle Hamlin R L Smith C R

Clinical Relevancy of Heart Rate of the Dog Hamlin R L Olsen Inger Smith C R Boggs Steve

Pathology

Dr Richard A Griesemer spoke onthe Problems of Animal Bites as partof the postgraduate course for physishycians on Practical Management of Inshyfectious Disease on March 29 in the College of Medicine

Dr Griesemer presented a talk on Germfree Animals on March 28 at the meeting of the Franklin County Medical Technologists Association

On April 3 Dr Griesemer consulted with officials of the State Diagnostic Laboratory Dept of Agriculture Hashywaii on infectious disease problems in animals

In April Dr Richard A Griesemer participated in the 57th Annual Meetshying Japan Pathology Society in Nagoshyya Japan At Inuama Japan he preshysented a talk on Virus Disease Reshysearch Utilizing Germfree Animals InTokyo Dr Griesemer participated in the Panel on Germfree Life Research and also participated in the US-JapanCooperative Science Program Seminar on Gnotobiotic Technology at whichtime he spoke on Large Germfree Anishymal Methods While in Japan Dr Griesemer visited the following scienshytific institutions as consultant in germshyfree technology The National Instituteof Primatology Keio University Collegeof Medicine National Institute of Anishymal Health National Institute of Inshyfectious Diseases National Institute of

11

Public Health National Institute of fectious Enteritis in the Germfree Cat Health the University of Nagoya Col- On April 1 Dr Rohovsky was apshylege of Medicine Aichi Cancer Center pointed Assistant Professor in the De-Institute of Physical and Chemical Re- partment of Veterinary Pathology search and the University of Tokyo Dr John Long presented a paper at

Dr Clarence R Cole represented the the Annual Meeting of the Internation-College of Veterinary Medicine at the al Academy of Pathology in Washing-special meeting of the American Asso- ton DC entitled Neuronal Degenershyciation of Veterinary Medical Colleges ation and Glial Response in Experishyheld in Washington DC The deans of mental Polioencephalomyelitis Dr the nations veterinary colleges were John Shadduck presented a paper on given detailed information concerning Pathogenic Properties of a Porcine the Veterinary Medical Education Act Adenovirus of 1966 and plans for organizing and Swine Polioencephalitis Virus in expediting the program designed to Germfree Pigs Viral Isolation Immunshyprovide federal funds to match state oreaction and Serum Electrophoresis appropriations by L Kasza J Holman and A Koest-

Dr Michael W Rohovsky presented ner appeared in Am J Vet Res two lectures to the Department of Vet- March 1967 erinary Pathology at Texas AampM Uni- Dr Charles C Capen presented aversity on March 10 He spoke on The paper entitled The Influence of Vita-Germfree Animal as a Research Tool min D on Calcium Metabolism and the and Feline Infectious Enteritis in the Parathyroid Glands of Cattle at aGermfree Cat symposium on The Nutritional and

Dr Rohovsky received his PhD de- Endocrine Influences on Calcium Metashygree on March 16 1967 The title of his bolism held in conjunction with the dissertation is Experimental Feline In- 51st Annual Meeting of the Federation

More and more Ohio veterinarians prefer to use the following products There must be a reason

AMO-PLEXIN FECOBAL ELIXIR

VERDISAN PECTROMYCIN

TRIDIUM-ETTES THI-COBAL LIQUID

SULTROPINNEOMYCIN ROXIVON INJ

LIBRADOL (Veterinary) Ask Your Local Representative About Them

AMCO DRUG PRODUCTS CD INCPO BOX 207 NORTH OLMSTED OHIO

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AVMA Awards Banquet By TOM HICKEY Vet Med Ill

The Ohio State Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation held its annual Awards Banquet at the Nationwide Inn on May 19 1967 Approximately 200 students faculty members and guests were present The banquet service was excellent this yearand this helped make the evening even more enjoyable After a welcoming adshydress by president Mike Youshak the Master of Ceremonies was introduced Frank Pipers did a magnificent job of joke-telling introducing and stalling for time until the band arrived (were there really that many people killed in the Civil War) After the banquet and presentation of awards the tables were pulled back and everyone had a fine time dancing to the music of The Inshysiders courtesy of the W A Butler Company The awards presented duringthe banquet were as follows

A V M A AWARDS President-elect Tom Hickey presented

the junior keys and senior certificates to those students who qualified The reshyquirement for the award is that the junshyiors must have attended at least half of the meetings for each of the three years they have been in school and the seniors must have attended at least half of the meetings for each of their four years

The junior keys were presented to Fred Adams Ron Banning Al Bryant Tom Burke Larry Dickey Tom Hickey Joan Hurley Dick Knight George Nyshyland Jim Popp Don Sanders Judy Sauerbrei Larry Sautter W a r r e n Snead Joe Starcher Walt Threlfall Mike Wansky and Dan Wolf

The senior certificates were presented to Mike Andrews John Bishop Richshyard Dailey Dale Duerr Dottie Lowry Dick Gurevitz Bob Henry Dean Kraus James Lonz Bruce Marhefka Dan Paulo Bill Reynolds Bill Sayle Dick Whipps Bill Yakley and Mike Youshak

SPRING 1967

BORDEN AWARD The Borden Award consists of a $300

check a certificate and a plaque This award goes to the member of the senior class who attained the highest scholasshytic record in all veterinary studies prior to the fourth year Mr J Hoffshyman Erb vice-president in charge of production for the Borden Company presented the award to Flo Rutledge This is the first time that the award has been given to a member of the fairshyer sex Flo is a member of AVMA and Phi Zeta She was also editor of the Chiron this year

SPECULUM AWARDS Dr Yeary presented certificates to

the following staff members of The Speculum for their fine efforts ShirleyClevenson Joan Hurley Frank PipersDon Sanders Bill Sayle Tom Schiefer Dick Segall George Sikora Victoria Voith Mike Wansky Mike Youshak Victoria Voith and Tom Schiefer were named next years co-editors

OMEGA TAU SIGMA AWARD The Omega Tau Sigma Award is preshy

sented to the senior student showingthe most promise as a clinician and outshystanding practitioner A committee of the clinical staff chooses the recipient ofthis award based on character scholarshyship leadership and adeptness and inshyterest in performing his clinical dutiesDon Heagren presented this yearsaward to John Mehling John is a memshyber of the AVMA and will be assigned to the ambulatory section at Cornell University John is married and his wife who is also a veterinarian will accompany him to Cornell

NATIONAL WOMENS AUXILIARY AWARD

The National Womens Auxiliary Award was presented by Mrs Keith Wearly to the senior who has contribshyuted most to advance the prestige of veterinary medicine both here at the University and to the general publicThis year the $75 award was presentedto Bill Yakley Bill is a member of OTSand has been very active in the AVMAHe is currently vice-president and served last year as chairman of the live-surgery exhibit committee Bill is marshyried and will be going to Washington

State University where he will be an instructor in the Dept of Small AnimalMedicine and Surgery

DEANS AWARD Dr Roger Yeary presented this years

Deans Award to Dotty Lowry and JoeWagner This award is presented for outstanding service to The Speculum Joe and Dotty are currently co-editorsof this publication

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ALPHA PSI ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP The Alpha Psi Alumni Scholarship is

awarded to a junior student who exhibshyits a promising potential and who has proven his scholastic ability Dr Mc-Kissick presented the $100 award to George Nyland George is married anda member of Alpha Psi fraternity

PHI ZETA AWARDS Memberships in the Delta Chapter of

Phi Zeta the veterinary medical honorsociety were extended to those personsin the upper ten percent of the juniorclass and those in the upper twenty-fivepercent of the senior class who had notpreviously been extended the honor FloRutledge announced the following recipshyients

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1968 James A PoppLarry E DickeyMichael Wolland Douglas CoatneyWilliam Sternecker Thomas J Burke Carl Alden

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1967 E Clinton LowryDorothea Freitas LowryEugene BreznockRichard DaileyH Rodney FergusonLance 0 Lollini James Lonz Bill B ReynoldsRichard Soldner

CHIRON AWARDS

The Chiron is the official yearbook ofthe College of Veterinary Medicine andthe chiron awards are presented to those people who have given of their time and service so that the yearbookmay be published This is the first yearfor the Chiron and thus the first yearfor this award Editor Flo Rutledge preshysented the following people with certifishycates Pete Cyrog Stan EichelbergerBob Fritz Sally Ginaven Tom HickeyRon Jennings Larry Miley Marty Putshykonen Bill Reynolds Don Sanders JudySauerbrei Bill Sayle George Sikora Joe Starcher Bob Temple Victoria L Voith Mike Wansky Dick WhippsMike Youshak Dr Loeb Advisor Don Sanders was named next years editor

STUDENT AUXILIARY AWARD

Mrs Carole Kraus presented the Stushydent Auxiliary Award of $50 to Tom Hickey This award is given to a juniorwho in order to be eligible must be married must be a voting member of the Student AVMA his wife must be a voting member of the Auxiliary andhe must have at least a 25 accum through winter quarter of the junioryear The winners name is drawn fromthose who are eligible Tom is a memshyber of Alpha Psi and will be presidentof the AVMA next year

SPRING 1967

ALPHA PSI JUNIOR AWARD The recipient of the Alpha Psi Junior

award is chosen by the faculty on the basis of scholarship interest personalshyity and character Alpha Psi presidentJim Syler presented the plaque to a deshyserving but much surprised Tom BurkeTom is a member of AVMA and is vice-president of Alpha Psi

PFIZER AWARD The Pfizer award is a check for $400

and is given to a junior student who shows outstanding scholarship and leadshyership A representative of the Pfizer Company presented Doug Coatney withthis award Doug is a member of AVMA and OTS he is also in Phi Zeta

Beggars are chooserswhen its

Keep your patients alert and lively Support gestation and lactation Aid convalescence-all with supplemental Pet-Tabs so palatable that dogs and cats take them eagerly right from the hand or crumbled into the ration Bottles of 50 and 500 tablets Consult package label for dosage information Also available Pet-Tabs Jr for toy breeds and cats

MASSENGILLVeterinary Division The S E Masseng i l l Company Br is to l Tennessee

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MERCK AWARDS A SPECIAL TRIBUTEEngraved Merck Manuals are given to

two senior students selected by the facshyulty who have shown a fine personalshyity scholarship and leadership Dean Krill announced that this years award winners are Bill Sayle and John Mehshyling Both Bill and John are members of AVMA and OTS Bill will enter small animal practice in Amherst Ohio and John will be going to Cornell

TO DEAN KRILL In recognition for his many years of

devotion to the students of the Collegeof Veterinary Medicine Dean Krill waspresented a plaque from the Student Chapter of the AVMA Dick Whipps presented the plaque and Dean Krill then gave a stirring speech This was his last Awards Banquet as dean of ourcollege and we all shall miss him

ALUMNI NEWS1934

bullDR B E KNISELY was promoted inFebruary to Assistant Veterinarian in Charge of the Animal Health DivisionARS Puerto Rico Before going to Puerto Rico he served as a field vetshyerinarian in Ohio working on tubercushylosis brucellosis scabies scrapie vesishycular exanthema hog cholera and anshythrax outbreaks He became leader of the tuberculosis project for the state in1960 and he entered the Twelfth Vetshyerinary Administrator Development Program in 1965

1942 DR V GLENN CRAGO was elected

a regional director of the American Hospital Association in March with the

SPRING 1967

responsibility of representing the 1500members in the Midwestern states Afshyter graduating Dr Crago was a large animal practitioner in Kinsman Ohio He entered a small animal practice withhis brother Dr Charles Crago of YoungSitown in 1946 Presently he opshyerates the Crago Veterinary Clinic withanother brother Dr W H Crago in Youngstown Ohio

1964 DR WILLIAM HUNTER will receive

his Master of Science degree this Juneand is teaching nuclear medicine in theCollege of Medicine at the Ohio State University His thesis research involvesusing radio isotopes to study bone saltmetabolism

FACULTY NEWSBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

Anatomy

Doctor Walter G Venzke met with the members of the American Commitshytee on Veterinary Anatomical Nomenshyclature at Columbia Missouri on April3 and 4 He also attended the Annual American Association of Anatomists Meeting in Kansas City Missouri on April 5 and 6

Doctor Venzke has recently been apshypointed a member of a committee on Veterinary embryological nomenclaturethat will collaborate with a similar group working in human anatomy

Surgery

Doctor Richard L Rudy attended anOrthopedic Seminar given by the Greatshyer St Louis Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation in April 1967 He also attendeda conference on Surgical Treatment ofPatent Ductus Arteriosus given by theAAHA in New York during March

Doctor Rudy reports a full house at the Orthopedic Workshop held March 17 and 18

Doctor Rudy will be present at the meeting of the Board of Regents of theAmerican College of Veterinary Surshygeons in Boston on June 5

Doctor Leroy E Johnson presented a program on Unsouncfraess in the Horse to the Groveport Ohio 4-H Club He alshyso spoke to the Cleveland Hunt Club concerning Lameness in the Hunter The Riyerridge Riding Club of Columshybus Ohio heard Doctor Johnson speak about The Horse and Destiny

Doctor Bruce Heath received a Masshyters Degree in Veterinary Surgery atSpring Commencement June 13 at TheOhio State University The title of thethesis is Physiologic Effects and Safeshyty of Preanesthetics Halothane andMethoxyflurane in Horses

bull Physiology AndPharmacology

Dr Charles R Smith conducted a seminar on Veterinary Education andResearch at Purdue University on Apshyril 6 and 7 While he was at Purdue Dr Smith visited the faculty and facilitiesAt the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri on May22 and 23 he visited faculty and facilishyties in the Departments of PhysiologyPharmacology Biochemistry and Radshyiobiology Dr Smith conducted a semshyinar Ascites in the Dog at the annualmeeting of the American Animal Hosshypital Association in New York on March16 and 17 He also attended the Springmeeting of the Council on Research AVMA in Chicago on March 13 and 14

Dr Caroline Gall will receive her MSc degree in June in Veterinary Physiology The title of her thesis is Systemic Arterial Right Ventricular and Pulmonary Artery Pressures in the Horse

Dr James N Ross will receive his MSc degree in June His thesis title is Patent Ductus Arteriosus in the Dog Clinical and Physiologic Feashytures Dr Ross will join the faculty ofthe College of Medicine at Baylor Unishyversity July 1 1967

Dr Balbir Singh Paul will receive his PhD degree in June The title of his dissertation is A Study of the Pharmacodynamics of Dihydroquinishydine in the Canine Dr Paul will reshyturn to India as Professor of Pharmashycology Hissar India

Dr Roger Yeary joined the departshymental faculty April 1 1967 as an Asshysociate Professor He will head a new program in Veterinary Toxicology andparticipate in the departmental proshygrams in Pharmacology

On February 16 1967 Dr Yeary disshycussed the subject of Pharmacologic

THE SPECULUM 10

Principles for Therapy of Acute Poisshyoning before the Columbus Academyof Veterinary Medicine He representedthe Ohio Veterinary Medical Associashytion at the Ohio Rural Health Council on April 5 1967 and reviewed the curshyrent status of epizootic diseases for that group At the Ohio Valley Sectionof the Institute of Food Technologistsmeeting in Columbus April 7 1967 DrYeary discussed Consumer Food Proshytection Dr Yeary was invited to preshysent a paper on Evaluation of Acute and Subacute Toxicity Studies in Newshyborn Animals at the Symposium on Perinatal Pharmacology and Toxicologyin Montreal Canada April 13 1967

A recent publication by Doctor Yearyis Cooperative Extension Service Bulshyletin 474 Medicated Feed Additives shyA Handbook on the Safe Use of Feed Additives and Drugs for Livestock andPoultry 1st Revision March 1967

Dr David Knight of the University of Pennsylvania visited with members of the faculty in April He presented two seminars on his research in heart worm disease in dogs

Dr Barry Prynn spoke in Ashland Ohio to the North Central VMA about small animal anesthesia

Dr Robert Hamlin has had a full schedule of lectures They have inshycluded Clinical Cardiology to the New Jersey VMA Sinus Arrhythmia in the Dog at the University of Califorshynia (Davis) Computer Analysis of the ECG at the Schering Corporation in New Jersey Clinical Cardiology to the Chicago VMA to the Arizona State VMA and to the Colorado State VMA Radiographic Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the American Animal Hospital Association in New York andPhysiological Basis for Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the Kansas State Unishyversity

The department has had some disshytinguished visitors and lecturers recentshyly They have included Dr David Donshyald of the Mayo Clinic Dr StanleyHarris of Kansas State University andDr David Jenson of the Scripps Instishytution of Oceanography at LaJolla Calshyifornia

Dr Hamlin reports that the laborashytories of the Program Project Biology

SPRING 1967

of the Heart opened in the basementof Sisson Hall in April The project isgoing full blast Publications

Characteristics of Respiration in Healthy Dogs Anesthetized with Sodshyium Pentobarbital Am J Vet Res Hamlin R L and Smith C R

Detection and Quantitation of Subshyclinical Congestive Heart Failure in Dogs Hamlin R L Smith C R and Ross J N The Physiologist Vol 9 No 3 August 1966 Page 197

Contractility of the Normal Canine Ventricle Hamlin R L Smith C R

Clinical Relevancy of Heart Rate of the Dog Hamlin R L Olsen Inger Smith C R Boggs Steve

Pathology

Dr Richard A Griesemer spoke onthe Problems of Animal Bites as partof the postgraduate course for physishycians on Practical Management of Inshyfectious Disease on March 29 in the College of Medicine

Dr Griesemer presented a talk on Germfree Animals on March 28 at the meeting of the Franklin County Medical Technologists Association

On April 3 Dr Griesemer consulted with officials of the State Diagnostic Laboratory Dept of Agriculture Hashywaii on infectious disease problems in animals

In April Dr Richard A Griesemer participated in the 57th Annual Meetshying Japan Pathology Society in Nagoshyya Japan At Inuama Japan he preshysented a talk on Virus Disease Reshysearch Utilizing Germfree Animals InTokyo Dr Griesemer participated in the Panel on Germfree Life Research and also participated in the US-JapanCooperative Science Program Seminar on Gnotobiotic Technology at whichtime he spoke on Large Germfree Anishymal Methods While in Japan Dr Griesemer visited the following scienshytific institutions as consultant in germshyfree technology The National Instituteof Primatology Keio University Collegeof Medicine National Institute of Anishymal Health National Institute of Inshyfectious Diseases National Institute of

11

Public Health National Institute of fectious Enteritis in the Germfree Cat Health the University of Nagoya Col- On April 1 Dr Rohovsky was apshylege of Medicine Aichi Cancer Center pointed Assistant Professor in the De-Institute of Physical and Chemical Re- partment of Veterinary Pathology search and the University of Tokyo Dr John Long presented a paper at

Dr Clarence R Cole represented the the Annual Meeting of the Internation-College of Veterinary Medicine at the al Academy of Pathology in Washing-special meeting of the American Asso- ton DC entitled Neuronal Degenershyciation of Veterinary Medical Colleges ation and Glial Response in Experishyheld in Washington DC The deans of mental Polioencephalomyelitis Dr the nations veterinary colleges were John Shadduck presented a paper on given detailed information concerning Pathogenic Properties of a Porcine the Veterinary Medical Education Act Adenovirus of 1966 and plans for organizing and Swine Polioencephalitis Virus in expediting the program designed to Germfree Pigs Viral Isolation Immunshyprovide federal funds to match state oreaction and Serum Electrophoresis appropriations by L Kasza J Holman and A Koest-

Dr Michael W Rohovsky presented ner appeared in Am J Vet Res two lectures to the Department of Vet- March 1967 erinary Pathology at Texas AampM Uni- Dr Charles C Capen presented aversity on March 10 He spoke on The paper entitled The Influence of Vita-Germfree Animal as a Research Tool min D on Calcium Metabolism and the and Feline Infectious Enteritis in the Parathyroid Glands of Cattle at aGermfree Cat symposium on The Nutritional and

Dr Rohovsky received his PhD de- Endocrine Influences on Calcium Metashygree on March 16 1967 The title of his bolism held in conjunction with the dissertation is Experimental Feline In- 51st Annual Meeting of the Federation

More and more Ohio veterinarians prefer to use the following products There must be a reason

AMO-PLEXIN FECOBAL ELIXIR

VERDISAN PECTROMYCIN

TRIDIUM-ETTES THI-COBAL LIQUID

SULTROPINNEOMYCIN ROXIVON INJ

LIBRADOL (Veterinary) Ask Your Local Representative About Them

AMCO DRUG PRODUCTS CD INCPO BOX 207 NORTH OLMSTED OHIO

12 THE SPECULUM

OMEGA TAU SIGMA AWARD The Omega Tau Sigma Award is preshy

sented to the senior student showingthe most promise as a clinician and outshystanding practitioner A committee of the clinical staff chooses the recipient ofthis award based on character scholarshyship leadership and adeptness and inshyterest in performing his clinical dutiesDon Heagren presented this yearsaward to John Mehling John is a memshyber of the AVMA and will be assigned to the ambulatory section at Cornell University John is married and his wife who is also a veterinarian will accompany him to Cornell

NATIONAL WOMENS AUXILIARY AWARD

The National Womens Auxiliary Award was presented by Mrs Keith Wearly to the senior who has contribshyuted most to advance the prestige of veterinary medicine both here at the University and to the general publicThis year the $75 award was presentedto Bill Yakley Bill is a member of OTSand has been very active in the AVMAHe is currently vice-president and served last year as chairman of the live-surgery exhibit committee Bill is marshyried and will be going to Washington

State University where he will be an instructor in the Dept of Small AnimalMedicine and Surgery

DEANS AWARD Dr Roger Yeary presented this years

Deans Award to Dotty Lowry and JoeWagner This award is presented for outstanding service to The Speculum Joe and Dotty are currently co-editorsof this publication

THE SPECULUM

ALPHA PSI ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP The Alpha Psi Alumni Scholarship is

awarded to a junior student who exhibshyits a promising potential and who has proven his scholastic ability Dr Mc-Kissick presented the $100 award to George Nyland George is married anda member of Alpha Psi fraternity

PHI ZETA AWARDS Memberships in the Delta Chapter of

Phi Zeta the veterinary medical honorsociety were extended to those personsin the upper ten percent of the juniorclass and those in the upper twenty-fivepercent of the senior class who had notpreviously been extended the honor FloRutledge announced the following recipshyients

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1968 James A PoppLarry E DickeyMichael Wolland Douglas CoatneyWilliam Sternecker Thomas J Burke Carl Alden

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1967 E Clinton LowryDorothea Freitas LowryEugene BreznockRichard DaileyH Rodney FergusonLance 0 Lollini James Lonz Bill B ReynoldsRichard Soldner

CHIRON AWARDS

The Chiron is the official yearbook ofthe College of Veterinary Medicine andthe chiron awards are presented to those people who have given of their time and service so that the yearbookmay be published This is the first yearfor the Chiron and thus the first yearfor this award Editor Flo Rutledge preshysented the following people with certifishycates Pete Cyrog Stan EichelbergerBob Fritz Sally Ginaven Tom HickeyRon Jennings Larry Miley Marty Putshykonen Bill Reynolds Don Sanders JudySauerbrei Bill Sayle George Sikora Joe Starcher Bob Temple Victoria L Voith Mike Wansky Dick WhippsMike Youshak Dr Loeb Advisor Don Sanders was named next years editor

STUDENT AUXILIARY AWARD

Mrs Carole Kraus presented the Stushydent Auxiliary Award of $50 to Tom Hickey This award is given to a juniorwho in order to be eligible must be married must be a voting member of the Student AVMA his wife must be a voting member of the Auxiliary andhe must have at least a 25 accum through winter quarter of the junioryear The winners name is drawn fromthose who are eligible Tom is a memshyber of Alpha Psi and will be presidentof the AVMA next year

SPRING 1967

ALPHA PSI JUNIOR AWARD The recipient of the Alpha Psi Junior

award is chosen by the faculty on the basis of scholarship interest personalshyity and character Alpha Psi presidentJim Syler presented the plaque to a deshyserving but much surprised Tom BurkeTom is a member of AVMA and is vice-president of Alpha Psi

PFIZER AWARD The Pfizer award is a check for $400

and is given to a junior student who shows outstanding scholarship and leadshyership A representative of the Pfizer Company presented Doug Coatney withthis award Doug is a member of AVMA and OTS he is also in Phi Zeta

Beggars are chooserswhen its

Keep your patients alert and lively Support gestation and lactation Aid convalescence-all with supplemental Pet-Tabs so palatable that dogs and cats take them eagerly right from the hand or crumbled into the ration Bottles of 50 and 500 tablets Consult package label for dosage information Also available Pet-Tabs Jr for toy breeds and cats

MASSENGILLVeterinary Division The S E Masseng i l l Company Br is to l Tennessee

THE SPECULUM

MERCK AWARDS A SPECIAL TRIBUTEEngraved Merck Manuals are given to

two senior students selected by the facshyulty who have shown a fine personalshyity scholarship and leadership Dean Krill announced that this years award winners are Bill Sayle and John Mehshyling Both Bill and John are members of AVMA and OTS Bill will enter small animal practice in Amherst Ohio and John will be going to Cornell

TO DEAN KRILL In recognition for his many years of

devotion to the students of the Collegeof Veterinary Medicine Dean Krill waspresented a plaque from the Student Chapter of the AVMA Dick Whipps presented the plaque and Dean Krill then gave a stirring speech This was his last Awards Banquet as dean of ourcollege and we all shall miss him

ALUMNI NEWS1934

bullDR B E KNISELY was promoted inFebruary to Assistant Veterinarian in Charge of the Animal Health DivisionARS Puerto Rico Before going to Puerto Rico he served as a field vetshyerinarian in Ohio working on tubercushylosis brucellosis scabies scrapie vesishycular exanthema hog cholera and anshythrax outbreaks He became leader of the tuberculosis project for the state in1960 and he entered the Twelfth Vetshyerinary Administrator Development Program in 1965

1942 DR V GLENN CRAGO was elected

a regional director of the American Hospital Association in March with the

SPRING 1967

responsibility of representing the 1500members in the Midwestern states Afshyter graduating Dr Crago was a large animal practitioner in Kinsman Ohio He entered a small animal practice withhis brother Dr Charles Crago of YoungSitown in 1946 Presently he opshyerates the Crago Veterinary Clinic withanother brother Dr W H Crago in Youngstown Ohio

1964 DR WILLIAM HUNTER will receive

his Master of Science degree this Juneand is teaching nuclear medicine in theCollege of Medicine at the Ohio State University His thesis research involvesusing radio isotopes to study bone saltmetabolism

FACULTY NEWSBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

Anatomy

Doctor Walter G Venzke met with the members of the American Commitshytee on Veterinary Anatomical Nomenshyclature at Columbia Missouri on April3 and 4 He also attended the Annual American Association of Anatomists Meeting in Kansas City Missouri on April 5 and 6

Doctor Venzke has recently been apshypointed a member of a committee on Veterinary embryological nomenclaturethat will collaborate with a similar group working in human anatomy

Surgery

Doctor Richard L Rudy attended anOrthopedic Seminar given by the Greatshyer St Louis Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation in April 1967 He also attendeda conference on Surgical Treatment ofPatent Ductus Arteriosus given by theAAHA in New York during March

Doctor Rudy reports a full house at the Orthopedic Workshop held March 17 and 18

Doctor Rudy will be present at the meeting of the Board of Regents of theAmerican College of Veterinary Surshygeons in Boston on June 5

Doctor Leroy E Johnson presented a program on Unsouncfraess in the Horse to the Groveport Ohio 4-H Club He alshyso spoke to the Cleveland Hunt Club concerning Lameness in the Hunter The Riyerridge Riding Club of Columshybus Ohio heard Doctor Johnson speak about The Horse and Destiny

Doctor Bruce Heath received a Masshyters Degree in Veterinary Surgery atSpring Commencement June 13 at TheOhio State University The title of thethesis is Physiologic Effects and Safeshyty of Preanesthetics Halothane andMethoxyflurane in Horses

bull Physiology AndPharmacology

Dr Charles R Smith conducted a seminar on Veterinary Education andResearch at Purdue University on Apshyril 6 and 7 While he was at Purdue Dr Smith visited the faculty and facilitiesAt the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri on May22 and 23 he visited faculty and facilishyties in the Departments of PhysiologyPharmacology Biochemistry and Radshyiobiology Dr Smith conducted a semshyinar Ascites in the Dog at the annualmeeting of the American Animal Hosshypital Association in New York on March16 and 17 He also attended the Springmeeting of the Council on Research AVMA in Chicago on March 13 and 14

Dr Caroline Gall will receive her MSc degree in June in Veterinary Physiology The title of her thesis is Systemic Arterial Right Ventricular and Pulmonary Artery Pressures in the Horse

Dr James N Ross will receive his MSc degree in June His thesis title is Patent Ductus Arteriosus in the Dog Clinical and Physiologic Feashytures Dr Ross will join the faculty ofthe College of Medicine at Baylor Unishyversity July 1 1967

Dr Balbir Singh Paul will receive his PhD degree in June The title of his dissertation is A Study of the Pharmacodynamics of Dihydroquinishydine in the Canine Dr Paul will reshyturn to India as Professor of Pharmashycology Hissar India

Dr Roger Yeary joined the departshymental faculty April 1 1967 as an Asshysociate Professor He will head a new program in Veterinary Toxicology andparticipate in the departmental proshygrams in Pharmacology

On February 16 1967 Dr Yeary disshycussed the subject of Pharmacologic

THE SPECULUM 10

Principles for Therapy of Acute Poisshyoning before the Columbus Academyof Veterinary Medicine He representedthe Ohio Veterinary Medical Associashytion at the Ohio Rural Health Council on April 5 1967 and reviewed the curshyrent status of epizootic diseases for that group At the Ohio Valley Sectionof the Institute of Food Technologistsmeeting in Columbus April 7 1967 DrYeary discussed Consumer Food Proshytection Dr Yeary was invited to preshysent a paper on Evaluation of Acute and Subacute Toxicity Studies in Newshyborn Animals at the Symposium on Perinatal Pharmacology and Toxicologyin Montreal Canada April 13 1967

A recent publication by Doctor Yearyis Cooperative Extension Service Bulshyletin 474 Medicated Feed Additives shyA Handbook on the Safe Use of Feed Additives and Drugs for Livestock andPoultry 1st Revision March 1967

Dr David Knight of the University of Pennsylvania visited with members of the faculty in April He presented two seminars on his research in heart worm disease in dogs

Dr Barry Prynn spoke in Ashland Ohio to the North Central VMA about small animal anesthesia

Dr Robert Hamlin has had a full schedule of lectures They have inshycluded Clinical Cardiology to the New Jersey VMA Sinus Arrhythmia in the Dog at the University of Califorshynia (Davis) Computer Analysis of the ECG at the Schering Corporation in New Jersey Clinical Cardiology to the Chicago VMA to the Arizona State VMA and to the Colorado State VMA Radiographic Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the American Animal Hospital Association in New York andPhysiological Basis for Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the Kansas State Unishyversity

The department has had some disshytinguished visitors and lecturers recentshyly They have included Dr David Donshyald of the Mayo Clinic Dr StanleyHarris of Kansas State University andDr David Jenson of the Scripps Instishytution of Oceanography at LaJolla Calshyifornia

Dr Hamlin reports that the laborashytories of the Program Project Biology

SPRING 1967

of the Heart opened in the basementof Sisson Hall in April The project isgoing full blast Publications

Characteristics of Respiration in Healthy Dogs Anesthetized with Sodshyium Pentobarbital Am J Vet Res Hamlin R L and Smith C R

Detection and Quantitation of Subshyclinical Congestive Heart Failure in Dogs Hamlin R L Smith C R and Ross J N The Physiologist Vol 9 No 3 August 1966 Page 197

Contractility of the Normal Canine Ventricle Hamlin R L Smith C R

Clinical Relevancy of Heart Rate of the Dog Hamlin R L Olsen Inger Smith C R Boggs Steve

Pathology

Dr Richard A Griesemer spoke onthe Problems of Animal Bites as partof the postgraduate course for physishycians on Practical Management of Inshyfectious Disease on March 29 in the College of Medicine

Dr Griesemer presented a talk on Germfree Animals on March 28 at the meeting of the Franklin County Medical Technologists Association

On April 3 Dr Griesemer consulted with officials of the State Diagnostic Laboratory Dept of Agriculture Hashywaii on infectious disease problems in animals

In April Dr Richard A Griesemer participated in the 57th Annual Meetshying Japan Pathology Society in Nagoshyya Japan At Inuama Japan he preshysented a talk on Virus Disease Reshysearch Utilizing Germfree Animals InTokyo Dr Griesemer participated in the Panel on Germfree Life Research and also participated in the US-JapanCooperative Science Program Seminar on Gnotobiotic Technology at whichtime he spoke on Large Germfree Anishymal Methods While in Japan Dr Griesemer visited the following scienshytific institutions as consultant in germshyfree technology The National Instituteof Primatology Keio University Collegeof Medicine National Institute of Anishymal Health National Institute of Inshyfectious Diseases National Institute of

11

Public Health National Institute of fectious Enteritis in the Germfree Cat Health the University of Nagoya Col- On April 1 Dr Rohovsky was apshylege of Medicine Aichi Cancer Center pointed Assistant Professor in the De-Institute of Physical and Chemical Re- partment of Veterinary Pathology search and the University of Tokyo Dr John Long presented a paper at

Dr Clarence R Cole represented the the Annual Meeting of the Internation-College of Veterinary Medicine at the al Academy of Pathology in Washing-special meeting of the American Asso- ton DC entitled Neuronal Degenershyciation of Veterinary Medical Colleges ation and Glial Response in Experishyheld in Washington DC The deans of mental Polioencephalomyelitis Dr the nations veterinary colleges were John Shadduck presented a paper on given detailed information concerning Pathogenic Properties of a Porcine the Veterinary Medical Education Act Adenovirus of 1966 and plans for organizing and Swine Polioencephalitis Virus in expediting the program designed to Germfree Pigs Viral Isolation Immunshyprovide federal funds to match state oreaction and Serum Electrophoresis appropriations by L Kasza J Holman and A Koest-

Dr Michael W Rohovsky presented ner appeared in Am J Vet Res two lectures to the Department of Vet- March 1967 erinary Pathology at Texas AampM Uni- Dr Charles C Capen presented aversity on March 10 He spoke on The paper entitled The Influence of Vita-Germfree Animal as a Research Tool min D on Calcium Metabolism and the and Feline Infectious Enteritis in the Parathyroid Glands of Cattle at aGermfree Cat symposium on The Nutritional and

Dr Rohovsky received his PhD de- Endocrine Influences on Calcium Metashygree on March 16 1967 The title of his bolism held in conjunction with the dissertation is Experimental Feline In- 51st Annual Meeting of the Federation

More and more Ohio veterinarians prefer to use the following products There must be a reason

AMO-PLEXIN FECOBAL ELIXIR

VERDISAN PECTROMYCIN

TRIDIUM-ETTES THI-COBAL LIQUID

SULTROPINNEOMYCIN ROXIVON INJ

LIBRADOL (Veterinary) Ask Your Local Representative About Them

AMCO DRUG PRODUCTS CD INCPO BOX 207 NORTH OLMSTED OHIO

12 THE SPECULUM

ALPHA PSI ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP The Alpha Psi Alumni Scholarship is

awarded to a junior student who exhibshyits a promising potential and who has proven his scholastic ability Dr Mc-Kissick presented the $100 award to George Nyland George is married anda member of Alpha Psi fraternity

PHI ZETA AWARDS Memberships in the Delta Chapter of

Phi Zeta the veterinary medical honorsociety were extended to those personsin the upper ten percent of the juniorclass and those in the upper twenty-fivepercent of the senior class who had notpreviously been extended the honor FloRutledge announced the following recipshyients

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1968 James A PoppLarry E DickeyMichael Wolland Douglas CoatneyWilliam Sternecker Thomas J Burke Carl Alden

STUDENTS GRADUATING 1967 E Clinton LowryDorothea Freitas LowryEugene BreznockRichard DaileyH Rodney FergusonLance 0 Lollini James Lonz Bill B ReynoldsRichard Soldner

CHIRON AWARDS

The Chiron is the official yearbook ofthe College of Veterinary Medicine andthe chiron awards are presented to those people who have given of their time and service so that the yearbookmay be published This is the first yearfor the Chiron and thus the first yearfor this award Editor Flo Rutledge preshysented the following people with certifishycates Pete Cyrog Stan EichelbergerBob Fritz Sally Ginaven Tom HickeyRon Jennings Larry Miley Marty Putshykonen Bill Reynolds Don Sanders JudySauerbrei Bill Sayle George Sikora Joe Starcher Bob Temple Victoria L Voith Mike Wansky Dick WhippsMike Youshak Dr Loeb Advisor Don Sanders was named next years editor

STUDENT AUXILIARY AWARD

Mrs Carole Kraus presented the Stushydent Auxiliary Award of $50 to Tom Hickey This award is given to a juniorwho in order to be eligible must be married must be a voting member of the Student AVMA his wife must be a voting member of the Auxiliary andhe must have at least a 25 accum through winter quarter of the junioryear The winners name is drawn fromthose who are eligible Tom is a memshyber of Alpha Psi and will be presidentof the AVMA next year

SPRING 1967

ALPHA PSI JUNIOR AWARD The recipient of the Alpha Psi Junior

award is chosen by the faculty on the basis of scholarship interest personalshyity and character Alpha Psi presidentJim Syler presented the plaque to a deshyserving but much surprised Tom BurkeTom is a member of AVMA and is vice-president of Alpha Psi

PFIZER AWARD The Pfizer award is a check for $400

and is given to a junior student who shows outstanding scholarship and leadshyership A representative of the Pfizer Company presented Doug Coatney withthis award Doug is a member of AVMA and OTS he is also in Phi Zeta

Beggars are chooserswhen its

Keep your patients alert and lively Support gestation and lactation Aid convalescence-all with supplemental Pet-Tabs so palatable that dogs and cats take them eagerly right from the hand or crumbled into the ration Bottles of 50 and 500 tablets Consult package label for dosage information Also available Pet-Tabs Jr for toy breeds and cats

MASSENGILLVeterinary Division The S E Masseng i l l Company Br is to l Tennessee

THE SPECULUM

MERCK AWARDS A SPECIAL TRIBUTEEngraved Merck Manuals are given to

two senior students selected by the facshyulty who have shown a fine personalshyity scholarship and leadership Dean Krill announced that this years award winners are Bill Sayle and John Mehshyling Both Bill and John are members of AVMA and OTS Bill will enter small animal practice in Amherst Ohio and John will be going to Cornell

TO DEAN KRILL In recognition for his many years of

devotion to the students of the Collegeof Veterinary Medicine Dean Krill waspresented a plaque from the Student Chapter of the AVMA Dick Whipps presented the plaque and Dean Krill then gave a stirring speech This was his last Awards Banquet as dean of ourcollege and we all shall miss him

ALUMNI NEWS1934

bullDR B E KNISELY was promoted inFebruary to Assistant Veterinarian in Charge of the Animal Health DivisionARS Puerto Rico Before going to Puerto Rico he served as a field vetshyerinarian in Ohio working on tubercushylosis brucellosis scabies scrapie vesishycular exanthema hog cholera and anshythrax outbreaks He became leader of the tuberculosis project for the state in1960 and he entered the Twelfth Vetshyerinary Administrator Development Program in 1965

1942 DR V GLENN CRAGO was elected

a regional director of the American Hospital Association in March with the

SPRING 1967

responsibility of representing the 1500members in the Midwestern states Afshyter graduating Dr Crago was a large animal practitioner in Kinsman Ohio He entered a small animal practice withhis brother Dr Charles Crago of YoungSitown in 1946 Presently he opshyerates the Crago Veterinary Clinic withanother brother Dr W H Crago in Youngstown Ohio

1964 DR WILLIAM HUNTER will receive

his Master of Science degree this Juneand is teaching nuclear medicine in theCollege of Medicine at the Ohio State University His thesis research involvesusing radio isotopes to study bone saltmetabolism

FACULTY NEWSBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

Anatomy

Doctor Walter G Venzke met with the members of the American Commitshytee on Veterinary Anatomical Nomenshyclature at Columbia Missouri on April3 and 4 He also attended the Annual American Association of Anatomists Meeting in Kansas City Missouri on April 5 and 6

Doctor Venzke has recently been apshypointed a member of a committee on Veterinary embryological nomenclaturethat will collaborate with a similar group working in human anatomy

Surgery

Doctor Richard L Rudy attended anOrthopedic Seminar given by the Greatshyer St Louis Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation in April 1967 He also attendeda conference on Surgical Treatment ofPatent Ductus Arteriosus given by theAAHA in New York during March

Doctor Rudy reports a full house at the Orthopedic Workshop held March 17 and 18

Doctor Rudy will be present at the meeting of the Board of Regents of theAmerican College of Veterinary Surshygeons in Boston on June 5

Doctor Leroy E Johnson presented a program on Unsouncfraess in the Horse to the Groveport Ohio 4-H Club He alshyso spoke to the Cleveland Hunt Club concerning Lameness in the Hunter The Riyerridge Riding Club of Columshybus Ohio heard Doctor Johnson speak about The Horse and Destiny

Doctor Bruce Heath received a Masshyters Degree in Veterinary Surgery atSpring Commencement June 13 at TheOhio State University The title of thethesis is Physiologic Effects and Safeshyty of Preanesthetics Halothane andMethoxyflurane in Horses

bull Physiology AndPharmacology

Dr Charles R Smith conducted a seminar on Veterinary Education andResearch at Purdue University on Apshyril 6 and 7 While he was at Purdue Dr Smith visited the faculty and facilitiesAt the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri on May22 and 23 he visited faculty and facilishyties in the Departments of PhysiologyPharmacology Biochemistry and Radshyiobiology Dr Smith conducted a semshyinar Ascites in the Dog at the annualmeeting of the American Animal Hosshypital Association in New York on March16 and 17 He also attended the Springmeeting of the Council on Research AVMA in Chicago on March 13 and 14

Dr Caroline Gall will receive her MSc degree in June in Veterinary Physiology The title of her thesis is Systemic Arterial Right Ventricular and Pulmonary Artery Pressures in the Horse

Dr James N Ross will receive his MSc degree in June His thesis title is Patent Ductus Arteriosus in the Dog Clinical and Physiologic Feashytures Dr Ross will join the faculty ofthe College of Medicine at Baylor Unishyversity July 1 1967

Dr Balbir Singh Paul will receive his PhD degree in June The title of his dissertation is A Study of the Pharmacodynamics of Dihydroquinishydine in the Canine Dr Paul will reshyturn to India as Professor of Pharmashycology Hissar India

Dr Roger Yeary joined the departshymental faculty April 1 1967 as an Asshysociate Professor He will head a new program in Veterinary Toxicology andparticipate in the departmental proshygrams in Pharmacology

On February 16 1967 Dr Yeary disshycussed the subject of Pharmacologic

THE SPECULUM 10

Principles for Therapy of Acute Poisshyoning before the Columbus Academyof Veterinary Medicine He representedthe Ohio Veterinary Medical Associashytion at the Ohio Rural Health Council on April 5 1967 and reviewed the curshyrent status of epizootic diseases for that group At the Ohio Valley Sectionof the Institute of Food Technologistsmeeting in Columbus April 7 1967 DrYeary discussed Consumer Food Proshytection Dr Yeary was invited to preshysent a paper on Evaluation of Acute and Subacute Toxicity Studies in Newshyborn Animals at the Symposium on Perinatal Pharmacology and Toxicologyin Montreal Canada April 13 1967

A recent publication by Doctor Yearyis Cooperative Extension Service Bulshyletin 474 Medicated Feed Additives shyA Handbook on the Safe Use of Feed Additives and Drugs for Livestock andPoultry 1st Revision March 1967

Dr David Knight of the University of Pennsylvania visited with members of the faculty in April He presented two seminars on his research in heart worm disease in dogs

Dr Barry Prynn spoke in Ashland Ohio to the North Central VMA about small animal anesthesia

Dr Robert Hamlin has had a full schedule of lectures They have inshycluded Clinical Cardiology to the New Jersey VMA Sinus Arrhythmia in the Dog at the University of Califorshynia (Davis) Computer Analysis of the ECG at the Schering Corporation in New Jersey Clinical Cardiology to the Chicago VMA to the Arizona State VMA and to the Colorado State VMA Radiographic Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the American Animal Hospital Association in New York andPhysiological Basis for Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the Kansas State Unishyversity

The department has had some disshytinguished visitors and lecturers recentshyly They have included Dr David Donshyald of the Mayo Clinic Dr StanleyHarris of Kansas State University andDr David Jenson of the Scripps Instishytution of Oceanography at LaJolla Calshyifornia

Dr Hamlin reports that the laborashytories of the Program Project Biology

SPRING 1967

of the Heart opened in the basementof Sisson Hall in April The project isgoing full blast Publications

Characteristics of Respiration in Healthy Dogs Anesthetized with Sodshyium Pentobarbital Am J Vet Res Hamlin R L and Smith C R

Detection and Quantitation of Subshyclinical Congestive Heart Failure in Dogs Hamlin R L Smith C R and Ross J N The Physiologist Vol 9 No 3 August 1966 Page 197

Contractility of the Normal Canine Ventricle Hamlin R L Smith C R

Clinical Relevancy of Heart Rate of the Dog Hamlin R L Olsen Inger Smith C R Boggs Steve

Pathology

Dr Richard A Griesemer spoke onthe Problems of Animal Bites as partof the postgraduate course for physishycians on Practical Management of Inshyfectious Disease on March 29 in the College of Medicine

Dr Griesemer presented a talk on Germfree Animals on March 28 at the meeting of the Franklin County Medical Technologists Association

On April 3 Dr Griesemer consulted with officials of the State Diagnostic Laboratory Dept of Agriculture Hashywaii on infectious disease problems in animals

In April Dr Richard A Griesemer participated in the 57th Annual Meetshying Japan Pathology Society in Nagoshyya Japan At Inuama Japan he preshysented a talk on Virus Disease Reshysearch Utilizing Germfree Animals InTokyo Dr Griesemer participated in the Panel on Germfree Life Research and also participated in the US-JapanCooperative Science Program Seminar on Gnotobiotic Technology at whichtime he spoke on Large Germfree Anishymal Methods While in Japan Dr Griesemer visited the following scienshytific institutions as consultant in germshyfree technology The National Instituteof Primatology Keio University Collegeof Medicine National Institute of Anishymal Health National Institute of Inshyfectious Diseases National Institute of

11

Public Health National Institute of fectious Enteritis in the Germfree Cat Health the University of Nagoya Col- On April 1 Dr Rohovsky was apshylege of Medicine Aichi Cancer Center pointed Assistant Professor in the De-Institute of Physical and Chemical Re- partment of Veterinary Pathology search and the University of Tokyo Dr John Long presented a paper at

Dr Clarence R Cole represented the the Annual Meeting of the Internation-College of Veterinary Medicine at the al Academy of Pathology in Washing-special meeting of the American Asso- ton DC entitled Neuronal Degenershyciation of Veterinary Medical Colleges ation and Glial Response in Experishyheld in Washington DC The deans of mental Polioencephalomyelitis Dr the nations veterinary colleges were John Shadduck presented a paper on given detailed information concerning Pathogenic Properties of a Porcine the Veterinary Medical Education Act Adenovirus of 1966 and plans for organizing and Swine Polioencephalitis Virus in expediting the program designed to Germfree Pigs Viral Isolation Immunshyprovide federal funds to match state oreaction and Serum Electrophoresis appropriations by L Kasza J Holman and A Koest-

Dr Michael W Rohovsky presented ner appeared in Am J Vet Res two lectures to the Department of Vet- March 1967 erinary Pathology at Texas AampM Uni- Dr Charles C Capen presented aversity on March 10 He spoke on The paper entitled The Influence of Vita-Germfree Animal as a Research Tool min D on Calcium Metabolism and the and Feline Infectious Enteritis in the Parathyroid Glands of Cattle at aGermfree Cat symposium on The Nutritional and

Dr Rohovsky received his PhD de- Endocrine Influences on Calcium Metashygree on March 16 1967 The title of his bolism held in conjunction with the dissertation is Experimental Feline In- 51st Annual Meeting of the Federation

More and more Ohio veterinarians prefer to use the following products There must be a reason

AMO-PLEXIN FECOBAL ELIXIR

VERDISAN PECTROMYCIN

TRIDIUM-ETTES THI-COBAL LIQUID

SULTROPINNEOMYCIN ROXIVON INJ

LIBRADOL (Veterinary) Ask Your Local Representative About Them

AMCO DRUG PRODUCTS CD INCPO BOX 207 NORTH OLMSTED OHIO

12 THE SPECULUM

ALPHA PSI JUNIOR AWARD The recipient of the Alpha Psi Junior

award is chosen by the faculty on the basis of scholarship interest personalshyity and character Alpha Psi presidentJim Syler presented the plaque to a deshyserving but much surprised Tom BurkeTom is a member of AVMA and is vice-president of Alpha Psi

PFIZER AWARD The Pfizer award is a check for $400

and is given to a junior student who shows outstanding scholarship and leadshyership A representative of the Pfizer Company presented Doug Coatney withthis award Doug is a member of AVMA and OTS he is also in Phi Zeta

Beggars are chooserswhen its

Keep your patients alert and lively Support gestation and lactation Aid convalescence-all with supplemental Pet-Tabs so palatable that dogs and cats take them eagerly right from the hand or crumbled into the ration Bottles of 50 and 500 tablets Consult package label for dosage information Also available Pet-Tabs Jr for toy breeds and cats

MASSENGILLVeterinary Division The S E Masseng i l l Company Br is to l Tennessee

THE SPECULUM

MERCK AWARDS A SPECIAL TRIBUTEEngraved Merck Manuals are given to

two senior students selected by the facshyulty who have shown a fine personalshyity scholarship and leadership Dean Krill announced that this years award winners are Bill Sayle and John Mehshyling Both Bill and John are members of AVMA and OTS Bill will enter small animal practice in Amherst Ohio and John will be going to Cornell

TO DEAN KRILL In recognition for his many years of

devotion to the students of the Collegeof Veterinary Medicine Dean Krill waspresented a plaque from the Student Chapter of the AVMA Dick Whipps presented the plaque and Dean Krill then gave a stirring speech This was his last Awards Banquet as dean of ourcollege and we all shall miss him

ALUMNI NEWS1934

bullDR B E KNISELY was promoted inFebruary to Assistant Veterinarian in Charge of the Animal Health DivisionARS Puerto Rico Before going to Puerto Rico he served as a field vetshyerinarian in Ohio working on tubercushylosis brucellosis scabies scrapie vesishycular exanthema hog cholera and anshythrax outbreaks He became leader of the tuberculosis project for the state in1960 and he entered the Twelfth Vetshyerinary Administrator Development Program in 1965

1942 DR V GLENN CRAGO was elected

a regional director of the American Hospital Association in March with the

SPRING 1967

responsibility of representing the 1500members in the Midwestern states Afshyter graduating Dr Crago was a large animal practitioner in Kinsman Ohio He entered a small animal practice withhis brother Dr Charles Crago of YoungSitown in 1946 Presently he opshyerates the Crago Veterinary Clinic withanother brother Dr W H Crago in Youngstown Ohio

1964 DR WILLIAM HUNTER will receive

his Master of Science degree this Juneand is teaching nuclear medicine in theCollege of Medicine at the Ohio State University His thesis research involvesusing radio isotopes to study bone saltmetabolism

FACULTY NEWSBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

Anatomy

Doctor Walter G Venzke met with the members of the American Commitshytee on Veterinary Anatomical Nomenshyclature at Columbia Missouri on April3 and 4 He also attended the Annual American Association of Anatomists Meeting in Kansas City Missouri on April 5 and 6

Doctor Venzke has recently been apshypointed a member of a committee on Veterinary embryological nomenclaturethat will collaborate with a similar group working in human anatomy

Surgery

Doctor Richard L Rudy attended anOrthopedic Seminar given by the Greatshyer St Louis Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation in April 1967 He also attendeda conference on Surgical Treatment ofPatent Ductus Arteriosus given by theAAHA in New York during March

Doctor Rudy reports a full house at the Orthopedic Workshop held March 17 and 18

Doctor Rudy will be present at the meeting of the Board of Regents of theAmerican College of Veterinary Surshygeons in Boston on June 5

Doctor Leroy E Johnson presented a program on Unsouncfraess in the Horse to the Groveport Ohio 4-H Club He alshyso spoke to the Cleveland Hunt Club concerning Lameness in the Hunter The Riyerridge Riding Club of Columshybus Ohio heard Doctor Johnson speak about The Horse and Destiny

Doctor Bruce Heath received a Masshyters Degree in Veterinary Surgery atSpring Commencement June 13 at TheOhio State University The title of thethesis is Physiologic Effects and Safeshyty of Preanesthetics Halothane andMethoxyflurane in Horses

bull Physiology AndPharmacology

Dr Charles R Smith conducted a seminar on Veterinary Education andResearch at Purdue University on Apshyril 6 and 7 While he was at Purdue Dr Smith visited the faculty and facilitiesAt the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri on May22 and 23 he visited faculty and facilishyties in the Departments of PhysiologyPharmacology Biochemistry and Radshyiobiology Dr Smith conducted a semshyinar Ascites in the Dog at the annualmeeting of the American Animal Hosshypital Association in New York on March16 and 17 He also attended the Springmeeting of the Council on Research AVMA in Chicago on March 13 and 14

Dr Caroline Gall will receive her MSc degree in June in Veterinary Physiology The title of her thesis is Systemic Arterial Right Ventricular and Pulmonary Artery Pressures in the Horse

Dr James N Ross will receive his MSc degree in June His thesis title is Patent Ductus Arteriosus in the Dog Clinical and Physiologic Feashytures Dr Ross will join the faculty ofthe College of Medicine at Baylor Unishyversity July 1 1967

Dr Balbir Singh Paul will receive his PhD degree in June The title of his dissertation is A Study of the Pharmacodynamics of Dihydroquinishydine in the Canine Dr Paul will reshyturn to India as Professor of Pharmashycology Hissar India

Dr Roger Yeary joined the departshymental faculty April 1 1967 as an Asshysociate Professor He will head a new program in Veterinary Toxicology andparticipate in the departmental proshygrams in Pharmacology

On February 16 1967 Dr Yeary disshycussed the subject of Pharmacologic

THE SPECULUM 10

Principles for Therapy of Acute Poisshyoning before the Columbus Academyof Veterinary Medicine He representedthe Ohio Veterinary Medical Associashytion at the Ohio Rural Health Council on April 5 1967 and reviewed the curshyrent status of epizootic diseases for that group At the Ohio Valley Sectionof the Institute of Food Technologistsmeeting in Columbus April 7 1967 DrYeary discussed Consumer Food Proshytection Dr Yeary was invited to preshysent a paper on Evaluation of Acute and Subacute Toxicity Studies in Newshyborn Animals at the Symposium on Perinatal Pharmacology and Toxicologyin Montreal Canada April 13 1967

A recent publication by Doctor Yearyis Cooperative Extension Service Bulshyletin 474 Medicated Feed Additives shyA Handbook on the Safe Use of Feed Additives and Drugs for Livestock andPoultry 1st Revision March 1967

Dr David Knight of the University of Pennsylvania visited with members of the faculty in April He presented two seminars on his research in heart worm disease in dogs

Dr Barry Prynn spoke in Ashland Ohio to the North Central VMA about small animal anesthesia

Dr Robert Hamlin has had a full schedule of lectures They have inshycluded Clinical Cardiology to the New Jersey VMA Sinus Arrhythmia in the Dog at the University of Califorshynia (Davis) Computer Analysis of the ECG at the Schering Corporation in New Jersey Clinical Cardiology to the Chicago VMA to the Arizona State VMA and to the Colorado State VMA Radiographic Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the American Animal Hospital Association in New York andPhysiological Basis for Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the Kansas State Unishyversity

The department has had some disshytinguished visitors and lecturers recentshyly They have included Dr David Donshyald of the Mayo Clinic Dr StanleyHarris of Kansas State University andDr David Jenson of the Scripps Instishytution of Oceanography at LaJolla Calshyifornia

Dr Hamlin reports that the laborashytories of the Program Project Biology

SPRING 1967

of the Heart opened in the basementof Sisson Hall in April The project isgoing full blast Publications

Characteristics of Respiration in Healthy Dogs Anesthetized with Sodshyium Pentobarbital Am J Vet Res Hamlin R L and Smith C R

Detection and Quantitation of Subshyclinical Congestive Heart Failure in Dogs Hamlin R L Smith C R and Ross J N The Physiologist Vol 9 No 3 August 1966 Page 197

Contractility of the Normal Canine Ventricle Hamlin R L Smith C R

Clinical Relevancy of Heart Rate of the Dog Hamlin R L Olsen Inger Smith C R Boggs Steve

Pathology

Dr Richard A Griesemer spoke onthe Problems of Animal Bites as partof the postgraduate course for physishycians on Practical Management of Inshyfectious Disease on March 29 in the College of Medicine

Dr Griesemer presented a talk on Germfree Animals on March 28 at the meeting of the Franklin County Medical Technologists Association

On April 3 Dr Griesemer consulted with officials of the State Diagnostic Laboratory Dept of Agriculture Hashywaii on infectious disease problems in animals

In April Dr Richard A Griesemer participated in the 57th Annual Meetshying Japan Pathology Society in Nagoshyya Japan At Inuama Japan he preshysented a talk on Virus Disease Reshysearch Utilizing Germfree Animals InTokyo Dr Griesemer participated in the Panel on Germfree Life Research and also participated in the US-JapanCooperative Science Program Seminar on Gnotobiotic Technology at whichtime he spoke on Large Germfree Anishymal Methods While in Japan Dr Griesemer visited the following scienshytific institutions as consultant in germshyfree technology The National Instituteof Primatology Keio University Collegeof Medicine National Institute of Anishymal Health National Institute of Inshyfectious Diseases National Institute of

11

Public Health National Institute of fectious Enteritis in the Germfree Cat Health the University of Nagoya Col- On April 1 Dr Rohovsky was apshylege of Medicine Aichi Cancer Center pointed Assistant Professor in the De-Institute of Physical and Chemical Re- partment of Veterinary Pathology search and the University of Tokyo Dr John Long presented a paper at

Dr Clarence R Cole represented the the Annual Meeting of the Internation-College of Veterinary Medicine at the al Academy of Pathology in Washing-special meeting of the American Asso- ton DC entitled Neuronal Degenershyciation of Veterinary Medical Colleges ation and Glial Response in Experishyheld in Washington DC The deans of mental Polioencephalomyelitis Dr the nations veterinary colleges were John Shadduck presented a paper on given detailed information concerning Pathogenic Properties of a Porcine the Veterinary Medical Education Act Adenovirus of 1966 and plans for organizing and Swine Polioencephalitis Virus in expediting the program designed to Germfree Pigs Viral Isolation Immunshyprovide federal funds to match state oreaction and Serum Electrophoresis appropriations by L Kasza J Holman and A Koest-

Dr Michael W Rohovsky presented ner appeared in Am J Vet Res two lectures to the Department of Vet- March 1967 erinary Pathology at Texas AampM Uni- Dr Charles C Capen presented aversity on March 10 He spoke on The paper entitled The Influence of Vita-Germfree Animal as a Research Tool min D on Calcium Metabolism and the and Feline Infectious Enteritis in the Parathyroid Glands of Cattle at aGermfree Cat symposium on The Nutritional and

Dr Rohovsky received his PhD de- Endocrine Influences on Calcium Metashygree on March 16 1967 The title of his bolism held in conjunction with the dissertation is Experimental Feline In- 51st Annual Meeting of the Federation

More and more Ohio veterinarians prefer to use the following products There must be a reason

AMO-PLEXIN FECOBAL ELIXIR

VERDISAN PECTROMYCIN

TRIDIUM-ETTES THI-COBAL LIQUID

SULTROPINNEOMYCIN ROXIVON INJ

LIBRADOL (Veterinary) Ask Your Local Representative About Them

AMCO DRUG PRODUCTS CD INCPO BOX 207 NORTH OLMSTED OHIO

12 THE SPECULUM

MERCK AWARDS A SPECIAL TRIBUTEEngraved Merck Manuals are given to

two senior students selected by the facshyulty who have shown a fine personalshyity scholarship and leadership Dean Krill announced that this years award winners are Bill Sayle and John Mehshyling Both Bill and John are members of AVMA and OTS Bill will enter small animal practice in Amherst Ohio and John will be going to Cornell

TO DEAN KRILL In recognition for his many years of

devotion to the students of the Collegeof Veterinary Medicine Dean Krill waspresented a plaque from the Student Chapter of the AVMA Dick Whipps presented the plaque and Dean Krill then gave a stirring speech This was his last Awards Banquet as dean of ourcollege and we all shall miss him

ALUMNI NEWS1934

bullDR B E KNISELY was promoted inFebruary to Assistant Veterinarian in Charge of the Animal Health DivisionARS Puerto Rico Before going to Puerto Rico he served as a field vetshyerinarian in Ohio working on tubercushylosis brucellosis scabies scrapie vesishycular exanthema hog cholera and anshythrax outbreaks He became leader of the tuberculosis project for the state in1960 and he entered the Twelfth Vetshyerinary Administrator Development Program in 1965

1942 DR V GLENN CRAGO was elected

a regional director of the American Hospital Association in March with the

SPRING 1967

responsibility of representing the 1500members in the Midwestern states Afshyter graduating Dr Crago was a large animal practitioner in Kinsman Ohio He entered a small animal practice withhis brother Dr Charles Crago of YoungSitown in 1946 Presently he opshyerates the Crago Veterinary Clinic withanother brother Dr W H Crago in Youngstown Ohio

1964 DR WILLIAM HUNTER will receive

his Master of Science degree this Juneand is teaching nuclear medicine in theCollege of Medicine at the Ohio State University His thesis research involvesusing radio isotopes to study bone saltmetabolism

FACULTY NEWSBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

Anatomy

Doctor Walter G Venzke met with the members of the American Commitshytee on Veterinary Anatomical Nomenshyclature at Columbia Missouri on April3 and 4 He also attended the Annual American Association of Anatomists Meeting in Kansas City Missouri on April 5 and 6

Doctor Venzke has recently been apshypointed a member of a committee on Veterinary embryological nomenclaturethat will collaborate with a similar group working in human anatomy

Surgery

Doctor Richard L Rudy attended anOrthopedic Seminar given by the Greatshyer St Louis Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation in April 1967 He also attendeda conference on Surgical Treatment ofPatent Ductus Arteriosus given by theAAHA in New York during March

Doctor Rudy reports a full house at the Orthopedic Workshop held March 17 and 18

Doctor Rudy will be present at the meeting of the Board of Regents of theAmerican College of Veterinary Surshygeons in Boston on June 5

Doctor Leroy E Johnson presented a program on Unsouncfraess in the Horse to the Groveport Ohio 4-H Club He alshyso spoke to the Cleveland Hunt Club concerning Lameness in the Hunter The Riyerridge Riding Club of Columshybus Ohio heard Doctor Johnson speak about The Horse and Destiny

Doctor Bruce Heath received a Masshyters Degree in Veterinary Surgery atSpring Commencement June 13 at TheOhio State University The title of thethesis is Physiologic Effects and Safeshyty of Preanesthetics Halothane andMethoxyflurane in Horses

bull Physiology AndPharmacology

Dr Charles R Smith conducted a seminar on Veterinary Education andResearch at Purdue University on Apshyril 6 and 7 While he was at Purdue Dr Smith visited the faculty and facilitiesAt the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri on May22 and 23 he visited faculty and facilishyties in the Departments of PhysiologyPharmacology Biochemistry and Radshyiobiology Dr Smith conducted a semshyinar Ascites in the Dog at the annualmeeting of the American Animal Hosshypital Association in New York on March16 and 17 He also attended the Springmeeting of the Council on Research AVMA in Chicago on March 13 and 14

Dr Caroline Gall will receive her MSc degree in June in Veterinary Physiology The title of her thesis is Systemic Arterial Right Ventricular and Pulmonary Artery Pressures in the Horse

Dr James N Ross will receive his MSc degree in June His thesis title is Patent Ductus Arteriosus in the Dog Clinical and Physiologic Feashytures Dr Ross will join the faculty ofthe College of Medicine at Baylor Unishyversity July 1 1967

Dr Balbir Singh Paul will receive his PhD degree in June The title of his dissertation is A Study of the Pharmacodynamics of Dihydroquinishydine in the Canine Dr Paul will reshyturn to India as Professor of Pharmashycology Hissar India

Dr Roger Yeary joined the departshymental faculty April 1 1967 as an Asshysociate Professor He will head a new program in Veterinary Toxicology andparticipate in the departmental proshygrams in Pharmacology

On February 16 1967 Dr Yeary disshycussed the subject of Pharmacologic

THE SPECULUM 10

Principles for Therapy of Acute Poisshyoning before the Columbus Academyof Veterinary Medicine He representedthe Ohio Veterinary Medical Associashytion at the Ohio Rural Health Council on April 5 1967 and reviewed the curshyrent status of epizootic diseases for that group At the Ohio Valley Sectionof the Institute of Food Technologistsmeeting in Columbus April 7 1967 DrYeary discussed Consumer Food Proshytection Dr Yeary was invited to preshysent a paper on Evaluation of Acute and Subacute Toxicity Studies in Newshyborn Animals at the Symposium on Perinatal Pharmacology and Toxicologyin Montreal Canada April 13 1967

A recent publication by Doctor Yearyis Cooperative Extension Service Bulshyletin 474 Medicated Feed Additives shyA Handbook on the Safe Use of Feed Additives and Drugs for Livestock andPoultry 1st Revision March 1967

Dr David Knight of the University of Pennsylvania visited with members of the faculty in April He presented two seminars on his research in heart worm disease in dogs

Dr Barry Prynn spoke in Ashland Ohio to the North Central VMA about small animal anesthesia

Dr Robert Hamlin has had a full schedule of lectures They have inshycluded Clinical Cardiology to the New Jersey VMA Sinus Arrhythmia in the Dog at the University of Califorshynia (Davis) Computer Analysis of the ECG at the Schering Corporation in New Jersey Clinical Cardiology to the Chicago VMA to the Arizona State VMA and to the Colorado State VMA Radiographic Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the American Animal Hospital Association in New York andPhysiological Basis for Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the Kansas State Unishyversity

The department has had some disshytinguished visitors and lecturers recentshyly They have included Dr David Donshyald of the Mayo Clinic Dr StanleyHarris of Kansas State University andDr David Jenson of the Scripps Instishytution of Oceanography at LaJolla Calshyifornia

Dr Hamlin reports that the laborashytories of the Program Project Biology

SPRING 1967

of the Heart opened in the basementof Sisson Hall in April The project isgoing full blast Publications

Characteristics of Respiration in Healthy Dogs Anesthetized with Sodshyium Pentobarbital Am J Vet Res Hamlin R L and Smith C R

Detection and Quantitation of Subshyclinical Congestive Heart Failure in Dogs Hamlin R L Smith C R and Ross J N The Physiologist Vol 9 No 3 August 1966 Page 197

Contractility of the Normal Canine Ventricle Hamlin R L Smith C R

Clinical Relevancy of Heart Rate of the Dog Hamlin R L Olsen Inger Smith C R Boggs Steve

Pathology

Dr Richard A Griesemer spoke onthe Problems of Animal Bites as partof the postgraduate course for physishycians on Practical Management of Inshyfectious Disease on March 29 in the College of Medicine

Dr Griesemer presented a talk on Germfree Animals on March 28 at the meeting of the Franklin County Medical Technologists Association

On April 3 Dr Griesemer consulted with officials of the State Diagnostic Laboratory Dept of Agriculture Hashywaii on infectious disease problems in animals

In April Dr Richard A Griesemer participated in the 57th Annual Meetshying Japan Pathology Society in Nagoshyya Japan At Inuama Japan he preshysented a talk on Virus Disease Reshysearch Utilizing Germfree Animals InTokyo Dr Griesemer participated in the Panel on Germfree Life Research and also participated in the US-JapanCooperative Science Program Seminar on Gnotobiotic Technology at whichtime he spoke on Large Germfree Anishymal Methods While in Japan Dr Griesemer visited the following scienshytific institutions as consultant in germshyfree technology The National Instituteof Primatology Keio University Collegeof Medicine National Institute of Anishymal Health National Institute of Inshyfectious Diseases National Institute of

11

Public Health National Institute of fectious Enteritis in the Germfree Cat Health the University of Nagoya Col- On April 1 Dr Rohovsky was apshylege of Medicine Aichi Cancer Center pointed Assistant Professor in the De-Institute of Physical and Chemical Re- partment of Veterinary Pathology search and the University of Tokyo Dr John Long presented a paper at

Dr Clarence R Cole represented the the Annual Meeting of the Internation-College of Veterinary Medicine at the al Academy of Pathology in Washing-special meeting of the American Asso- ton DC entitled Neuronal Degenershyciation of Veterinary Medical Colleges ation and Glial Response in Experishyheld in Washington DC The deans of mental Polioencephalomyelitis Dr the nations veterinary colleges were John Shadduck presented a paper on given detailed information concerning Pathogenic Properties of a Porcine the Veterinary Medical Education Act Adenovirus of 1966 and plans for organizing and Swine Polioencephalitis Virus in expediting the program designed to Germfree Pigs Viral Isolation Immunshyprovide federal funds to match state oreaction and Serum Electrophoresis appropriations by L Kasza J Holman and A Koest-

Dr Michael W Rohovsky presented ner appeared in Am J Vet Res two lectures to the Department of Vet- March 1967 erinary Pathology at Texas AampM Uni- Dr Charles C Capen presented aversity on March 10 He spoke on The paper entitled The Influence of Vita-Germfree Animal as a Research Tool min D on Calcium Metabolism and the and Feline Infectious Enteritis in the Parathyroid Glands of Cattle at aGermfree Cat symposium on The Nutritional and

Dr Rohovsky received his PhD de- Endocrine Influences on Calcium Metashygree on March 16 1967 The title of his bolism held in conjunction with the dissertation is Experimental Feline In- 51st Annual Meeting of the Federation

More and more Ohio veterinarians prefer to use the following products There must be a reason

AMO-PLEXIN FECOBAL ELIXIR

VERDISAN PECTROMYCIN

TRIDIUM-ETTES THI-COBAL LIQUID

SULTROPINNEOMYCIN ROXIVON INJ

LIBRADOL (Veterinary) Ask Your Local Representative About Them

AMCO DRUG PRODUCTS CD INCPO BOX 207 NORTH OLMSTED OHIO

12 THE SPECULUM

FACULTY NEWSBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

Anatomy

Doctor Walter G Venzke met with the members of the American Commitshytee on Veterinary Anatomical Nomenshyclature at Columbia Missouri on April3 and 4 He also attended the Annual American Association of Anatomists Meeting in Kansas City Missouri on April 5 and 6

Doctor Venzke has recently been apshypointed a member of a committee on Veterinary embryological nomenclaturethat will collaborate with a similar group working in human anatomy

Surgery

Doctor Richard L Rudy attended anOrthopedic Seminar given by the Greatshyer St Louis Veterinary Medical Assoshyciation in April 1967 He also attendeda conference on Surgical Treatment ofPatent Ductus Arteriosus given by theAAHA in New York during March

Doctor Rudy reports a full house at the Orthopedic Workshop held March 17 and 18

Doctor Rudy will be present at the meeting of the Board of Regents of theAmerican College of Veterinary Surshygeons in Boston on June 5

Doctor Leroy E Johnson presented a program on Unsouncfraess in the Horse to the Groveport Ohio 4-H Club He alshyso spoke to the Cleveland Hunt Club concerning Lameness in the Hunter The Riyerridge Riding Club of Columshybus Ohio heard Doctor Johnson speak about The Horse and Destiny

Doctor Bruce Heath received a Masshyters Degree in Veterinary Surgery atSpring Commencement June 13 at TheOhio State University The title of thethesis is Physiologic Effects and Safeshyty of Preanesthetics Halothane andMethoxyflurane in Horses

bull Physiology AndPharmacology

Dr Charles R Smith conducted a seminar on Veterinary Education andResearch at Purdue University on Apshyril 6 and 7 While he was at Purdue Dr Smith visited the faculty and facilitiesAt the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri on May22 and 23 he visited faculty and facilishyties in the Departments of PhysiologyPharmacology Biochemistry and Radshyiobiology Dr Smith conducted a semshyinar Ascites in the Dog at the annualmeeting of the American Animal Hosshypital Association in New York on March16 and 17 He also attended the Springmeeting of the Council on Research AVMA in Chicago on March 13 and 14

Dr Caroline Gall will receive her MSc degree in June in Veterinary Physiology The title of her thesis is Systemic Arterial Right Ventricular and Pulmonary Artery Pressures in the Horse

Dr James N Ross will receive his MSc degree in June His thesis title is Patent Ductus Arteriosus in the Dog Clinical and Physiologic Feashytures Dr Ross will join the faculty ofthe College of Medicine at Baylor Unishyversity July 1 1967

Dr Balbir Singh Paul will receive his PhD degree in June The title of his dissertation is A Study of the Pharmacodynamics of Dihydroquinishydine in the Canine Dr Paul will reshyturn to India as Professor of Pharmashycology Hissar India

Dr Roger Yeary joined the departshymental faculty April 1 1967 as an Asshysociate Professor He will head a new program in Veterinary Toxicology andparticipate in the departmental proshygrams in Pharmacology

On February 16 1967 Dr Yeary disshycussed the subject of Pharmacologic

THE SPECULUM 10

Principles for Therapy of Acute Poisshyoning before the Columbus Academyof Veterinary Medicine He representedthe Ohio Veterinary Medical Associashytion at the Ohio Rural Health Council on April 5 1967 and reviewed the curshyrent status of epizootic diseases for that group At the Ohio Valley Sectionof the Institute of Food Technologistsmeeting in Columbus April 7 1967 DrYeary discussed Consumer Food Proshytection Dr Yeary was invited to preshysent a paper on Evaluation of Acute and Subacute Toxicity Studies in Newshyborn Animals at the Symposium on Perinatal Pharmacology and Toxicologyin Montreal Canada April 13 1967

A recent publication by Doctor Yearyis Cooperative Extension Service Bulshyletin 474 Medicated Feed Additives shyA Handbook on the Safe Use of Feed Additives and Drugs for Livestock andPoultry 1st Revision March 1967

Dr David Knight of the University of Pennsylvania visited with members of the faculty in April He presented two seminars on his research in heart worm disease in dogs

Dr Barry Prynn spoke in Ashland Ohio to the North Central VMA about small animal anesthesia

Dr Robert Hamlin has had a full schedule of lectures They have inshycluded Clinical Cardiology to the New Jersey VMA Sinus Arrhythmia in the Dog at the University of Califorshynia (Davis) Computer Analysis of the ECG at the Schering Corporation in New Jersey Clinical Cardiology to the Chicago VMA to the Arizona State VMA and to the Colorado State VMA Radiographic Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the American Animal Hospital Association in New York andPhysiological Basis for Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the Kansas State Unishyversity

The department has had some disshytinguished visitors and lecturers recentshyly They have included Dr David Donshyald of the Mayo Clinic Dr StanleyHarris of Kansas State University andDr David Jenson of the Scripps Instishytution of Oceanography at LaJolla Calshyifornia

Dr Hamlin reports that the laborashytories of the Program Project Biology

SPRING 1967

of the Heart opened in the basementof Sisson Hall in April The project isgoing full blast Publications

Characteristics of Respiration in Healthy Dogs Anesthetized with Sodshyium Pentobarbital Am J Vet Res Hamlin R L and Smith C R

Detection and Quantitation of Subshyclinical Congestive Heart Failure in Dogs Hamlin R L Smith C R and Ross J N The Physiologist Vol 9 No 3 August 1966 Page 197

Contractility of the Normal Canine Ventricle Hamlin R L Smith C R

Clinical Relevancy of Heart Rate of the Dog Hamlin R L Olsen Inger Smith C R Boggs Steve

Pathology

Dr Richard A Griesemer spoke onthe Problems of Animal Bites as partof the postgraduate course for physishycians on Practical Management of Inshyfectious Disease on March 29 in the College of Medicine

Dr Griesemer presented a talk on Germfree Animals on March 28 at the meeting of the Franklin County Medical Technologists Association

On April 3 Dr Griesemer consulted with officials of the State Diagnostic Laboratory Dept of Agriculture Hashywaii on infectious disease problems in animals

In April Dr Richard A Griesemer participated in the 57th Annual Meetshying Japan Pathology Society in Nagoshyya Japan At Inuama Japan he preshysented a talk on Virus Disease Reshysearch Utilizing Germfree Animals InTokyo Dr Griesemer participated in the Panel on Germfree Life Research and also participated in the US-JapanCooperative Science Program Seminar on Gnotobiotic Technology at whichtime he spoke on Large Germfree Anishymal Methods While in Japan Dr Griesemer visited the following scienshytific institutions as consultant in germshyfree technology The National Instituteof Primatology Keio University Collegeof Medicine National Institute of Anishymal Health National Institute of Inshyfectious Diseases National Institute of

11

Public Health National Institute of fectious Enteritis in the Germfree Cat Health the University of Nagoya Col- On April 1 Dr Rohovsky was apshylege of Medicine Aichi Cancer Center pointed Assistant Professor in the De-Institute of Physical and Chemical Re- partment of Veterinary Pathology search and the University of Tokyo Dr John Long presented a paper at

Dr Clarence R Cole represented the the Annual Meeting of the Internation-College of Veterinary Medicine at the al Academy of Pathology in Washing-special meeting of the American Asso- ton DC entitled Neuronal Degenershyciation of Veterinary Medical Colleges ation and Glial Response in Experishyheld in Washington DC The deans of mental Polioencephalomyelitis Dr the nations veterinary colleges were John Shadduck presented a paper on given detailed information concerning Pathogenic Properties of a Porcine the Veterinary Medical Education Act Adenovirus of 1966 and plans for organizing and Swine Polioencephalitis Virus in expediting the program designed to Germfree Pigs Viral Isolation Immunshyprovide federal funds to match state oreaction and Serum Electrophoresis appropriations by L Kasza J Holman and A Koest-

Dr Michael W Rohovsky presented ner appeared in Am J Vet Res two lectures to the Department of Vet- March 1967 erinary Pathology at Texas AampM Uni- Dr Charles C Capen presented aversity on March 10 He spoke on The paper entitled The Influence of Vita-Germfree Animal as a Research Tool min D on Calcium Metabolism and the and Feline Infectious Enteritis in the Parathyroid Glands of Cattle at aGermfree Cat symposium on The Nutritional and

Dr Rohovsky received his PhD de- Endocrine Influences on Calcium Metashygree on March 16 1967 The title of his bolism held in conjunction with the dissertation is Experimental Feline In- 51st Annual Meeting of the Federation

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Principles for Therapy of Acute Poisshyoning before the Columbus Academyof Veterinary Medicine He representedthe Ohio Veterinary Medical Associashytion at the Ohio Rural Health Council on April 5 1967 and reviewed the curshyrent status of epizootic diseases for that group At the Ohio Valley Sectionof the Institute of Food Technologistsmeeting in Columbus April 7 1967 DrYeary discussed Consumer Food Proshytection Dr Yeary was invited to preshysent a paper on Evaluation of Acute and Subacute Toxicity Studies in Newshyborn Animals at the Symposium on Perinatal Pharmacology and Toxicologyin Montreal Canada April 13 1967

A recent publication by Doctor Yearyis Cooperative Extension Service Bulshyletin 474 Medicated Feed Additives shyA Handbook on the Safe Use of Feed Additives and Drugs for Livestock andPoultry 1st Revision March 1967

Dr David Knight of the University of Pennsylvania visited with members of the faculty in April He presented two seminars on his research in heart worm disease in dogs

Dr Barry Prynn spoke in Ashland Ohio to the North Central VMA about small animal anesthesia

Dr Robert Hamlin has had a full schedule of lectures They have inshycluded Clinical Cardiology to the New Jersey VMA Sinus Arrhythmia in the Dog at the University of Califorshynia (Davis) Computer Analysis of the ECG at the Schering Corporation in New Jersey Clinical Cardiology to the Chicago VMA to the Arizona State VMA and to the Colorado State VMA Radiographic Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the American Animal Hospital Association in New York andPhysiological Basis for Diagnosis of Heart Disease to the Kansas State Unishyversity

The department has had some disshytinguished visitors and lecturers recentshyly They have included Dr David Donshyald of the Mayo Clinic Dr StanleyHarris of Kansas State University andDr David Jenson of the Scripps Instishytution of Oceanography at LaJolla Calshyifornia

Dr Hamlin reports that the laborashytories of the Program Project Biology

SPRING 1967

of the Heart opened in the basementof Sisson Hall in April The project isgoing full blast Publications

Characteristics of Respiration in Healthy Dogs Anesthetized with Sodshyium Pentobarbital Am J Vet Res Hamlin R L and Smith C R

Detection and Quantitation of Subshyclinical Congestive Heart Failure in Dogs Hamlin R L Smith C R and Ross J N The Physiologist Vol 9 No 3 August 1966 Page 197

Contractility of the Normal Canine Ventricle Hamlin R L Smith C R

Clinical Relevancy of Heart Rate of the Dog Hamlin R L Olsen Inger Smith C R Boggs Steve

Pathology

Dr Richard A Griesemer spoke onthe Problems of Animal Bites as partof the postgraduate course for physishycians on Practical Management of Inshyfectious Disease on March 29 in the College of Medicine

Dr Griesemer presented a talk on Germfree Animals on March 28 at the meeting of the Franklin County Medical Technologists Association

On April 3 Dr Griesemer consulted with officials of the State Diagnostic Laboratory Dept of Agriculture Hashywaii on infectious disease problems in animals

In April Dr Richard A Griesemer participated in the 57th Annual Meetshying Japan Pathology Society in Nagoshyya Japan At Inuama Japan he preshysented a talk on Virus Disease Reshysearch Utilizing Germfree Animals InTokyo Dr Griesemer participated in the Panel on Germfree Life Research and also participated in the US-JapanCooperative Science Program Seminar on Gnotobiotic Technology at whichtime he spoke on Large Germfree Anishymal Methods While in Japan Dr Griesemer visited the following scienshytific institutions as consultant in germshyfree technology The National Instituteof Primatology Keio University Collegeof Medicine National Institute of Anishymal Health National Institute of Inshyfectious Diseases National Institute of

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Public Health National Institute of fectious Enteritis in the Germfree Cat Health the University of Nagoya Col- On April 1 Dr Rohovsky was apshylege of Medicine Aichi Cancer Center pointed Assistant Professor in the De-Institute of Physical and Chemical Re- partment of Veterinary Pathology search and the University of Tokyo Dr John Long presented a paper at

Dr Clarence R Cole represented the the Annual Meeting of the Internation-College of Veterinary Medicine at the al Academy of Pathology in Washing-special meeting of the American Asso- ton DC entitled Neuronal Degenershyciation of Veterinary Medical Colleges ation and Glial Response in Experishyheld in Washington DC The deans of mental Polioencephalomyelitis Dr the nations veterinary colleges were John Shadduck presented a paper on given detailed information concerning Pathogenic Properties of a Porcine the Veterinary Medical Education Act Adenovirus of 1966 and plans for organizing and Swine Polioencephalitis Virus in expediting the program designed to Germfree Pigs Viral Isolation Immunshyprovide federal funds to match state oreaction and Serum Electrophoresis appropriations by L Kasza J Holman and A Koest-

Dr Michael W Rohovsky presented ner appeared in Am J Vet Res two lectures to the Department of Vet- March 1967 erinary Pathology at Texas AampM Uni- Dr Charles C Capen presented aversity on March 10 He spoke on The paper entitled The Influence of Vita-Germfree Animal as a Research Tool min D on Calcium Metabolism and the and Feline Infectious Enteritis in the Parathyroid Glands of Cattle at aGermfree Cat symposium on The Nutritional and

Dr Rohovsky received his PhD de- Endocrine Influences on Calcium Metashygree on March 16 1967 The title of his bolism held in conjunction with the dissertation is Experimental Feline In- 51st Annual Meeting of the Federation

More and more Ohio veterinarians prefer to use the following products There must be a reason

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LIBRADOL (Veterinary) Ask Your Local Representative About Them

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12 THE SPECULUM

Public Health National Institute of fectious Enteritis in the Germfree Cat Health the University of Nagoya Col- On April 1 Dr Rohovsky was apshylege of Medicine Aichi Cancer Center pointed Assistant Professor in the De-Institute of Physical and Chemical Re- partment of Veterinary Pathology search and the University of Tokyo Dr John Long presented a paper at

Dr Clarence R Cole represented the the Annual Meeting of the Internation-College of Veterinary Medicine at the al Academy of Pathology in Washing-special meeting of the American Asso- ton DC entitled Neuronal Degenershyciation of Veterinary Medical Colleges ation and Glial Response in Experishyheld in Washington DC The deans of mental Polioencephalomyelitis Dr the nations veterinary colleges were John Shadduck presented a paper on given detailed information concerning Pathogenic Properties of a Porcine the Veterinary Medical Education Act Adenovirus of 1966 and plans for organizing and Swine Polioencephalitis Virus in expediting the program designed to Germfree Pigs Viral Isolation Immunshyprovide federal funds to match state oreaction and Serum Electrophoresis appropriations by L Kasza J Holman and A Koest-

Dr Michael W Rohovsky presented ner appeared in Am J Vet Res two lectures to the Department of Vet- March 1967 erinary Pathology at Texas AampM Uni- Dr Charles C Capen presented aversity on March 10 He spoke on The paper entitled The Influence of Vita-Germfree Animal as a Research Tool min D on Calcium Metabolism and the and Feline Infectious Enteritis in the Parathyroid Glands of Cattle at aGermfree Cat symposium on The Nutritional and

Dr Rohovsky received his PhD de- Endocrine Influences on Calcium Metashygree on March 16 1967 The title of his bolism held in conjunction with the dissertation is Experimental Feline In- 51st Annual Meeting of the Federation

More and more Ohio veterinarians prefer to use the following products There must be a reason

AMO-PLEXIN FECOBAL ELIXIR

VERDISAN PECTROMYCIN

TRIDIUM-ETTES THI-COBAL LIQUID

SULTROPINNEOMYCIN ROXIVON INJ

LIBRADOL (Veterinary) Ask Your Local Representative About Them

AMCO DRUG PRODUCTS CD INCPO BOX 207 NORTH OLMSTED OHIO

12 THE SPECULUM

of American Societies for ExperimentalBiology In Chicago

Clarence R Cole Regents Professor of Veterinary Pathology received a grant award from the National Instishytutes of Health Institute of General Medical Sciences in the amount of $669320 for continuation of the expershyimental comparative pathology programinvolving molecular biology chemical pathology and infectious diseases

New dimensions were added to sevshyeral graduate courses by visiting proshyfessors Dr Peter C Kennedy Dr Kenshyneth McEntee and Dr Leon Z Saunshyders Dr Kennedy is Professor of Vetshyerinary Pathology at the University ofCalifornia and is a distinguished teachshyer and productive investigator He is co-author of the monumental two-volshyume textbook entitled Pathology of Domestic Animals Dr Kennedy lecshytured on Mechanisms of Prolonged Gestation in Cattle and Sheep at thehuman-veterinary pathology seminar Dr Kennedy also served as a consultantand participated in the symposium on Diseases of Animals Important to Man Dr Kenneth McEntee is a vetershyinary pathologist who is Chairman of the Department of Large Animal Medishycine Obstetrics and Surgery at CornellUniversity and is President of the American College of Veterinary Pathshyologists Dr McEntees presentation was entitled Ovarian Diseases in the Mare and Bitch

The faculty of the Department of Pathology was invited by the Ohio Medshyical Association and the Society of Pathologists to present a symposium onAnimal Diseases of Importance to Man on Friday May 19 1967 Dr Cole served as moderator and Dr Koestner as consultant and commentashytor Presentations were made by Drs Farrell Capen Koestner and Fowler

Dr John Strandberg of Johns Hopshykins University participated in the graduate teaching program with a lecshyture on Herpes cams Virus in Tissue C u l t u r e An Electronmicroscopic Study

Dr Walter Loeb presented a two-dayshort course on April 22 and 23 enshytitled The Interpretation of Laborashytory Data in Small Animals The

SPRING 1967

course was sponsored by the ColumbusAcademy of Veterinary Medicine and was held held at the Nationwide Inn Columbus It was attended by 40 vetershyinarians coming from such places as Canada New York State Illinois and Kentucky He also presented a teleshylecture on 24 May 1967 entitled Labshyoratory Evaluation of Hepatic Injury and Function This telelecture was sponsored by the Ohio Veterinary Medishycal Association

Dr Arthur Ian Swan Veterinarian will be a graduate teaching associate inthe microbiology laboratory Dr Swan began his association with our laborashytory on 8 May 1967 Mrs E Charlotte Mathena BS MT (ASCP) was enshygaged as a Medical Technologist in theClinical Chemistry Laboratory on 1 May 1967 Mrs Ruth Myers BS MT (ASCP) was engaged as a Medical Technologist to participate half-time principally in the Hematolshyogy Laboratory on 1 May 1967

Mr Robert Stuhlman a third-year student in the College of Veterinary Medicine presently engaged in a reshysearch project on the methodology and interpretation of serum arginase was awarded an AVMA Undergraduate Research Scholarship to continue his studies during the coming summer unshyder the supervision of Dr Loeb Miss Victoria Voith a third-year student inthe College of Veterinary Medicine wasawarded a grant by the Collie Club to pursue a study of thyroid-binding proshyteins in the dog also under the supershyvision of Dr Loeb

Radiology Doctor William J Roenigk has acshy

cepted a new position as the Director of the Division of Veterinary MedicineChildrens Hospital Research Foundashytion Cincinnati Ohio He will also be an Associate Professor of RadiologyCollege of Medicine University of Cinshycinnati

This newly created position embracesdirection of the laboratory animal fashycilities in a new four milliin dollar reshysearch institute

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Training in comparative radiologyand laboratory animal medicine for resshyidents in medicine and veterinary medishycine will be given in cooperation with University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine and Department of Radiology

Dr Roenigk will continue research programs in cancer therapy diagnosticradiology and nuclear medicine He willembark upon new programs of comshyparative research in pediatrics and rashydiology

Preventive Medicine

Dr John H Helwig and Dr D S Kalra have developed a rapid test for the estimation of catalase in milk The test is relatively simple and may be completed in 5-10 minutes Former methods have required several hours A paper describing the details of the test is in the final stages of preparationand will be published in an acceptable scientific journal

Dr Helwig will complete thirty (30) years of teaching on July 1 1967 OnMay 10 1967 the Board of Trustees ofThe Ohio State University presented a 30 Year Service pin during the annualbanquet honoring these occasions

Dr W Michael Hockman has been assigned to the Dept of Vet Prev Medby the U S Meat Inspection Division to assist the Department in teaching ajunior course dealing with food hygieneand to supervise a senior off-campus course in various packing plants near Columbus

Doctor Phillip A Linerode received his PhD degree Autumn Quarter for his studies in equine nutrition usingfistulated ponies He has also developed a Herd Health Management teachingprogram for private herds in the Woosshyter area Doctor Linerodes dissertashytion is entitled Studies on the Synshythesis and Absorption of B Complex Vitamins in the Equine

Doctor Linerodes wife gave birth toa son on January 12 1967 The boy is

named Thomas Edward The Linerode family will be moving to Texas whereDoctor Linerode will be joining the facshyulty of the College of Veterinary Medishycine at Texas A and M in July

Doctor Lloyd D Konyha recentlycompleted two weeks of extensive trainshying in tuberculosis seroloical diagnosshytic techniques at the National Animal Disease Laboratory USDA Ames Iowa He is now applying these tests on equine serum as part of his gradushyate program

Doctor Konyha has recently had pubshylished Avian Tuberculosis - A Review of the Literature published in Tubershyculosis Review USDA No 15 Feb 1967

bull Medicine

Doctor Phillip Murdick reports thatthe Equine Research laboratory has hadits research grant renewed for one yearConsiderable progress has been made on the development of a suitable test forthe detection of drugs in race horses but more work remains to be done In addition the Ohio State Racing pom-mission has granted the Veterinary Clinics request for $37000 from the Ohio Thoroughbred fund for research on a Pre-race test These monies will be used to study the possibilities of autoshymation as a tool for the pre-race test

A telecture entitled Equine and Boshyvine Reproduction Problems was preshysented by Doctors Phillip Murdick Vershynon L Tharp and Keith Wearly to theCentral Illinois VMAH on March 22 1967 These Doctors also presented a short course on Equine Reproduction Veterinarians from eight states attenshyded the short course

Doctor Milton Wyman in co-operashytion with the Florida State VeterinaryMedical Association gave short coursesin Tallahassee Ocala Miami West Palm Beach and Tampa At the Illinois Statemeeting Doctor Wyman presented two papers Glaucoma and Conjunctival Dishyseases in the Dog

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Doctor Wyman has recently pub- Doctor Wyman will be working on a lished a paper entitled Glaucoma Di- new congenital hereditary ocular dishyagnosis and Therapy which appeared in the Auburn Veterinarian sease in the Basenji

VETERINARY COLLEGEACQUIRES BUSINESS OFFICER

Mr G Darwin Cunningham was asshysigned to the College of VeterinaryMedicine on March 14 as Business Ofshyficer

Dr Gordon B Carson Vice President for Business and Finance made the asshysignment as part of a program to proshyvide assistance to the Deans of the mashyjor colleges on campus Although MrCunningham remains a member of DrCarsons staff his primary responsibilishyties are to assist the College of Veterinshyary Medicine in fiscal matters and in administration and business proceduresHe will maintain a full time office in USS Rochester in Korea This three Sisson Hall year tour of duty was completed as Reg-

A native of New London Ohio Mr imental Commander Recruit TrainingCunningham received a bachelors de- Command San Diego California Curshygree from Ohio University summa cum rently a Lieutenant Commander he is laude and was elected to Phi Beta a member of Naval Reserve Officers Kappa Psi Chi and Phi Eta Sigma School 4-5 Columbus

He served as a naval officer in World Prior to joining The Ohio State Uni-War II as a member of Admiral Hal- versity Mr Cunningham was supervisshyseys Third Fleet Staff and was pres- or of Forecasting and Analysis Genershyent at the Japanese surrender on the al Dynamics Corporation San Diego USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay He con- California During his ten years with tinued active in the Naval Reserve as the company he was a member of theExecutive Officer of a Surface Division division which activated the first In-and returned to active duty as Assistant tercontinental Ballistic Missile launch-Operations Officer of the heavy cruiser ing sites in the United States

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1500 West Third Avenue Columbus Ohio Phone 486-9401 Representing Continental Assurance Co Chicago Illinois

SPRING 1967 15

DR THOMAS BIBB Dr Thomas L Bibb received his BS

in Animal Husbandry from Virginia Tech in 1958 He received his DVM from the Ohio State University in 1962While attending OSU Dr Bibb was amember of Omega Tau Sigma and PhiZeta

After graduation Dr Bibb went to Winchester Virginia where he was in a three man mixed practice doing mostly large animal work for three years He then went to Virginia Tech as the clinician for the University and experiment station herds and flocks and was also a member of the Veterinary Science Department He took a two

p EOP L E

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year leave of absence in July 1966 tocome back to OSU and pursue a MSdegree in Veterinary Medicine in thearea of large animal reproduction DrBibb hopes by the Summer of 1968 tohave finished his work and return to Virginia Tech

Dr Bibb is married to the former Susan Bierer of Winchester Virginia They have no children

Dr Bibb is a member of the AVMA the VVMA the OVMA the Amerishycan Society of Animal Science the American Society for the Study ot Breeding Soundness and the Southeastshyern Society for the Study of Breeding Soundness

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THE

COLLEGE

DR JAMES N ROSS JR Dr Ross was born in Akron Ohio

on December 18th 1940 He graduatedfrom Norwalk High School as valedicshytorian in 1958 From 1958 to 1960 he attended DePauw University in Green-castle Indiana where he was a Rector Scholar He graduated in 1960

In the Fall of 1960 Dr Ross entered the College of Agriculture at The OhioState University From February to September of 1961 he was an exchangestudent at Freiberg University Freishyberg iBr Germany

From Fall 1961 to Spring 1965 whenhe received his DVM he attended the

SPRING 1967

College of Veterinary Medicine at TheOhio State University He was a research assistant in the Department ofPhysiology from 1962 to 1965

In the summer of 1963 Dr Ross worked for COSTEP in the US Public Health Service studying a survey of heart disease in horses In the summer of 1964 he also worked for COSTEP but this time he was stationed at the Armed Forces Institute Of Pathology in Washington DC studying patholshyogy in horses hearts

Since 1965 Dr Ross has been in the Graduate School as a NIH cardiologytrainee in the Department on Physioloshygy and Pharmacology at The Ohio State

(Continued on page 36)

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DR ARTHUR I SWAN Dr Arthur I Swan graduated from

the Royal Veterinary College Universishyty of London England in 1953

Following graduation Dr Swan spent four years in mixed general pracshytice He then joined the staff of the Wellcome Foundation Research Laborashytories His work there was connected with anaerobic vaccine production and research His duties included working at a large equine stud that was conshycerned with antisera production Later Dr Swan was transferred to the Well-come Veterinary Research Station for a period of two years At the Research

Station he spent his time working on chemotheraputic testing in large and small animals

In 1963 Dr Swan was appointed to the Animal Pathology Division of theCanadian Federal Department of Agrishyculture Here his duties were in the Veterinary Microbiological Diagnostic and Research Departments

On May 8 1967 Dr Swan joined theDepartment of Veterinary Clinical Pathology of the Ohio State UniversityCollege of Veterinary Medicine He willbe working as a graduate teaching asshysociate in the microbiology laboratory

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1967 GRADUATING SENIORSBy DORTHEA LOWER amp JOSEPH WAGNER Vet Med IV

The seniors who are graduating this June are listed as follows along with degrees activishyties and expected location

Michael R Andrews 3958 Halsey PlaceColumbus OhioFt McPhersonAtlanta GeorgiaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

Donald W- Barton PO Box 365 Hamden OhioHamden-Vinton County

Ohio Mixed Practice AVMA

Richard E Bernard 2233 Arlington AveColumbus OhioDavis-Monthan AFB Tuscon ArizonaUSAF AVMA Alpha Psi

Paul BinnigRD 2 Minerva Ohio 44657Minerva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Alpha Psi

Asst Treas Treas

John Philip BishopMilford Center OhioUniversity of the SouthDept of AgronomyBahia Blanca ArgentinaPurdue Fellow-Internship

in foreign agriculturaldevelopment

AVMA OTS

Robert R Blease Upper Ferry RoadTrenton N JAVMA Alpha Psi

Jack Bonham 5165 Penny PikeSpringfield OhioPublic Health - City of

SpringfieldAVMA

James Booth640 Forest AveZanesville OhioAVMA OTS

Clinic Intern

Gary L Bowman333 S Market Street Loudonville OhioAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

Eugene M Breznock21129 Westwood Rd Fairview Park 26 OhioAVMA Phi Zeta

Melvin Butler Normantown W VaBuckeye Veterinary ClinicPO Box 476 Buckeye ArizonaMixed Practice AVMA

Richard S Dailey614 Jefferson Avenue Charles Town W VaBrentwood Veterinary

HospitalPortsmouth VirginiaSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Clinic Intern

Louis Diluzio 3955 West Sprague RoadNorth Royalton Ohio

44133 Small Animal Practice AVMA

Dale L DuerrRoute 1Bolivar Ohio 44612Quakertown Animal

Hospital40 S 11th St Quakertown Pa 18951Mixed Practice AVMA OTS

Speculum Large AnimalClinician Award

James L Ehler ER Squibb

Pharmaceuticals Animal Products Services New Brunswick New

JerseyAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day

SPRING 1967

Rodney FergusonRD 3East Liverpool OhioTexas A amp M University-Resident Large Animal

Clinics AVMA OTS Phi Zeta

Ronald J Frank 4430 Tindall St NWWashington DC 20016Hancock Air Base Syracuse NY 13225AVMA OTS

Dorothea L Freitas Far Hills NJ 07931360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York N Y 10021Internship - Animal

Medical Center AVMA Secy Phi Zeta

Speculum Co-editorClass Secy

Robert A Fritz Sylvania RoadToledo Ohio654 Stimmelmdash14 Columbus Ohio 43223USAF in MichiganAVMA OTS Treas

Speculum Assoc EditorCheron PhotographyEditor

Joseph Grossi JrMeadowbrook Manor Wintersville OhioMontgomery Animal

Hospital7700 Montgomery RoadCincinnati OhioAVMA OTS Class

Secy

Richard H Gurevitz 269-4 N Chesterfield Rd Columbus Ohio 43209Becher Animal HospitalColumbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Awards

Banquet ChairmanOTS Social ChairmanPledge Master GammaClass Pres Award

Dennis D HardyEden Idaho University of CaliforniaDavis California Internship Large Animal

Med amp Sur AVMA

James Hatfield D D 9

Bethel Ohio 45106AVMA

Thomas D HeadingSo Missouri Ave Wellston OhioPaine Air Field Everett WashingtonUSAF AVMA OTS

Daniel R Helvoigt1014 Fremont St Dover Ohio Rt 3 Shippensburg Pa90 Dairy PracticeAVMA Mark Morris

Fellow

William E Hendricks 100 E 6th Street West Lafayette OhioChicago 111 US ArmyAVMA OTS

Robert Henry R 3 Cardington Ohio 43315Bunker Hill Animal

Hospital6220 Jefferson Rd Ashtabula OhioMixed Practice AVMA Class Pres

Ron Jenne 1125 Eastgate RdToledo OBoston Mass after Nov

1567US ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

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Philip Johnson7580 Shawnee Run Rd Cincinnati Ohio656 Riverview Drive Columbus OhioLaboratory Animal

Medicine OSU AVMA

J Thomas LangRFD 1 Big Prairie OhioQuakertown Ani HospQuakertown PennsylvaniaDairy PracticeAVMA OTS

Donald R Kaeser 4871 Olentangy River RdColumbus Ohio121 Harvey AveDoylestown PaBuckingham Animal

HospitalBuckingham PennsylvaniaMixed mainly large

animal practiceAVMA OTS

Randy Kidd7629 Clark State Road Blacklick OhioMixed Practice AVMA OTS

President

Richard C Koritansky14032 GAR HighwayChardon Ohio 44024Abbotsford Veterinary

Clinic Ltd PO Box 96 Abbotsford British

Columbia CanadaLarge Animal PracticeAVMA Alpha Psi

corresponding secygtStudent Council

Dean Karl Kraus co Mr Charles OttoRoute 2 and 6 East Huron OhioTredyffrin Veterinary

Hospital1476 Lancaster Avenue Paoli Pennsylvania 19301Small Animal Practice AVMA class

rep resentati vetreasurer speakersbureau

Communications Chairman of Live Surgery Exhibit

Daniel E Lafontaine RR 1 Alvada Ohio Persidio of San Francisco San Francisco Calif US ArmyAVMA OTS

John C Leite 812 Clinton St Fremont 01877 Oakland Park Columbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Guy C Lockwood125 E Como Avenue Columbus Ohio Pentagon

Washington DC 20315Washington DCUS ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Small AnimalClinician Award

Lance O Lollini 430 Sinclair Street Yorkville OhioFt Bragg North CarolinaUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Phi

Phi Zeta

James C Lonz Route 3 Norwalk OhioYuma Test Station Yuma Arizona US ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta class treasStudent Council

E Clinton LowryForest Hill West Virginia360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York NY 10021Small Animal Internship shy

Animal Medical Center AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Co-chairman Pre-Vet Day Clinic InternClass Treas

Bruce Marhefka Kensington OhioUniversity of Minnesota shy

College of Vet MedSmall Animal Surgery shy

Instructor AVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day listening booth

SPRING 1967 21

jpoundSl^

MANOREWS 0 BAKTON K BERNARD P BINNIG J BISHOP P S L E S E J B O N H A M J BOOTH G BOWMAN G- BREZNOCK MBUTLER R DAILEY

L OILUZIO D DUERR J EHLER PFERGUSON PFRANK D FREITAS RFRITZ RGUREV1TZ 0 HARDY T HATP1ELD T HEADING

S 0 HELVOIGT W HENOMCKS RHENRY PJENNE OPRATT 8SAYLE J GROSS PJOHNSON 0 KAESER RKiOD RKORITANSKY

VtCE-PRSB PRESIDENT SKt shy TREAS

0 KRAUS 0 LAF0NTA1NE JT L A N G J LEITE

COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

G U3CKW000 L LOLLINI J LONZ C lOWfOT

BMARHEfKA CMCCONNELL MMCGANNON JMEHLING L MILEY RMYERS TOWEN DPAULO J PRATT J PURVI S M R A D C U F F E C R A F L O

WRANNELLS BREYNOLDS F BUTLEDQE GRSfKORA RSOLONER JWAGNER RWHJPPS WYAKLIY MYOUSHAK M ZARNETT J ZINES

Charles T McConnell 707 Main Street Toronto OhioLewis Animal HospitalCincinnati OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Phi Zeta

Exhibit Chairman Pre-Vet Day

Mel McGannon Box 143 Windsor OhioBoyds Animal HospitalGeneva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Clinic Intern

John A Mehling 118 N Wood Street Fremont OhioCollege of Veterinary

Medicine Cornell UniversityIthaca NY Dairy Practice shy

Ambulatory ClinicianAVMA

Larry Miley R i Eaton OhioFt Snelling after Nov

15 1967 Minneapolis MinnUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Pre Vet Day guide

Richard A Myersco Richard D Myers1271 Arbor Lane Marion OhioClover Park Veterinary

HospitalTacoma WashingtonSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Terry Owen4671 Venus Road Uniontown Rd 2 Ohio Letterman General HospSurgical amp Physiological

Research San Francisco Cal US ArmyAVMA OTS Pre-

Vet Day

F Daniel Paulo RD 1 Box 100 North Jackson OhioBeale AFB CaliforniaUSAF AVMA class

representative secretaryOTS Student Council

John Carl Pratt Rankins Creek Road South Point Ohio 45680South Point OhioMixed Mostly Large

Animal PracticeAVMA

Orben Pratt Jr Rt 1 St Paris Ohio 43072Ft McArthur Los Angeles CaliforniaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

intramural sports

James Purvis 525 KensingtonMiddletown Ohio 45042Lynch Animal Hospital3410 Tytus AveMiddletown OSmall Animal PracticeAVMA OTS

Intramural SportsStudent Council

Michael Radcliffe 2587 Mt Holyoke DriveColumbus Ohio 43221San Francisco Calif Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Charles P Raflo 6267 Elbrook Avenue Cincinnati Ohio 45237Aberdeen Proving Ground

MarylandUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Recording SecyChief Censor

William T Rannells RFD 1 New Plymouth Ohio

45654New Plymouth OhioMixed Practice AVMA

Bill B ReynoldsRt 3 Box 510Clarksburg W Va Reynolds Animal HospitalClarksburg W Va Mixed Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Student CouncilPresident Master of Ceremonies at AVMA Awards Banquet

THE SPECULUM 24

Florence Rutledge11815 Davis Court Lakewood Ohio 44107Gasow Veterinary Hospital1521 North Woodward

Ave Birmingham Michigan

48011 Small Animal Practice AVMA Chiron Editor

Sigma Gamma DeltaBorden Award Phi Zeta

William R SayleChagrin Falls Ohio 44042Amherst Animal HospitalAmherst Ohio 44001Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Intramurals PledgeMaster PresidentStudent Council

Speculum Chiron Gamma Award ClassPresident Merck Award

Richard Soldner 3322 Maize Rd Columbus OhioSpringfield Animal

Hospital36 Warder StreetSpringfield OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS PhiZeta Exhibit Chairman

Pre-Vet Day

George R SikoraHinckley OhioRichards amp Gebauer

AFBKansas City MoUSAF Base

Veterinarian AVMA Phi Zeta

Chiron SpeculumAlpha Psi Award

Joseph L Wagner6921 Salem Road Cincinnati Ohio 45030Laboratory Animal

FacilitySchool of Medicine shy

University of NorthCarolina

Chapel Hill NorthCarolina 27514

Laboratory AnimalMedicine - Graduate School

AVMA OTS PhiZeta AVMAFoundation ScholarshipMark Morris Research

Fellow Pre-Vet Day Speculum

Co-editor

Richard D Whipps1447 Thurell Rd Columbus OhioFort Lewis Spokane WashingtonUS ArmyAVMA Chiron

Business Mgr SpeakersBureau Chairman

William Lee Yakely1309 Cross Street Dover OhioWashington State

University - College ofVeterinary Medicine

Resident AVMA Co-Chairman

Publicity amp Picnic Committee ChairmanLive Surgery ExhibitTreasurer Vice-President OTSChairman Awards

AVMA Auxiliary AwardCommittee MarkMorris Research Fellow

Michael Youshak Huntsburg OhioVeterinary PathologyOhio State University1925 Coffey RoadColumbus OhioPost-Doctoral Graduate

ProgramAVMA President

OTS Phi Zeta PhizerAward Alpha PsiAlumni Award Speculum Chiron Pre-Doctoral FellowPublicity Co-ChairmanPre-Vet Day LiveSurgery ExhibitProgram ChairmanIntramurals

Martin Harold Zarnett 862 E 17th St Brooklyn New York 11230Aqueduct RacetrackSaratoga RacewayAiken amp Camden So Carolina Equine PracticeAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day Guide Asst LiveSurgery Exhibit

Jack B Zines MC 24 Salem OhioLarge Animal PracticeAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

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One of our salesmen made his first calls in this

Seems he started calling on veterinarians 40 years ago He didnt think about selling He thought about animals diseases how to cure them or prevent them Hed recomshymend this that or the other of his products that he thought would be most helpful And the veterinarians liked him Still do In fact nowadays hes calling on the sons of some of his original customers And his point of view is pretty much like that of the rest of our salesmen Their average length of service is 16 years When you stay with a company that long you dont exactly sell it Youre part of it

P I T M A N - M O O R E Division of The Dow Chemical Company Midland Michigan 48640

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PRE-VET DAY - 1967By E DAN WOLF Vet Med Ill

Informative educational professionshyally presentedmdashthese were a few of theevaluations expressed by the 510 pershysons who attended Pre-Vet Day 1967

Following registration tour groups of 25-30 people were formed and each group was led by two student guides through Sisson Hall Goss Pathology Laboratory and the Veterinary ClinicThe program consisted of informative speeches and a tour of the College Theofficial College welcome was extended byDr Walter Venzke This was followed by brief descriptions of the various fields of veterinary medicine Dr Roshybert Hamlin education and research Dr D 0 Jones public health Dr BruceWenger small animal practice Dr James Donham and Dr Clyde Purdy large animal practice Dean Krill then explained the academic and personal qualifications for admission to the colshylege

The tour of the college consisted of explanations and displays illustratingthe function of each department Thesewere prepared and presented by the stushydents and included Anatomy mdash Ron Bockbrader and Dave

HenryBacteriology mdash Jim Guenther Robert

Temple and Stan EichelbergerParasitology mdash Scott Anderson and

Dave Farris Physiology and Pharmacology mdash Frank

Pipers and Steve KurtzerPreventive Medicine mdash Tom Cummins

and Dick Smolen Library mdash Sharon Schumann and Ken

Clever

Pathology mdash Tom Burke Mike Wanskyand Bruce McCullough

Small Animal Medicine mdash Bill Sayle andTed Panhuis

Small Animal Surgery mdash Dick Soldner Ralph Urmson and Doug Cbatney

Large Animal Medicine mdash Harold Fershyguson Bill Reynolds and Fred Adams

Large Animal Surgery mdash Dale Duerr Dick Dailey and Dave McDonald

Ambulatory mdash James Booth Ames Alshylen and Gary Bowman

Clinical Pathology mdash Charles McConshynell Jack Zines and Bill Sternecker

Radiology mdash James Syler and Victoria Voith Some of the departmental programs

presented were Evaluation of Various Physiological Parameters Studies on Gnotobiotic Animals The Physical Exshyamination Basic Surgical Equipment Preparation and Common Surgical Sitshyuations Foaling Rumenotomy and GasAnesthesia Equipment

The majority of those attending Pre-Vet Day seemed to be quite interestedand awed by the varied knowledge andthe professional qualifications of the veterinarian

Lunch was served at both Sisson Hall and the Clinic by the Pre-Vet Club Much work was required and several problems had to be overcome to presentto the public the true picture of veterinshyary medicine (Not the least of these problems was presenting the professionshyal aspects of veterinary medicine in a garage) Everyone who worked so hard to present Pre-Vet Day 1967 deshyserves hearty congratulations

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REPORT ON SPEAKERS BUREAUBy RICHARD WHIPPS Vet Med IV This year the Speakers Bureau of

the AVMA Student Chapter has enshyjoyed its most successful year to date The Speakers Bureau was organizedthree years ago in an effort to inform the public of the broad scope of vetershyinary medicine Junior and senior vetshyerinary students have presented our profession to 4-H Clubs AgriculturalClubs and Survey Classes high schoolsand even to elementary school classesEach speaking engagement is usually handled by a team consisting of one senior and one junior with the senior student handling most of the speaking chores A stimulating question-and-anshyswer period follows almost every preshysentation

Student speakers participated in cashyreer-day programs in high schools throughout central Ohio including Coshylumbus Newark Lancaster and Censhyterburg Speakers presented mogtre specshyialized topics within the realm of vetshyerinary medicine to the Grove City Horsemasters 4-H Club the Wilmingshyton College Agricultural Club and Ag

AVMA NEWS By JUDY SAUERBREI Vet Med Ill This quarter as usual the student

chapter has been very active Pre-Vet Day (held Saturday April 15th) was a success with 510 people registering TheChiron the AVMA sponsored Colshylege of Veterinary Medicine yearbook has been mailed to the publishers and will be delivered to the student body byearly June The very active Speakers Bureau will continue to fulfill requestsfor guest speakers received throughoutthe summer New chairman of this comshymittee will be senior Tom Cummins Also this summer the Live Surgery exshyhibit which is presently at the Center of Science and Industry will be movedto Cincinnati for the Hamilton County Fair and then back to Columbus for The Ohio State Fair in August-Septemshyber

Members have enjoyed some very inshyteresting and informative programsthis quarter including a fine talk by ColScott Radcliff of the Ohio State Patrol

Survey classes and the Central Ohio Cocker Spaniel Club Topics for discusshysion included careers in veterinary medshyicine latest theories and developments in our profession various aspects ofveterinary preventive medicine and therole of the veterinarian in aerospace medicine The record for the longest distance traveled by student speakersthis year is held by the team who spoketo the Beta Beta Beta biological honorshyary of Marietta College

As chairman of the Speakers Bushyreau I would like to thank all the stushydents who served as speakers this yearEach person served his profession wellI am certain that the outreach of the Speakers Bureau will continue to grow as it presents the expanding field of veterinary medicine to the general pubshylic whose knowledge of our profession is in too many instances sadly lackingI would also like to express a specialthanks to Dr Donald Gisler of our facshyulty for giving his time and talents so that our presentations could be of the best possible quality

on Traffic Accidents and a large anishymal panel Members of this panel wereDr Albert Gabel of the OSU Veterinshyary Clinic Dr D G Miller SugarcreekDr Warren Amling London Dr Ed Kennedy Miamiville Dr Donald Moss-burger Bloomingburg Ohio

Other events for members of Student Chapter of AVMA included the Anshynual Awards Banquet on May 19th atthe Grandview Inn and the Spring Picshynic held on May 24th at Big Bear Farms

At the last meeting of the Student Chapter for Spring Quarter 1967 elecshytion of officers was held New officers for the academic year of 1967-68 will be President - Tom Hickey President-elect - Dick Hersman Vice President shyRalph Urmson Secretary - Sharon Schuman Treasurer - Bruce McCullocih These new officers have the great reshysponsibility of continuing to maintain the high standards of leadership exhibshyited by their predecessors

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Ohio State Fair Veterinary Medicine ExhibitBy DAVE ZIMMERMAN Vet Med Ill

For quite a few years the Ohio StateUniversity Student Chapter of the AVMA has presented an informative exhibit concerning veterinary medicineat the Ohio State Fair Last year this project took on a much wider scope Forthe first time live surgery was pershyformed in a modern portable surgical operating room Large pleriglass winshydows and closed circuit television enshyhanced the vantage point of the viewshying public

Again this summer the project will be presented at the Ohio State Fair Present plans call for two surgical proshycedures to be performed daily bylicensed and academy practicing veterishynarians representing their local acadeshymies with narration by students Talks

demonstrations and movies presentingthe complete and varied field of veterishynary medicine will round out the daily program

The purpose of the exhibit is to edushycate the public as to the wide rangeand high quality of service provided bythe modern veterinary clinic Althoughthis project is presented by the stushydents its aim is recognition of public and private practitioners through pubshylic exposure and education All demonshystrations will be presented in the proshyfessional and exacting way that modernveterinary medicine is practiced We feel certain that after a person has witshynessed the procedures presented he willbe much more aware of the ability posshysessed by his veterinarian

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Canine Research Projects SupportedBy The Columbus Collie Club

The Columbus Collie Club donated $3000 to the Ohio State University Vetshyerinary Medicine to be used in Canine research projects The grant was dishyvided among the following projectswhich will be conducted between June 1967 and June 1968 by seniors in the college

Richard Kight Tom Cummins Bob Smatt Dick Flinn L Joe Starcher

FULL THICKNESS BONE GRAPHS IN THE CANINE Seniors Tom Cumshymins Dick Flinn Gene Hofacre Bob Smatt Advisor Dr Richard Rudy

Full thickness bone graphs will be employed in the femur and radius of mature 25-40 pound beagle type dogsThe periosteum of the femur will be inshycised and elevated and the shaft transhysected proximally and distally and thenremoved The shaft will then be splitlongitudinally with care being taken to preserve the endosteum One-half will be discarded the other replaced in its former position The periosteum will beclosed Fixation will consist of an intrashymedullary pin and orthopedic wire Onthe anterior limb the radius will be exshyposed the periosteum split and eleshyvated A 25 cm piece of radius will then be removed Prior to this procedshyure an incision will have been made at the distal portion of the 7th rib and a

5 cm piece of rib removed with the periosteum intact This piece will be cut in half transversely The two secshytions side by side will be secured in theradial defect A Kirsthner splint andorthopedic wire will be used for fixation

The dogs will then be observed for eight weeks and the fracture sites willbe evaluated as to the strength and stashybility of the union

During the course of the study the dogs will be handled as much like acshytual clinical cases as possible Strict aseptic procedures will be carried out and the dogs will be adequately medishycated as would a clinical case

If shown to be successful the typeof graph described above may be utilshyized clinically in restoration of the conshytinuity of bones too severely fractured to be reduced by simpler and convenshytional techniques

QUANTITATIVE DETERMINAshyTION OF CORTICOSTEROIDS PROshyDUCED BY THE ADRENAL CORshyTEX Senior L Joe Starcher Advisshyors Dr Philip W Murdick Dr Edshyward F Donovan

From the results of this project it ishoped that the normal canine corticosshyteroid levels can be determined and a routine testing procedure established Itis possible that such a test would be asuseful as the blood test urinalysis andfecal examination when a complete exshyamination of a dog is done

A METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE RESIN-SPONGE TRIIODOTHROshyNINE UPTAKE TECHNIQUE IN DEshyTECTING THYROID FUNCTION OF THE DOG Senior Victoria L Voith Advisor Dr Walter Lobe

This experiment entails keeping twelve dogs-four in euthyroid four in hypothyroid and four in hyperthyroid states Blood samples will be drawn bishyweekly for three weeks and used to pershyform the resin-sponge triiodothyronine uptake test When radioactive iodine labeled triiodothyronine (T-3) is added

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to a serum sample it first saturates the It is unlikely although possible that unoccupied thyroid-binding sites on the practitioner will perform this tech-Thyroid Binding Protein (TBP) The nique himself but the blood sample remaining T-3 is taken up by the resin- could easily be sent to a laboratory sponge added to the sample The total equipped to perform such a test amount of T-3 is determined Then afshyter incubation the resin-sponge is CLINICAL EVALUATION OF RE-rinsed free of serum and with it the T-3 NAL F U N C T I O N Senior Dick bound to TBP The radioactivity re- Knight Advisor Dr Robert Candon maining in the resin-sponge is then de- The present clinical laboratory parashytermined The percent of radioactive meters for evaluation of renal function T-3 taken up by the resin-sponge is in- are incomplete and poorly understoodversely proportional to the unsaturated The dog that has renal impairment butsites on the TBG and directly propor- does not show frank clinical evidence of tional to the amount of endogenous thy- impairment is the animal that needs roxine and triiodothyronine circulating clinical outlines This animal is the one

The invitro technique used in this ex- that can be helped the most with earlyperiment has been shown to be an ac- therapy andor prophylactic regimes curate and safe method of assessing The purpose of the study is to define thyroid function in human beings The and evaluate clinical parameters for theexperiment is designed to determine the evaluations of glomerular filtration ratevalidity of this test in detection of the renal plasma flow tubular maximum canine thyroid function Since this tech- and sodium-potassium excretion in nique employs the use of serum and nephretic dogs Then if possible the de-does not expose the dog to radioactive velopment of a simple clinical test to iodine it has the possibilities of becom- accomplish these procedures will be atshying of diagnostic use to the practitioner tempted

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NIH HEART GRANTBy FRANK PIPERS Vet Med Ill

Mutual interest on the part of a numshyber of research groups on campus conshyceived the idea of synthesizing capabilishyties and efforts with the end result beshying the formation and aquisition of an NIH grant entitled Biology of the Heart Participating in this endeavor are the Department of Veterinary Physhysiology College of Veterinary Medicineand the Departments of Physiology Medicine and Pathology College of Medicine

The two co-principal directors are Drs Smith and Warren There is a six man Steering Committee and approxishymately 20 to 25 professional efforts with an additional 15 to 20 man technical staff

The overall objective is to study allaspects of the normal and failing heartThe principle endeavors of this project will be

1) ultra microscopy of the failing heart

2) metabolism of the failing rat heart

3) bloodflow to visera and peripheral circulation

4) hemodynamics of the horse5) cardiac and renal function in dogs

with heart disease 6) ventricular and atrial activation

processes in cattle 7) uses of the computer in analyzing

electrocardiographic data of varshyious species

The nucleus of the microscopic workis at Starling Loving Hall where thereis an electron microscope The nucleus for macroscopic experimentation is at

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Sisson Hall where the installation of a $200000 facility has just been comshypleted The facility consists of

1) office space and a conference room2) two modern biochemistry laborashy

tories 3) One general research laboratory 4) a catheterization laboratory with

an adjoining dark room5) large animal laboratory with tilt-

table 6) a laboratory animal lab7) large walk-in refrigerator8) small animal holding quarters9) large animal holding quarters

10) mobile laboratory (which contains2 labs equipment area large anishymal holding stocks and a dark room)

The facilities encompass 6000 squarefeet and are located in the southern half of the basement of Sisson Hall

Although this is an interdisciplinary effort there are obvious advantages toour College

1) It will bring equipment and techshynology to our school

2) It will aid in training and teachshying of graduate veterinarians

3) We can glean information from research to apply to a clinical medium

4) We will have prestige from the success of the faculty

5) We should have the ability to atshytract high quality people to comeand study at our College

We are very proud of the developshyment of this facility and we wish it well

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Such encouragement of risky do-it-yourself client competition is not a factor when you use EVA

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OMEGA TAU SIGAAA NEWS By RONALD H BOCKBRADER

For all those non believers it can honshyestly be said that Spring has finally arshyrived in all its splendor despite severalfalse attempts to break loose from Winshyters tight grasp Needless to say the brothers of Omega Tau Sigma were eagerly awaiting Spring and met it with great enthusiasm

The first major item of business Spring quarter was the election of ofshyficers for the coming year Those elected were as follows

PresidentmdashDon Heagren Vice PresidentmdashAllen Bryant SecretarymdashRon Bockbrader TreasurermdashRich Hersman Assistant TreasurermdashTom Isaac

THE CHIRONBy DON SANDERS Vet Med Ill

This last year the Student Chapter ofthe AVMA voted to establish a yearshybook for the College of Veterinary Medshyicine The yearbook was named The Chiron The name refers to the centaur in Greek mythology who was renownedfor his skill in Medicine

The yearbook was launched by Florshyence Rutledge as editor Penalized byinexperience and a late start Miss Rutshyledge and the staff managed to meet the

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Sergeant-at-ArmsmdashJerry WolfParliamentarianmdashRalph Urmson ChaplainmdashRalph Broshes Rush ChairmanmdashJim Cobb Social ChairmenmdashJoe Starcher

Dave MacDonald Ron Conklin

House ManagermdashCharles Steinman The Brothers of Omega Tau Sigma

are sincere in thanking the retiring ofshyficers after an outstanding year and a job well done

After a fine intramural basketball season which netted a championship troshyphy OTS has again offered its chalshylenge in intramural events with severaltop softball teams

Socially Spring Quarter was again climaxed by the fabulous Senior Send-off and we say that modestly Of coursethe annual cocktail party at the house for Seniors only preceded the evening affair The party was held at Winding Hollow Country Club and exemplified the theme Regal Elegance A delishycious buffet dinner and drinks followed by dancing to Rick Monroes Quintet truly made Senior Sendoff the best everBrothers Grossi and Gurevitz chairshymen of the event can be commended for their efforts

As Spring Quarter draws to a close and the Seniors depart in pursuit of their goals we sincerely wish the best to them and hope that the Fraternityhas been and will continue to be a reshywarding and enjoyable experience for them

deadline for the publishers This yearshybook a true accomplishment for the editor and her staff will come off the press during the first part of June A few extra copies will be printed in case any alumni wish to purchase copies ($700)

Work has already begun on next years Chiron with Don Sanders as theincoming editor Anyone interested in a copy of the Chiron or interested in adshyvertising in next years issue pleasewrite to Don Sanders at the OSU Vetshyerinary Clinic 2578 Kenney Road Coshylumbus Ohio

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ALPHA PSI NEWS

ALPHA PSI By JAY FORSYTH Vet Med II

At the last meeting of the past quarshyter officers for the coming year were elected Jim Syler who did an outstandshying job as last years president was given the honor of serving another year Tom Burke was elected Vice Presshyident Tom Adams will serve as recordshying secretary Mike Snyder the new treasurer will be aided by Ron Montshygomery as assistant treasurer Dick

JIM ROSS (Continued from page 17)

University In the summer of 1966 he attended graduate school at Baylor Unishyversity College of Medicine Houston Texas

Dr Ross will receive his Master of Science degree in June of 1967 His thesis is entitled Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog Clinical and Physioshylogical Features

Beginning on July 1st 1967 Dr Rosswill be a member of the faculty at Bay-lor University College of Medicine with joint appointments in the departshyments of Physiology and Surgery

While an undergraduate student DrRoss became a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Omega Tau Sigma social frashyternities and of Phi Eta Sigma Gam-

Knight will serve as chief censor Jay Forsyth will act as corresponding secshyretary and Ed Stoughton will managethe house

Spring Quarter started off in greatstyle with a house party Alpha Psi thencombined with OTS and had a great time at Bridgeview Country Club

The speakers meeting for the past quarter included Dr R C Smith who spoke on the problems of setting upand running your own private practiceand Mr Joseph A Fodey Jr of CityNational Bank who spoke to the chapshyter about bankings relationship to theprofessional man

In the past two quarters the athleticteams of Alpha Psi have done well Boththe Freshmen and Sophomores broughthome trophies for their division titles Tuesday and Friday baseball squads arewarming up for title hopes after winshyning their league play despite the losses of Herb Betts with a broken foot and Brad Smith with a dislocated finshyger

Other spring events of Alpha Psi inshycluded the freshman welcome picnic onMay 15 1967 The sharp wit of Dr D0 Jones and the barbequed chicken were enjoyed by all The high point ofspring quarter was Senior Sendoff heldon May 26 1967 at the Hospitality Innat which the yearly awards were preshysented

ma Sigma Delta and Phi Zeta honorshyaries

Dr Ross will have a publication apshypearing in the Current VeterinaryTherapy 1967 (in press) entitled Dishyagnosis and Surgical Correction of Pashytent Ductus Arteriosus and Pulmonic Stenosis in the Dog On March 29th 1967 Dr Ross talked to the Northwesshytern OVMA on the subject Heart disease in small animal medicine He alshyso will talk on Diagnosis and SurgicalCorrection of the Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog at the National AVMA meeting in Dallas Texas in July of this year

Dr Ross is married He has a daughshyter Stephanie and his wife Marcia isexpecting a new arrival in June

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AVAAA FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Three members of the Junior Class

have been awarded AVMA grants for research in areas of veterinary medishycine Jon Bernstein is investigating speshycific renal and cardiovascular problemsHis sponsor Dr Robert Hamlin and the National Institute of Health are furnishing the necessary materials Usshying a radio-isotope technique Bernsteinwill be studying renal function of dogs in congestive heart failure He will deshytermine glomerular filtration rate renalblood flow and electrolyte excretion patterns before and after digitalization

Robert Stuhlman under the sponsorshyship of Dr Walter Loeb is using his horse His advisors are Dr Albert Gabel grant to develop a practical test which and Dr R B Heath Parameters monishyis diagnostic for the presence of hepa- tored will include arterial and venous

oxygen carbon dioxide and blood pH tocellular damage and its extent The respiratory rate and depth (pneumoshybasis of the test involves demonstrating graph) systolic and diastolic blood arginase activity with constant results pressures pulse rate and electrocardio-Roy Zinn will compare the effects of gram The ultimate goal of the project

succmylcholine alone and promazine is to evaluate the safety of intravenouswith succinylcholine on the cardiovascu- succinylcholine as an agent for casting lar and respiratory systems of the and restraint of the horse

QRowth bull gestationLactation

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Youre The DoctorBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

A female spayed basset hound IV2 years old was presented for rabies imshymunization with 5 ml of phenolized rashybies vaccine Five days later she was reshyturned in a semi-comatous condition The owner stated that her appetite waspoor ever since her vaccination On thisparticular morning she refused to rise and could not walk when forced to rise Thorough questioning eliminated the possible ingestion of any toxin

On physical examination the dog wasnon-responsive to stimuli Her anal sphincter was relaxed her pupils weremiotic and her temperature was 95deg The dog had a respiration rate of 40 perminute her heart rate was 30 per minshyute Hydration appeared normal but the dogs extremities were extremely cold Her urinary bladder was emptyand no urine could be obtained by cathshyeterization Peripheral lymph nodes were not enlarged nor were there any enlargements on abdominal palpation

The laboratory work done on the dogshowed that she had a PCV of 50 WBC of 7800 with 36 segs 7 non-segs 50 lymphs and 7 eos Her BUN was 147

mg100 ml creatinine was 6 mg100 ml Na was 131 meqL Cl was 96 meq L and K was 93 meqL Renal blood flow was 68 mlmin

The dog was given extensive treatshyment while hospitalized including perishytoneal dialysis She showed marked imshyprovement and so was sent home with medication seven days after admission Two days after dismissal the dog died

What is your diagnosis Doctor Answer on page 44

UPJOHN AWARDS Dale Duer was presented the Upjohn

Award for the most outstanding seniorin large animal medicine Dale is marshyried and is a member of the A V M A and Omega Tau Sigma Upon graduashytion Dale plans to enter large animal practice in Pennsylvania

Receiving the Upjohn Award for the most outstanding senior in small anishymal medicine was Guy Lockwood Guy is married and a member of the A V M A Omega Tau Sigma and Phi ZetaHe will be entering the U S Army Vetshyerinary Corps upon graduation

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Herd Health Management By JOHN C LEITE Vet Med IV PHILLIP A LINERODE DVM PhD

Herd Health Management is a totalapproach to large animal veterinarymedicine It combines into one programthe principles of preventive medicine and clinical medicine When properly apshyplied it could rejuvenate the Veterinarshyian-Farmer relationship

The herd health approach is based upon increasing a clients productivityinstead of running a salvage operationto keep him in business Ideally herd health management provides the means to secure optimum results from the entire herd The tools and techniquesused in herd health are principles ideasand experiments9 carefully and tactshyfully implemented

Since management is an integral part of the herd health approach it necessitates full cooperation of both the Veterinarian and the Farmer For this reason careful selection of clients for this approach is not only desirablebut absolutely essential Likewise the approach to secure cooperation is difshyferent for each farmer and is up to theingenuity of the Veterinarian The Farmer and the Veterinarian are not the only persons who should be inshyvolved in this approach to maximum production Often overlooked are lay people within the practice area who have special backgrounds information and talents that could help the proshygram The lay persons in this categoryare county extension agents vocationalagriculture teachers artificial insemshyination technicians local feed mill opshyerators and milking machine repair men The combined efforts of all these people can truly result in increased production and more profits for the farmer

It must be pointed out that the proshygram is long range and maximum beneshyfits cannot be gained in fewer than 5 or 6 generations in a herd Client confidence must be complete and full authority must be entrusted to the Veterinarian0 The type of operation is not important it may be dairy beef

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swine sheep or equine the principles remain the same

The contractual arrangements beshytween client and practitioner vary withthe type of program and also the geoshygraphic area and its customs Some methods that have been used are13

1 charge on a straight call basis 2 charge by the hour 3 charge by the herd 4 charge for total herd work and

consultation to be done in a giventime (usually by the month or year)

5 charge a percentage of the inshycrease in net profit made by theuse of your service in herd health management

It would be a waste of time to inshyitiate a herd health program without the client being on some type of herd record keeping system For production Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) or Owner Sample (OS) recshyords could be kept with a preference for DHIA Information from producshytion records will aid greatly in detershymining individuals who are worthy of special attention When production records are combined with health recshyords they become invaluable in selectshying stock for the future Recently Morshyrow10 at Cornell University and Boyd Murray and Beck14 at Michigan State developed health records in the form of a folder with moveable colored tabs which indicate the breeding phase of each individual cow These systems however did not attempt to bring toshygether DHIA production records with health records and calf records Bishopand Linerode2 have developed a record keeping system which provides an allshyin-one record keeping system on an 8x10 inch manila folder A unique feashyture of this folder is color tabs to help the dairyman anticipate heat and to indicate the proper time to beginchallenge feeding This new system canbe used by the 1) Dairyman 2) Vetshy

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J racheopharyngitis can lay a horse low fast keep him out of action result in important economic losses to the owner You can return the animal to peak performance quickly with Dantafurreg Administration of Dantafur promptly reverses the course of tracheopharyngitis It relieves coughing and nasal discharge returns the animal to normal breathing

In urinary tract infections Dantafur places imporshytant antibacterial concentrations in the urine within 30 minutes after administration It is effective and practically specific for the infected urinary tract resulting in dramatic cures and animals clinically and bacteriologically free from infection1

DOSAGE Dantafur mdash Tracheopharyngitis (Race Track Cough) mdash for each 225 lbs body weight adshyminister perorally an initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 5 days Urinary Tract Infections mdash for each 225 lbs body weight administer perorally an

initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 7 days and for at least 3 days after urine is sterile SUPPLIED Dantafurmdashoral suspension veterinary Each cc contains 15 mg nitrofurantoin in special suspending medium containing 10 alcohol bottles of 473 cc and 1250 cc As with any potent antibacterial agent administer with caution in cases of marked impairment of renal function safe dosage may be less than usually recommended 1 Witter R S Third Regional Conference on Nitrourans in Veterinary Medicine Atlanta Georgia January 14 1960

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erinarian 3) A I Technician and 4) the Milk Tester This system will proshyvide a means for the dairyman to keepup with his record keeping

Once adequate records are availshyable the veterinarian is ready to tackle the herd health problems In many cases changes must be gradualbecause of the inherent characteristics and attitudes of the client Divisions can be made in order to work on vashyrious aspects of the program and not all aspects need to be carried out at once Five aspects have been adopted in the Herd Health Management Proshygrams in the Wooster Ohio area

1 Mastitis Control 2 Nutrition 3 Fertility and Reproduction 4 Calf Management and Vaccination 5 SanitationThese are discussed below

1 Mastitis Control Mastitis may be defined as an inshy

flammation of the mammary gland reshysulting from the interplay of various etiologic factors their environment andthe host in question From the definishytion it may be assumed that no one causative agent is responsible for masshytitis

Degrees or clinical types of mastitiscan be recognized severe - acute mild shyacute or chronic and subclinical

The severe type can be easily recogshynized and must be treated immediatelyOne recommended treatment would be the administration of Posterior Pituishytary Extract strip out the quarters and administer Liquimycin and sulfa IV with a repeat treatment in 24 hours

The mild and subclinical forms may go unrecognized and therefore some type of screening test should be pershyformed prior to the attachment of the milking machine The most common and easiest test to run is the strip plateor strip cup but some subclinical and even the mild cases may still go unshynoticed The following more elaborate tests may be used to detect these formsof mastitis

California Mastitis Test (CMT)12

Lye Mastitis Test (LMT)4

Michigan Mastitis Test (MMT)4

Liquimycinreg Charles Pfizer amp Co New York NY

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Whiteside Test9

A Whiteside Test or a Wisconsin Mastitis Test (WMT)12 may be run on bulk tanks to pick up the presence of mastitis in the herd

Further laboratory tests can be conshyducted on sterily collected milk samshyples

Culturemdashstreaking on BAP to obshytain isolation and tentative identishyfication

Catalase Test12mdashbased on the presshyence of catalase contained in sershyum white blood cells epithelial cells colostrum and bacteria

Coagulase Testmdashused to determine Staphoylococcus pathogenicity

Mastitis caused by infestious organshyism can be attributed almost 100 to Streptococcus agalactiia and Staphyshylococcus It has been said that the greatest economic loss is due to Streptococcus agalactiia This organism is easily diagnosed by the use of the Hotis Test and with proper treatment can be eliminated in the cow All cows should be tested once a montih for three months During this period the cows should be arranged in a milking seshyquence according to the results of the test The animals producing a positive test are treated by intramammary inshyfusion of 400000 units of penicillin in18cc of sterile distilled water into each quarter One treatment is usually sufshyficient to eradicate the organism The tests are then conducted every three months for the remainder of he yearand if the herd is free of the organismthey are then conducted at 6 month inshytervals1 To back a positive Hotis Testa Camp Test is run in the laboratory to prove or rule out the presence of a partial hemolizing agent

If Staphylococcus is suspected or proven the only treatment which may prove to be satisfactory is systemic treatment because of the location and pathogenic nature of the organism

Needless to say any cow with masshytitis should be placed last in the milkshying line and extra special sanitary preshycautions taken with her and the equipshyment A cow that fails to respond to treatment or has an irreversible fibshyrotic udder should be culled

Infective agents are not the only etiology for mastitis and the practionshy

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er must maintain a keen eye to locate the other causes or possible causes and then have the condition corrected Othshyer etiologies may be improper milking injured teats and environmental 2 Nutrition

Good nutrition is an obvious and efshyfective tool for the progressive Veterishynarian to use in maintaining high proshyducers in a herd In general over half of the animal deaths are due to malnushytrition because inadequate nutrition will decrease the animals resistance to disshyease Nutrition is the cornerstone of success in herd health management and is often an overlooked factor in infertility It has been incriminated in fetal resorption and anestrus or failure to ovulate5

The basic approach would be to work out average requirements for the herd in digestible protein and Total Digestshyible Nutrients (TDN) A ration comshyposed of corn to supply TDN and soy bean oil meal to supply protein can fulfill the respective requirements and is economical Another rich source of protein is urea which can safely be used up to 3 of the ration It is availshyable in two forms 262 and 285 protein equivalents It is extremely cheap as compared to SBOM and the amount of protein derived from it A word of caution must be inserted here and that is to check with your local feed mill to see if they have the capashycity to mix urea into a ration Trace mineralized salt should be fed free choice

Forages and home grown grains should be tested periodically because it has been found that they may be below estimated textbook values3-5 depending on the type and condition of the growshying season

3 Fertility and Reproduction Fertility checks proper breeding and

a complete obstetrical program in the herd attempt to reach a goal of one calf per year from each cow As menshytioned before nutrition is a prime facshytor in fertility Once it is adequate a successful reproductive program can be launched

A cow should be palpated rectally 30 to 45 days after freshening to deshy

termine if uterine pathology is present or if the animal is ready to be bred on the next heat If pathology is present as indicated by an enlarged flaccid uterus that lacks tone the uterus should be infused with 4 million units of penicillin and 5 grams streptomycin combination mixed with 20cc of Utoshynex (2 mgm ethinyl estradiol and 20 mgm nitrofurathiazide) A cow that is bred on the heat after palpation would place the breeding date approximately 60 days after freshening The cow is then checked at 45-60 days after breedshying to determine if conception has ocshycurred and again prior to being dried off to detect any possible fetal resorpshytion or mummification5 The 45-60 day post breeding check is done to minimize lost time if conception did not occur on the initial breeding or if the fershytilized ova was lost and subsequent heat periods were missed

To aid the student and the clinician in palpating an approximate set of measurements of the whole bulge of the amniotic sac has been proposed

hens egg 40 days baseball 50 days softball 60 days volleyball 70 days basketball 80 days

Additional criteria can be used to apshyproximate the length of the pregnancy

35-60 days mdash slipping of the fetal membranes

85-90 days mdash fremitis of the midshydle uterine artery

110-120 days mdash presence of cotelyshydons

When following a regular program of rectal palpation abnormal conditions can be detected before they become irshyreversible Regular rectal palpation will clearly define the ovarian activity With this method of diagnosis expensive problem cows can be culled from the milk line or treated in an attempt to correct the difficulty In this program an accurate up to date set of records is essential

4 Calf Management and Vaccination This phase begins before the calf is

dropped The cow should be moved to a special maternity stall which is built to accommodate one cow very comfortshyably The calving stalls should be

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cleaned and disinfected between occushypants contain adequate clean bedding have good drainage be warm and have good ventilation The bedding should be changed periodically during the occupants tenure When the calf is dropped the umbilicus should be swabbed with a tincture of iodine and the fetal membranes removed before the cow can ingest them By performshying these simple tasks the new born has been given a much greater chance for survival When the time arrives for the calf to be separated from its mother it should be moved to an inshydividual calf stall When calves are pastthe stage of suckling one another theycan then be moved to clean well bedded and ventilated quarters which will acshycommodate several calves Nutrition is often overlooked in the calf crop in that they are usually fed the formushylated ration of the milking string A separate ration should be calculated forthe calves which is much higher in proshytein to accommodate fast growth The development of the calf during this period will have a direct influence onceshe enters the milk line Before reachshying the age of four months (120 days) calves are vaccinated for Brucellosis TB tested dehorned and have supershynumary teats removed If the owner so desires the calves may be vaccishynated for IBR and BVD at this time

The calf management program proshyvides a total health effort to improve the future milk string of the operashytion The program when followed dilishygently should provide for excellent calf survival with losses less than 1

5 Sanitation Sanitation should be the center of a

herd health program or the hub aroundwhich the other four aspects of the program revolve however it is often the most overlooked or neglected pracshytice in operations today It not only includes the premises but also theanimals and equipment

Junk and trash lying around the farm and especially around the barn and grain storage areas promote rats and mice Junk trash dirt cobwebs inside the barn present physical hazshyards to the animals This material is also a potential health hazard for it may provide the reservoir that disease

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needs in order to be propagated Improper drainage in the stall area

exercise lot and loafing shed promotethe accumulation of urine and feces and increase the possibility of animal foot problems and other health probshylems Manure is always a disposal probshylem but it must be cleaned daily fromthese areas and not allowd to accumushylate Bedding material must be changedfrequently if the animal urinates or dencates within the resting space Cowson which feces are allowed to accumushylate are health hazards to the herd and show a sign of poor management These cows should be washed and brushed to clean this material from their body

The housing and work areas must have adequate lighting so that the opshyerator and the Veterinarian may havemore ideal conditions in which to work More problem areas can be seen in a well lighted area than in a dark or dimly lit area Ventilation should be perfect so as to promote a healthy atshymosphere for the animals and lessen the possibility of money being lost due to respiratory diseases The principlesof admitting ample fresh air high andremoving the tainted air low will rid the area of moisture and foul ammonia fumes from urine

When designing the ventilation sysshytem it must be remembered that when admitting the fresh air the inlets mustbe planned so that there is one inlet of 60 sq in for every 3i2 - 1000 anishymal units The inlets can be placed at various places around the barn or stable area To eject the air a flue should beconsidered only if the distance from the highest point on the barn roof to the ground is 30 ft or more7 The flue size will be determined by the volume of the area to be evacuated It is imshyportant to place a door in the flue nearthe ceiling This door can be opened inthe summer months to aid in movingthe hot air which accumulates near the ceiling If the distance from the highshyest point on the barn roof to the groundis less than 30 ft a mechanical type system must be employed to evacuate the area The same principle applies in the mechanical systemmdashenter the fresh air high and exit the stale air low The number of mechanical units

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needed should be sufficient to provide a complete change of air six times every hour Sanitation also includes themilking parlor the equipment used and the technique employed in the acshytual milking The incidence of mastitis can increase when strict sanitary proshycedures are not adhered to The udder and especially the teats should be washed thoroughly with a mild soap and one of the iodine antiseptic prepshyarations This procedure not only stimushylates milk let down but reduces the possibility of spreading bacteria and contaminating the milk or other udshyders The inflation cups should be dipped into an iodine preparation inshysuring that the whole cup has been cleansed The cups then should be placed on the teat (after a strip plate test has been run) without allowingthem to touch the ground or other obshyjects such as bedding The wash waterand the water used to dip the teat cupsshould be changed at fifteen cow in-

This article is submitted due to interest shown by many and with the firm belief that Herd Health Management is the future of large anishymal practice The article was condensed from a paper prepared by Jack Leite for Dr Line-rode as part of the requirement for VeterinaryPreventive Medicine 740 Much of what is outshylined in this article comes from experience gained on field trips to Wooster Ohio area where herd health management programs are being conducted in five private dairy herds with the cooperation and participation of Drs Don Noah and Robert Mairs

1 A Syllabus on the Bovine Mammary Gland in Health amp Disease Department of Clinishycal Pathology School of Veterinary Medishycine University of California Davis Calishyfornia Schalm OW

2 Bishop J P amp Linerode PA Dairy Herd Health Management Record System Ohio State University 1967

3 Coppock CE amp Tyrell HE Feeding Recshyommendations for Lactating Cows Modern Veterinary Practice vol 48 1 January 1967

4 Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio

3 Drewry GH The Total Program Approachto Herd Health Management Modern Vetshyerinary Practice vol 48 2 February 1967

6 Guss Samuel B Milking Machines and Mastitis Modern Veterinary Practice vol 45 12 October 15 1964

7 Helwig John H Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinshyary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Personal Communication

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tervals throughout the milking proshycedure

The herd health management proshygram does not eliminate the emergencycalls The practitioner should be preshypared for them but the program shouldreduce the frequency of such calls andimproves the environment in which theVeterinarian must work Herd Health Management allows the farmer to proshyduce the greatest quantity of his proshyduct at the highest quality for the least cost A guideline in establishing a herd health program entitled Proshygramming Herd Health can be obshytained from Veterinary Practitioners Counseling Service VM Publishing Inc 144 N Nettleton Street Bonner Springs Kansas This aid to the pracshytitioner is available for Beef or Dairy operations at a nominal fee and may be a worth while investment for any one thinking of doing herd health work

8 Linerode Phillip A Department of Vetershyinary Preventative Medicine College of Vetshyerinary Medicine The Ohio State Universishyty Personal Communication

9 Modern Veterinary Practice vol 15 12 October 15 1964 p 8-62

10 Morrow DA Herd Health Records Corshynell University

11 Rice RE Trends in Large Animal Pracshytice Norden News vol 41 3 1966

12 US Department of Health Education and Welfare Screening Tests for Detection of Abnormal Milk 1965

13 Steere James H Modern Veterinary Pracshytice Reference and Data Service Large Anishymal 4 p A-8-8

14 Veterinary Clinic amp Dairy Dept Cooperashytive Extension Service Michigan State Unishyversity East Lansing Michigan

15 Woelffer EA Modern Veterinary Practice Reference and Data Service Large Animal 4 p A-8-19

YOURE THE DOCTOR (Continued)

Answer This dog had adrenal hyposhycortism or Addisons Disease The diagshynosis was confirmed by performing theThorn Test The preinjection samplecontained 1765 eoscu mm Two hoursafter the injection of ACTH the samshyple contained 1468 eoscu mm After four hours the sample contained 1815eoscu mm Necropsy confirmed thatthe dog had had adrenal hypocortisni

THE SPECULUM

Training in comparative radiologyand laboratory animal medicine for resshyidents in medicine and veterinary medishycine will be given in cooperation with University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine and Department of Radiology

Dr Roenigk will continue research programs in cancer therapy diagnosticradiology and nuclear medicine He willembark upon new programs of comshyparative research in pediatrics and rashydiology

Preventive Medicine

Dr John H Helwig and Dr D S Kalra have developed a rapid test for the estimation of catalase in milk The test is relatively simple and may be completed in 5-10 minutes Former methods have required several hours A paper describing the details of the test is in the final stages of preparationand will be published in an acceptable scientific journal

Dr Helwig will complete thirty (30) years of teaching on July 1 1967 OnMay 10 1967 the Board of Trustees ofThe Ohio State University presented a 30 Year Service pin during the annualbanquet honoring these occasions

Dr W Michael Hockman has been assigned to the Dept of Vet Prev Medby the U S Meat Inspection Division to assist the Department in teaching ajunior course dealing with food hygieneand to supervise a senior off-campus course in various packing plants near Columbus

Doctor Phillip A Linerode received his PhD degree Autumn Quarter for his studies in equine nutrition usingfistulated ponies He has also developed a Herd Health Management teachingprogram for private herds in the Woosshyter area Doctor Linerodes dissertashytion is entitled Studies on the Synshythesis and Absorption of B Complex Vitamins in the Equine

Doctor Linerodes wife gave birth toa son on January 12 1967 The boy is

named Thomas Edward The Linerode family will be moving to Texas whereDoctor Linerode will be joining the facshyulty of the College of Veterinary Medishycine at Texas A and M in July

Doctor Lloyd D Konyha recentlycompleted two weeks of extensive trainshying in tuberculosis seroloical diagnosshytic techniques at the National Animal Disease Laboratory USDA Ames Iowa He is now applying these tests on equine serum as part of his gradushyate program

Doctor Konyha has recently had pubshylished Avian Tuberculosis - A Review of the Literature published in Tubershyculosis Review USDA No 15 Feb 1967

bull Medicine

Doctor Phillip Murdick reports thatthe Equine Research laboratory has hadits research grant renewed for one yearConsiderable progress has been made on the development of a suitable test forthe detection of drugs in race horses but more work remains to be done In addition the Ohio State Racing pom-mission has granted the Veterinary Clinics request for $37000 from the Ohio Thoroughbred fund for research on a Pre-race test These monies will be used to study the possibilities of autoshymation as a tool for the pre-race test

A telecture entitled Equine and Boshyvine Reproduction Problems was preshysented by Doctors Phillip Murdick Vershynon L Tharp and Keith Wearly to theCentral Illinois VMAH on March 22 1967 These Doctors also presented a short course on Equine Reproduction Veterinarians from eight states attenshyded the short course

Doctor Milton Wyman in co-operashytion with the Florida State VeterinaryMedical Association gave short coursesin Tallahassee Ocala Miami West Palm Beach and Tampa At the Illinois Statemeeting Doctor Wyman presented two papers Glaucoma and Conjunctival Dishyseases in the Dog

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Doctor Wyman has recently pub- Doctor Wyman will be working on a lished a paper entitled Glaucoma Di- new congenital hereditary ocular dishyagnosis and Therapy which appeared in the Auburn Veterinarian sease in the Basenji

VETERINARY COLLEGEACQUIRES BUSINESS OFFICER

Mr G Darwin Cunningham was asshysigned to the College of VeterinaryMedicine on March 14 as Business Ofshyficer

Dr Gordon B Carson Vice President for Business and Finance made the asshysignment as part of a program to proshyvide assistance to the Deans of the mashyjor colleges on campus Although MrCunningham remains a member of DrCarsons staff his primary responsibilishyties are to assist the College of Veterinshyary Medicine in fiscal matters and in administration and business proceduresHe will maintain a full time office in USS Rochester in Korea This three Sisson Hall year tour of duty was completed as Reg-

A native of New London Ohio Mr imental Commander Recruit TrainingCunningham received a bachelors de- Command San Diego California Curshygree from Ohio University summa cum rently a Lieutenant Commander he is laude and was elected to Phi Beta a member of Naval Reserve Officers Kappa Psi Chi and Phi Eta Sigma School 4-5 Columbus

He served as a naval officer in World Prior to joining The Ohio State Uni-War II as a member of Admiral Hal- versity Mr Cunningham was supervisshyseys Third Fleet Staff and was pres- or of Forecasting and Analysis Genershyent at the Japanese surrender on the al Dynamics Corporation San Diego USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay He con- California During his ten years with tinued active in the Naval Reserve as the company he was a member of theExecutive Officer of a Surface Division division which activated the first In-and returned to active duty as Assistant tercontinental Ballistic Missile launch-Operations Officer of the heavy cruiser ing sites in the United States

Financial Security Through Professional Financial Planning

James W Morris Graduate-Professional Consultant

1500 West Third Avenue Columbus Ohio Phone 486-9401 Representing Continental Assurance Co Chicago Illinois

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DR THOMAS BIBB Dr Thomas L Bibb received his BS

in Animal Husbandry from Virginia Tech in 1958 He received his DVM from the Ohio State University in 1962While attending OSU Dr Bibb was amember of Omega Tau Sigma and PhiZeta

After graduation Dr Bibb went to Winchester Virginia where he was in a three man mixed practice doing mostly large animal work for three years He then went to Virginia Tech as the clinician for the University and experiment station herds and flocks and was also a member of the Veterinary Science Department He took a two

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year leave of absence in July 1966 tocome back to OSU and pursue a MSdegree in Veterinary Medicine in thearea of large animal reproduction DrBibb hopes by the Summer of 1968 tohave finished his work and return to Virginia Tech

Dr Bibb is married to the former Susan Bierer of Winchester Virginia They have no children

Dr Bibb is a member of the AVMA the VVMA the OVMA the Amerishycan Society of Animal Science the American Society for the Study ot Breeding Soundness and the Southeastshyern Society for the Study of Breeding Soundness

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THE

COLLEGE

DR JAMES N ROSS JR Dr Ross was born in Akron Ohio

on December 18th 1940 He graduatedfrom Norwalk High School as valedicshytorian in 1958 From 1958 to 1960 he attended DePauw University in Green-castle Indiana where he was a Rector Scholar He graduated in 1960

In the Fall of 1960 Dr Ross entered the College of Agriculture at The OhioState University From February to September of 1961 he was an exchangestudent at Freiberg University Freishyberg iBr Germany

From Fall 1961 to Spring 1965 whenhe received his DVM he attended the

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College of Veterinary Medicine at TheOhio State University He was a research assistant in the Department ofPhysiology from 1962 to 1965

In the summer of 1963 Dr Ross worked for COSTEP in the US Public Health Service studying a survey of heart disease in horses In the summer of 1964 he also worked for COSTEP but this time he was stationed at the Armed Forces Institute Of Pathology in Washington DC studying patholshyogy in horses hearts

Since 1965 Dr Ross has been in the Graduate School as a NIH cardiologytrainee in the Department on Physioloshygy and Pharmacology at The Ohio State

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DR ARTHUR I SWAN Dr Arthur I Swan graduated from

the Royal Veterinary College Universishyty of London England in 1953

Following graduation Dr Swan spent four years in mixed general pracshytice He then joined the staff of the Wellcome Foundation Research Laborashytories His work there was connected with anaerobic vaccine production and research His duties included working at a large equine stud that was conshycerned with antisera production Later Dr Swan was transferred to the Well-come Veterinary Research Station for a period of two years At the Research

Station he spent his time working on chemotheraputic testing in large and small animals

In 1963 Dr Swan was appointed to the Animal Pathology Division of theCanadian Federal Department of Agrishyculture Here his duties were in the Veterinary Microbiological Diagnostic and Research Departments

On May 8 1967 Dr Swan joined theDepartment of Veterinary Clinical Pathology of the Ohio State UniversityCollege of Veterinary Medicine He willbe working as a graduate teaching asshysociate in the microbiology laboratory

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1967 GRADUATING SENIORSBy DORTHEA LOWER amp JOSEPH WAGNER Vet Med IV

The seniors who are graduating this June are listed as follows along with degrees activishyties and expected location

Michael R Andrews 3958 Halsey PlaceColumbus OhioFt McPhersonAtlanta GeorgiaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

Donald W- Barton PO Box 365 Hamden OhioHamden-Vinton County

Ohio Mixed Practice AVMA

Richard E Bernard 2233 Arlington AveColumbus OhioDavis-Monthan AFB Tuscon ArizonaUSAF AVMA Alpha Psi

Paul BinnigRD 2 Minerva Ohio 44657Minerva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Alpha Psi

Asst Treas Treas

John Philip BishopMilford Center OhioUniversity of the SouthDept of AgronomyBahia Blanca ArgentinaPurdue Fellow-Internship

in foreign agriculturaldevelopment

AVMA OTS

Robert R Blease Upper Ferry RoadTrenton N JAVMA Alpha Psi

Jack Bonham 5165 Penny PikeSpringfield OhioPublic Health - City of

SpringfieldAVMA

James Booth640 Forest AveZanesville OhioAVMA OTS

Clinic Intern

Gary L Bowman333 S Market Street Loudonville OhioAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

Eugene M Breznock21129 Westwood Rd Fairview Park 26 OhioAVMA Phi Zeta

Melvin Butler Normantown W VaBuckeye Veterinary ClinicPO Box 476 Buckeye ArizonaMixed Practice AVMA

Richard S Dailey614 Jefferson Avenue Charles Town W VaBrentwood Veterinary

HospitalPortsmouth VirginiaSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Clinic Intern

Louis Diluzio 3955 West Sprague RoadNorth Royalton Ohio

44133 Small Animal Practice AVMA

Dale L DuerrRoute 1Bolivar Ohio 44612Quakertown Animal

Hospital40 S 11th St Quakertown Pa 18951Mixed Practice AVMA OTS

Speculum Large AnimalClinician Award

James L Ehler ER Squibb

Pharmaceuticals Animal Products Services New Brunswick New

JerseyAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day

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Rodney FergusonRD 3East Liverpool OhioTexas A amp M University-Resident Large Animal

Clinics AVMA OTS Phi Zeta

Ronald J Frank 4430 Tindall St NWWashington DC 20016Hancock Air Base Syracuse NY 13225AVMA OTS

Dorothea L Freitas Far Hills NJ 07931360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York N Y 10021Internship - Animal

Medical Center AVMA Secy Phi Zeta

Speculum Co-editorClass Secy

Robert A Fritz Sylvania RoadToledo Ohio654 Stimmelmdash14 Columbus Ohio 43223USAF in MichiganAVMA OTS Treas

Speculum Assoc EditorCheron PhotographyEditor

Joseph Grossi JrMeadowbrook Manor Wintersville OhioMontgomery Animal

Hospital7700 Montgomery RoadCincinnati OhioAVMA OTS Class

Secy

Richard H Gurevitz 269-4 N Chesterfield Rd Columbus Ohio 43209Becher Animal HospitalColumbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Awards

Banquet ChairmanOTS Social ChairmanPledge Master GammaClass Pres Award

Dennis D HardyEden Idaho University of CaliforniaDavis California Internship Large Animal

Med amp Sur AVMA

James Hatfield D D 9

Bethel Ohio 45106AVMA

Thomas D HeadingSo Missouri Ave Wellston OhioPaine Air Field Everett WashingtonUSAF AVMA OTS

Daniel R Helvoigt1014 Fremont St Dover Ohio Rt 3 Shippensburg Pa90 Dairy PracticeAVMA Mark Morris

Fellow

William E Hendricks 100 E 6th Street West Lafayette OhioChicago 111 US ArmyAVMA OTS

Robert Henry R 3 Cardington Ohio 43315Bunker Hill Animal

Hospital6220 Jefferson Rd Ashtabula OhioMixed Practice AVMA Class Pres

Ron Jenne 1125 Eastgate RdToledo OBoston Mass after Nov

1567US ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

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Philip Johnson7580 Shawnee Run Rd Cincinnati Ohio656 Riverview Drive Columbus OhioLaboratory Animal

Medicine OSU AVMA

J Thomas LangRFD 1 Big Prairie OhioQuakertown Ani HospQuakertown PennsylvaniaDairy PracticeAVMA OTS

Donald R Kaeser 4871 Olentangy River RdColumbus Ohio121 Harvey AveDoylestown PaBuckingham Animal

HospitalBuckingham PennsylvaniaMixed mainly large

animal practiceAVMA OTS

Randy Kidd7629 Clark State Road Blacklick OhioMixed Practice AVMA OTS

President

Richard C Koritansky14032 GAR HighwayChardon Ohio 44024Abbotsford Veterinary

Clinic Ltd PO Box 96 Abbotsford British

Columbia CanadaLarge Animal PracticeAVMA Alpha Psi

corresponding secygtStudent Council

Dean Karl Kraus co Mr Charles OttoRoute 2 and 6 East Huron OhioTredyffrin Veterinary

Hospital1476 Lancaster Avenue Paoli Pennsylvania 19301Small Animal Practice AVMA class

rep resentati vetreasurer speakersbureau

Communications Chairman of Live Surgery Exhibit

Daniel E Lafontaine RR 1 Alvada Ohio Persidio of San Francisco San Francisco Calif US ArmyAVMA OTS

John C Leite 812 Clinton St Fremont 01877 Oakland Park Columbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Guy C Lockwood125 E Como Avenue Columbus Ohio Pentagon

Washington DC 20315Washington DCUS ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Small AnimalClinician Award

Lance O Lollini 430 Sinclair Street Yorkville OhioFt Bragg North CarolinaUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Phi

Phi Zeta

James C Lonz Route 3 Norwalk OhioYuma Test Station Yuma Arizona US ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta class treasStudent Council

E Clinton LowryForest Hill West Virginia360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York NY 10021Small Animal Internship shy

Animal Medical Center AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Co-chairman Pre-Vet Day Clinic InternClass Treas

Bruce Marhefka Kensington OhioUniversity of Minnesota shy

College of Vet MedSmall Animal Surgery shy

Instructor AVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day listening booth

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jpoundSl^

MANOREWS 0 BAKTON K BERNARD P BINNIG J BISHOP P S L E S E J B O N H A M J BOOTH G BOWMAN G- BREZNOCK MBUTLER R DAILEY

L OILUZIO D DUERR J EHLER PFERGUSON PFRANK D FREITAS RFRITZ RGUREV1TZ 0 HARDY T HATP1ELD T HEADING

S 0 HELVOIGT W HENOMCKS RHENRY PJENNE OPRATT 8SAYLE J GROSS PJOHNSON 0 KAESER RKiOD RKORITANSKY

VtCE-PRSB PRESIDENT SKt shy TREAS

0 KRAUS 0 LAF0NTA1NE JT L A N G J LEITE

COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

G U3CKW000 L LOLLINI J LONZ C lOWfOT

BMARHEfKA CMCCONNELL MMCGANNON JMEHLING L MILEY RMYERS TOWEN DPAULO J PRATT J PURVI S M R A D C U F F E C R A F L O

WRANNELLS BREYNOLDS F BUTLEDQE GRSfKORA RSOLONER JWAGNER RWHJPPS WYAKLIY MYOUSHAK M ZARNETT J ZINES

Charles T McConnell 707 Main Street Toronto OhioLewis Animal HospitalCincinnati OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Phi Zeta

Exhibit Chairman Pre-Vet Day

Mel McGannon Box 143 Windsor OhioBoyds Animal HospitalGeneva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Clinic Intern

John A Mehling 118 N Wood Street Fremont OhioCollege of Veterinary

Medicine Cornell UniversityIthaca NY Dairy Practice shy

Ambulatory ClinicianAVMA

Larry Miley R i Eaton OhioFt Snelling after Nov

15 1967 Minneapolis MinnUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Pre Vet Day guide

Richard A Myersco Richard D Myers1271 Arbor Lane Marion OhioClover Park Veterinary

HospitalTacoma WashingtonSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Terry Owen4671 Venus Road Uniontown Rd 2 Ohio Letterman General HospSurgical amp Physiological

Research San Francisco Cal US ArmyAVMA OTS Pre-

Vet Day

F Daniel Paulo RD 1 Box 100 North Jackson OhioBeale AFB CaliforniaUSAF AVMA class

representative secretaryOTS Student Council

John Carl Pratt Rankins Creek Road South Point Ohio 45680South Point OhioMixed Mostly Large

Animal PracticeAVMA

Orben Pratt Jr Rt 1 St Paris Ohio 43072Ft McArthur Los Angeles CaliforniaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

intramural sports

James Purvis 525 KensingtonMiddletown Ohio 45042Lynch Animal Hospital3410 Tytus AveMiddletown OSmall Animal PracticeAVMA OTS

Intramural SportsStudent Council

Michael Radcliffe 2587 Mt Holyoke DriveColumbus Ohio 43221San Francisco Calif Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Charles P Raflo 6267 Elbrook Avenue Cincinnati Ohio 45237Aberdeen Proving Ground

MarylandUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Recording SecyChief Censor

William T Rannells RFD 1 New Plymouth Ohio

45654New Plymouth OhioMixed Practice AVMA

Bill B ReynoldsRt 3 Box 510Clarksburg W Va Reynolds Animal HospitalClarksburg W Va Mixed Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Student CouncilPresident Master of Ceremonies at AVMA Awards Banquet

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Florence Rutledge11815 Davis Court Lakewood Ohio 44107Gasow Veterinary Hospital1521 North Woodward

Ave Birmingham Michigan

48011 Small Animal Practice AVMA Chiron Editor

Sigma Gamma DeltaBorden Award Phi Zeta

William R SayleChagrin Falls Ohio 44042Amherst Animal HospitalAmherst Ohio 44001Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Intramurals PledgeMaster PresidentStudent Council

Speculum Chiron Gamma Award ClassPresident Merck Award

Richard Soldner 3322 Maize Rd Columbus OhioSpringfield Animal

Hospital36 Warder StreetSpringfield OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS PhiZeta Exhibit Chairman

Pre-Vet Day

George R SikoraHinckley OhioRichards amp Gebauer

AFBKansas City MoUSAF Base

Veterinarian AVMA Phi Zeta

Chiron SpeculumAlpha Psi Award

Joseph L Wagner6921 Salem Road Cincinnati Ohio 45030Laboratory Animal

FacilitySchool of Medicine shy

University of NorthCarolina

Chapel Hill NorthCarolina 27514

Laboratory AnimalMedicine - Graduate School

AVMA OTS PhiZeta AVMAFoundation ScholarshipMark Morris Research

Fellow Pre-Vet Day Speculum

Co-editor

Richard D Whipps1447 Thurell Rd Columbus OhioFort Lewis Spokane WashingtonUS ArmyAVMA Chiron

Business Mgr SpeakersBureau Chairman

William Lee Yakely1309 Cross Street Dover OhioWashington State

University - College ofVeterinary Medicine

Resident AVMA Co-Chairman

Publicity amp Picnic Committee ChairmanLive Surgery ExhibitTreasurer Vice-President OTSChairman Awards

AVMA Auxiliary AwardCommittee MarkMorris Research Fellow

Michael Youshak Huntsburg OhioVeterinary PathologyOhio State University1925 Coffey RoadColumbus OhioPost-Doctoral Graduate

ProgramAVMA President

OTS Phi Zeta PhizerAward Alpha PsiAlumni Award Speculum Chiron Pre-Doctoral FellowPublicity Co-ChairmanPre-Vet Day LiveSurgery ExhibitProgram ChairmanIntramurals

Martin Harold Zarnett 862 E 17th St Brooklyn New York 11230Aqueduct RacetrackSaratoga RacewayAiken amp Camden So Carolina Equine PracticeAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day Guide Asst LiveSurgery Exhibit

Jack B Zines MC 24 Salem OhioLarge Animal PracticeAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

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One of our salesmen made his first calls in this

Seems he started calling on veterinarians 40 years ago He didnt think about selling He thought about animals diseases how to cure them or prevent them Hed recomshymend this that or the other of his products that he thought would be most helpful And the veterinarians liked him Still do In fact nowadays hes calling on the sons of some of his original customers And his point of view is pretty much like that of the rest of our salesmen Their average length of service is 16 years When you stay with a company that long you dont exactly sell it Youre part of it

P I T M A N - M O O R E Division of The Dow Chemical Company Midland Michigan 48640

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PRE-VET DAY - 1967By E DAN WOLF Vet Med Ill

Informative educational professionshyally presentedmdashthese were a few of theevaluations expressed by the 510 pershysons who attended Pre-Vet Day 1967

Following registration tour groups of 25-30 people were formed and each group was led by two student guides through Sisson Hall Goss Pathology Laboratory and the Veterinary ClinicThe program consisted of informative speeches and a tour of the College Theofficial College welcome was extended byDr Walter Venzke This was followed by brief descriptions of the various fields of veterinary medicine Dr Roshybert Hamlin education and research Dr D 0 Jones public health Dr BruceWenger small animal practice Dr James Donham and Dr Clyde Purdy large animal practice Dean Krill then explained the academic and personal qualifications for admission to the colshylege

The tour of the college consisted of explanations and displays illustratingthe function of each department Thesewere prepared and presented by the stushydents and included Anatomy mdash Ron Bockbrader and Dave

HenryBacteriology mdash Jim Guenther Robert

Temple and Stan EichelbergerParasitology mdash Scott Anderson and

Dave Farris Physiology and Pharmacology mdash Frank

Pipers and Steve KurtzerPreventive Medicine mdash Tom Cummins

and Dick Smolen Library mdash Sharon Schumann and Ken

Clever

Pathology mdash Tom Burke Mike Wanskyand Bruce McCullough

Small Animal Medicine mdash Bill Sayle andTed Panhuis

Small Animal Surgery mdash Dick Soldner Ralph Urmson and Doug Cbatney

Large Animal Medicine mdash Harold Fershyguson Bill Reynolds and Fred Adams

Large Animal Surgery mdash Dale Duerr Dick Dailey and Dave McDonald

Ambulatory mdash James Booth Ames Alshylen and Gary Bowman

Clinical Pathology mdash Charles McConshynell Jack Zines and Bill Sternecker

Radiology mdash James Syler and Victoria Voith Some of the departmental programs

presented were Evaluation of Various Physiological Parameters Studies on Gnotobiotic Animals The Physical Exshyamination Basic Surgical Equipment Preparation and Common Surgical Sitshyuations Foaling Rumenotomy and GasAnesthesia Equipment

The majority of those attending Pre-Vet Day seemed to be quite interestedand awed by the varied knowledge andthe professional qualifications of the veterinarian

Lunch was served at both Sisson Hall and the Clinic by the Pre-Vet Club Much work was required and several problems had to be overcome to presentto the public the true picture of veterinshyary medicine (Not the least of these problems was presenting the professionshyal aspects of veterinary medicine in a garage) Everyone who worked so hard to present Pre-Vet Day 1967 deshyserves hearty congratulations

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REPORT ON SPEAKERS BUREAUBy RICHARD WHIPPS Vet Med IV This year the Speakers Bureau of

the AVMA Student Chapter has enshyjoyed its most successful year to date The Speakers Bureau was organizedthree years ago in an effort to inform the public of the broad scope of vetershyinary medicine Junior and senior vetshyerinary students have presented our profession to 4-H Clubs AgriculturalClubs and Survey Classes high schoolsand even to elementary school classesEach speaking engagement is usually handled by a team consisting of one senior and one junior with the senior student handling most of the speaking chores A stimulating question-and-anshyswer period follows almost every preshysentation

Student speakers participated in cashyreer-day programs in high schools throughout central Ohio including Coshylumbus Newark Lancaster and Censhyterburg Speakers presented mogtre specshyialized topics within the realm of vetshyerinary medicine to the Grove City Horsemasters 4-H Club the Wilmingshyton College Agricultural Club and Ag

AVMA NEWS By JUDY SAUERBREI Vet Med Ill This quarter as usual the student

chapter has been very active Pre-Vet Day (held Saturday April 15th) was a success with 510 people registering TheChiron the AVMA sponsored Colshylege of Veterinary Medicine yearbook has been mailed to the publishers and will be delivered to the student body byearly June The very active Speakers Bureau will continue to fulfill requestsfor guest speakers received throughoutthe summer New chairman of this comshymittee will be senior Tom Cummins Also this summer the Live Surgery exshyhibit which is presently at the Center of Science and Industry will be movedto Cincinnati for the Hamilton County Fair and then back to Columbus for The Ohio State Fair in August-Septemshyber

Members have enjoyed some very inshyteresting and informative programsthis quarter including a fine talk by ColScott Radcliff of the Ohio State Patrol

Survey classes and the Central Ohio Cocker Spaniel Club Topics for discusshysion included careers in veterinary medshyicine latest theories and developments in our profession various aspects ofveterinary preventive medicine and therole of the veterinarian in aerospace medicine The record for the longest distance traveled by student speakersthis year is held by the team who spoketo the Beta Beta Beta biological honorshyary of Marietta College

As chairman of the Speakers Bushyreau I would like to thank all the stushydents who served as speakers this yearEach person served his profession wellI am certain that the outreach of the Speakers Bureau will continue to grow as it presents the expanding field of veterinary medicine to the general pubshylic whose knowledge of our profession is in too many instances sadly lackingI would also like to express a specialthanks to Dr Donald Gisler of our facshyulty for giving his time and talents so that our presentations could be of the best possible quality

on Traffic Accidents and a large anishymal panel Members of this panel wereDr Albert Gabel of the OSU Veterinshyary Clinic Dr D G Miller SugarcreekDr Warren Amling London Dr Ed Kennedy Miamiville Dr Donald Moss-burger Bloomingburg Ohio

Other events for members of Student Chapter of AVMA included the Anshynual Awards Banquet on May 19th atthe Grandview Inn and the Spring Picshynic held on May 24th at Big Bear Farms

At the last meeting of the Student Chapter for Spring Quarter 1967 elecshytion of officers was held New officers for the academic year of 1967-68 will be President - Tom Hickey President-elect - Dick Hersman Vice President shyRalph Urmson Secretary - Sharon Schuman Treasurer - Bruce McCullocih These new officers have the great reshysponsibility of continuing to maintain the high standards of leadership exhibshyited by their predecessors

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Ohio State Fair Veterinary Medicine ExhibitBy DAVE ZIMMERMAN Vet Med Ill

For quite a few years the Ohio StateUniversity Student Chapter of the AVMA has presented an informative exhibit concerning veterinary medicineat the Ohio State Fair Last year this project took on a much wider scope Forthe first time live surgery was pershyformed in a modern portable surgical operating room Large pleriglass winshydows and closed circuit television enshyhanced the vantage point of the viewshying public

Again this summer the project will be presented at the Ohio State Fair Present plans call for two surgical proshycedures to be performed daily bylicensed and academy practicing veterishynarians representing their local acadeshymies with narration by students Talks

demonstrations and movies presentingthe complete and varied field of veterishynary medicine will round out the daily program

The purpose of the exhibit is to edushycate the public as to the wide rangeand high quality of service provided bythe modern veterinary clinic Althoughthis project is presented by the stushydents its aim is recognition of public and private practitioners through pubshylic exposure and education All demonshystrations will be presented in the proshyfessional and exacting way that modernveterinary medicine is practiced We feel certain that after a person has witshynessed the procedures presented he willbe much more aware of the ability posshysessed by his veterinarian

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Canine Research Projects SupportedBy The Columbus Collie Club

The Columbus Collie Club donated $3000 to the Ohio State University Vetshyerinary Medicine to be used in Canine research projects The grant was dishyvided among the following projectswhich will be conducted between June 1967 and June 1968 by seniors in the college

Richard Kight Tom Cummins Bob Smatt Dick Flinn L Joe Starcher

FULL THICKNESS BONE GRAPHS IN THE CANINE Seniors Tom Cumshymins Dick Flinn Gene Hofacre Bob Smatt Advisor Dr Richard Rudy

Full thickness bone graphs will be employed in the femur and radius of mature 25-40 pound beagle type dogsThe periosteum of the femur will be inshycised and elevated and the shaft transhysected proximally and distally and thenremoved The shaft will then be splitlongitudinally with care being taken to preserve the endosteum One-half will be discarded the other replaced in its former position The periosteum will beclosed Fixation will consist of an intrashymedullary pin and orthopedic wire Onthe anterior limb the radius will be exshyposed the periosteum split and eleshyvated A 25 cm piece of radius will then be removed Prior to this procedshyure an incision will have been made at the distal portion of the 7th rib and a

5 cm piece of rib removed with the periosteum intact This piece will be cut in half transversely The two secshytions side by side will be secured in theradial defect A Kirsthner splint andorthopedic wire will be used for fixation

The dogs will then be observed for eight weeks and the fracture sites willbe evaluated as to the strength and stashybility of the union

During the course of the study the dogs will be handled as much like acshytual clinical cases as possible Strict aseptic procedures will be carried out and the dogs will be adequately medishycated as would a clinical case

If shown to be successful the typeof graph described above may be utilshyized clinically in restoration of the conshytinuity of bones too severely fractured to be reduced by simpler and convenshytional techniques

QUANTITATIVE DETERMINAshyTION OF CORTICOSTEROIDS PROshyDUCED BY THE ADRENAL CORshyTEX Senior L Joe Starcher Advisshyors Dr Philip W Murdick Dr Edshyward F Donovan

From the results of this project it ishoped that the normal canine corticosshyteroid levels can be determined and a routine testing procedure established Itis possible that such a test would be asuseful as the blood test urinalysis andfecal examination when a complete exshyamination of a dog is done

A METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE RESIN-SPONGE TRIIODOTHROshyNINE UPTAKE TECHNIQUE IN DEshyTECTING THYROID FUNCTION OF THE DOG Senior Victoria L Voith Advisor Dr Walter Lobe

This experiment entails keeping twelve dogs-four in euthyroid four in hypothyroid and four in hyperthyroid states Blood samples will be drawn bishyweekly for three weeks and used to pershyform the resin-sponge triiodothyronine uptake test When radioactive iodine labeled triiodothyronine (T-3) is added

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to a serum sample it first saturates the It is unlikely although possible that unoccupied thyroid-binding sites on the practitioner will perform this tech-Thyroid Binding Protein (TBP) The nique himself but the blood sample remaining T-3 is taken up by the resin- could easily be sent to a laboratory sponge added to the sample The total equipped to perform such a test amount of T-3 is determined Then afshyter incubation the resin-sponge is CLINICAL EVALUATION OF RE-rinsed free of serum and with it the T-3 NAL F U N C T I O N Senior Dick bound to TBP The radioactivity re- Knight Advisor Dr Robert Candon maining in the resin-sponge is then de- The present clinical laboratory parashytermined The percent of radioactive meters for evaluation of renal function T-3 taken up by the resin-sponge is in- are incomplete and poorly understoodversely proportional to the unsaturated The dog that has renal impairment butsites on the TBG and directly propor- does not show frank clinical evidence of tional to the amount of endogenous thy- impairment is the animal that needs roxine and triiodothyronine circulating clinical outlines This animal is the one

The invitro technique used in this ex- that can be helped the most with earlyperiment has been shown to be an ac- therapy andor prophylactic regimes curate and safe method of assessing The purpose of the study is to define thyroid function in human beings The and evaluate clinical parameters for theexperiment is designed to determine the evaluations of glomerular filtration ratevalidity of this test in detection of the renal plasma flow tubular maximum canine thyroid function Since this tech- and sodium-potassium excretion in nique employs the use of serum and nephretic dogs Then if possible the de-does not expose the dog to radioactive velopment of a simple clinical test to iodine it has the possibilities of becom- accomplish these procedures will be atshying of diagnostic use to the practitioner tempted

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NIH HEART GRANTBy FRANK PIPERS Vet Med Ill

Mutual interest on the part of a numshyber of research groups on campus conshyceived the idea of synthesizing capabilishyties and efforts with the end result beshying the formation and aquisition of an NIH grant entitled Biology of the Heart Participating in this endeavor are the Department of Veterinary Physhysiology College of Veterinary Medicineand the Departments of Physiology Medicine and Pathology College of Medicine

The two co-principal directors are Drs Smith and Warren There is a six man Steering Committee and approxishymately 20 to 25 professional efforts with an additional 15 to 20 man technical staff

The overall objective is to study allaspects of the normal and failing heartThe principle endeavors of this project will be

1) ultra microscopy of the failing heart

2) metabolism of the failing rat heart

3) bloodflow to visera and peripheral circulation

4) hemodynamics of the horse5) cardiac and renal function in dogs

with heart disease 6) ventricular and atrial activation

processes in cattle 7) uses of the computer in analyzing

electrocardiographic data of varshyious species

The nucleus of the microscopic workis at Starling Loving Hall where thereis an electron microscope The nucleus for macroscopic experimentation is at

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Sisson Hall where the installation of a $200000 facility has just been comshypleted The facility consists of

1) office space and a conference room2) two modern biochemistry laborashy

tories 3) One general research laboratory 4) a catheterization laboratory with

an adjoining dark room5) large animal laboratory with tilt-

table 6) a laboratory animal lab7) large walk-in refrigerator8) small animal holding quarters9) large animal holding quarters

10) mobile laboratory (which contains2 labs equipment area large anishymal holding stocks and a dark room)

The facilities encompass 6000 squarefeet and are located in the southern half of the basement of Sisson Hall

Although this is an interdisciplinary effort there are obvious advantages toour College

1) It will bring equipment and techshynology to our school

2) It will aid in training and teachshying of graduate veterinarians

3) We can glean information from research to apply to a clinical medium

4) We will have prestige from the success of the faculty

5) We should have the ability to atshytract high quality people to comeand study at our College

We are very proud of the developshyment of this facility and we wish it well

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Such encouragement of risky do-it-yourself client competition is not a factor when you use EVA

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OMEGA TAU SIGAAA NEWS By RONALD H BOCKBRADER

For all those non believers it can honshyestly be said that Spring has finally arshyrived in all its splendor despite severalfalse attempts to break loose from Winshyters tight grasp Needless to say the brothers of Omega Tau Sigma were eagerly awaiting Spring and met it with great enthusiasm

The first major item of business Spring quarter was the election of ofshyficers for the coming year Those elected were as follows

PresidentmdashDon Heagren Vice PresidentmdashAllen Bryant SecretarymdashRon Bockbrader TreasurermdashRich Hersman Assistant TreasurermdashTom Isaac

THE CHIRONBy DON SANDERS Vet Med Ill

This last year the Student Chapter ofthe AVMA voted to establish a yearshybook for the College of Veterinary Medshyicine The yearbook was named The Chiron The name refers to the centaur in Greek mythology who was renownedfor his skill in Medicine

The yearbook was launched by Florshyence Rutledge as editor Penalized byinexperience and a late start Miss Rutshyledge and the staff managed to meet the

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Sergeant-at-ArmsmdashJerry WolfParliamentarianmdashRalph Urmson ChaplainmdashRalph Broshes Rush ChairmanmdashJim Cobb Social ChairmenmdashJoe Starcher

Dave MacDonald Ron Conklin

House ManagermdashCharles Steinman The Brothers of Omega Tau Sigma

are sincere in thanking the retiring ofshyficers after an outstanding year and a job well done

After a fine intramural basketball season which netted a championship troshyphy OTS has again offered its chalshylenge in intramural events with severaltop softball teams

Socially Spring Quarter was again climaxed by the fabulous Senior Send-off and we say that modestly Of coursethe annual cocktail party at the house for Seniors only preceded the evening affair The party was held at Winding Hollow Country Club and exemplified the theme Regal Elegance A delishycious buffet dinner and drinks followed by dancing to Rick Monroes Quintet truly made Senior Sendoff the best everBrothers Grossi and Gurevitz chairshymen of the event can be commended for their efforts

As Spring Quarter draws to a close and the Seniors depart in pursuit of their goals we sincerely wish the best to them and hope that the Fraternityhas been and will continue to be a reshywarding and enjoyable experience for them

deadline for the publishers This yearshybook a true accomplishment for the editor and her staff will come off the press during the first part of June A few extra copies will be printed in case any alumni wish to purchase copies ($700)

Work has already begun on next years Chiron with Don Sanders as theincoming editor Anyone interested in a copy of the Chiron or interested in adshyvertising in next years issue pleasewrite to Don Sanders at the OSU Vetshyerinary Clinic 2578 Kenney Road Coshylumbus Ohio

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ALPHA PSI NEWS

ALPHA PSI By JAY FORSYTH Vet Med II

At the last meeting of the past quarshyter officers for the coming year were elected Jim Syler who did an outstandshying job as last years president was given the honor of serving another year Tom Burke was elected Vice Presshyident Tom Adams will serve as recordshying secretary Mike Snyder the new treasurer will be aided by Ron Montshygomery as assistant treasurer Dick

JIM ROSS (Continued from page 17)

University In the summer of 1966 he attended graduate school at Baylor Unishyversity College of Medicine Houston Texas

Dr Ross will receive his Master of Science degree in June of 1967 His thesis is entitled Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog Clinical and Physioshylogical Features

Beginning on July 1st 1967 Dr Rosswill be a member of the faculty at Bay-lor University College of Medicine with joint appointments in the departshyments of Physiology and Surgery

While an undergraduate student DrRoss became a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Omega Tau Sigma social frashyternities and of Phi Eta Sigma Gam-

Knight will serve as chief censor Jay Forsyth will act as corresponding secshyretary and Ed Stoughton will managethe house

Spring Quarter started off in greatstyle with a house party Alpha Psi thencombined with OTS and had a great time at Bridgeview Country Club

The speakers meeting for the past quarter included Dr R C Smith who spoke on the problems of setting upand running your own private practiceand Mr Joseph A Fodey Jr of CityNational Bank who spoke to the chapshyter about bankings relationship to theprofessional man

In the past two quarters the athleticteams of Alpha Psi have done well Boththe Freshmen and Sophomores broughthome trophies for their division titles Tuesday and Friday baseball squads arewarming up for title hopes after winshyning their league play despite the losses of Herb Betts with a broken foot and Brad Smith with a dislocated finshyger

Other spring events of Alpha Psi inshycluded the freshman welcome picnic onMay 15 1967 The sharp wit of Dr D0 Jones and the barbequed chicken were enjoyed by all The high point ofspring quarter was Senior Sendoff heldon May 26 1967 at the Hospitality Innat which the yearly awards were preshysented

ma Sigma Delta and Phi Zeta honorshyaries

Dr Ross will have a publication apshypearing in the Current VeterinaryTherapy 1967 (in press) entitled Dishyagnosis and Surgical Correction of Pashytent Ductus Arteriosus and Pulmonic Stenosis in the Dog On March 29th 1967 Dr Ross talked to the Northwesshytern OVMA on the subject Heart disease in small animal medicine He alshyso will talk on Diagnosis and SurgicalCorrection of the Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog at the National AVMA meeting in Dallas Texas in July of this year

Dr Ross is married He has a daughshyter Stephanie and his wife Marcia isexpecting a new arrival in June

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AVAAA FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Three members of the Junior Class

have been awarded AVMA grants for research in areas of veterinary medishycine Jon Bernstein is investigating speshycific renal and cardiovascular problemsHis sponsor Dr Robert Hamlin and the National Institute of Health are furnishing the necessary materials Usshying a radio-isotope technique Bernsteinwill be studying renal function of dogs in congestive heart failure He will deshytermine glomerular filtration rate renalblood flow and electrolyte excretion patterns before and after digitalization

Robert Stuhlman under the sponsorshyship of Dr Walter Loeb is using his horse His advisors are Dr Albert Gabel grant to develop a practical test which and Dr R B Heath Parameters monishyis diagnostic for the presence of hepa- tored will include arterial and venous

oxygen carbon dioxide and blood pH tocellular damage and its extent The respiratory rate and depth (pneumoshybasis of the test involves demonstrating graph) systolic and diastolic blood arginase activity with constant results pressures pulse rate and electrocardio-Roy Zinn will compare the effects of gram The ultimate goal of the project

succmylcholine alone and promazine is to evaluate the safety of intravenouswith succinylcholine on the cardiovascu- succinylcholine as an agent for casting lar and respiratory systems of the and restraint of the horse

QRowth bull gestationLactation

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Youre The DoctorBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

A female spayed basset hound IV2 years old was presented for rabies imshymunization with 5 ml of phenolized rashybies vaccine Five days later she was reshyturned in a semi-comatous condition The owner stated that her appetite waspoor ever since her vaccination On thisparticular morning she refused to rise and could not walk when forced to rise Thorough questioning eliminated the possible ingestion of any toxin

On physical examination the dog wasnon-responsive to stimuli Her anal sphincter was relaxed her pupils weremiotic and her temperature was 95deg The dog had a respiration rate of 40 perminute her heart rate was 30 per minshyute Hydration appeared normal but the dogs extremities were extremely cold Her urinary bladder was emptyand no urine could be obtained by cathshyeterization Peripheral lymph nodes were not enlarged nor were there any enlargements on abdominal palpation

The laboratory work done on the dogshowed that she had a PCV of 50 WBC of 7800 with 36 segs 7 non-segs 50 lymphs and 7 eos Her BUN was 147

mg100 ml creatinine was 6 mg100 ml Na was 131 meqL Cl was 96 meq L and K was 93 meqL Renal blood flow was 68 mlmin

The dog was given extensive treatshyment while hospitalized including perishytoneal dialysis She showed marked imshyprovement and so was sent home with medication seven days after admission Two days after dismissal the dog died

What is your diagnosis Doctor Answer on page 44

UPJOHN AWARDS Dale Duer was presented the Upjohn

Award for the most outstanding seniorin large animal medicine Dale is marshyried and is a member of the A V M A and Omega Tau Sigma Upon graduashytion Dale plans to enter large animal practice in Pennsylvania

Receiving the Upjohn Award for the most outstanding senior in small anishymal medicine was Guy Lockwood Guy is married and a member of the A V M A Omega Tau Sigma and Phi ZetaHe will be entering the U S Army Vetshyerinary Corps upon graduation

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Herd Health Management By JOHN C LEITE Vet Med IV PHILLIP A LINERODE DVM PhD

Herd Health Management is a totalapproach to large animal veterinarymedicine It combines into one programthe principles of preventive medicine and clinical medicine When properly apshyplied it could rejuvenate the Veterinarshyian-Farmer relationship

The herd health approach is based upon increasing a clients productivityinstead of running a salvage operationto keep him in business Ideally herd health management provides the means to secure optimum results from the entire herd The tools and techniquesused in herd health are principles ideasand experiments9 carefully and tactshyfully implemented

Since management is an integral part of the herd health approach it necessitates full cooperation of both the Veterinarian and the Farmer For this reason careful selection of clients for this approach is not only desirablebut absolutely essential Likewise the approach to secure cooperation is difshyferent for each farmer and is up to theingenuity of the Veterinarian The Farmer and the Veterinarian are not the only persons who should be inshyvolved in this approach to maximum production Often overlooked are lay people within the practice area who have special backgrounds information and talents that could help the proshygram The lay persons in this categoryare county extension agents vocationalagriculture teachers artificial insemshyination technicians local feed mill opshyerators and milking machine repair men The combined efforts of all these people can truly result in increased production and more profits for the farmer

It must be pointed out that the proshygram is long range and maximum beneshyfits cannot be gained in fewer than 5 or 6 generations in a herd Client confidence must be complete and full authority must be entrusted to the Veterinarian0 The type of operation is not important it may be dairy beef

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swine sheep or equine the principles remain the same

The contractual arrangements beshytween client and practitioner vary withthe type of program and also the geoshygraphic area and its customs Some methods that have been used are13

1 charge on a straight call basis 2 charge by the hour 3 charge by the herd 4 charge for total herd work and

consultation to be done in a giventime (usually by the month or year)

5 charge a percentage of the inshycrease in net profit made by theuse of your service in herd health management

It would be a waste of time to inshyitiate a herd health program without the client being on some type of herd record keeping system For production Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) or Owner Sample (OS) recshyords could be kept with a preference for DHIA Information from producshytion records will aid greatly in detershymining individuals who are worthy of special attention When production records are combined with health recshyords they become invaluable in selectshying stock for the future Recently Morshyrow10 at Cornell University and Boyd Murray and Beck14 at Michigan State developed health records in the form of a folder with moveable colored tabs which indicate the breeding phase of each individual cow These systems however did not attempt to bring toshygether DHIA production records with health records and calf records Bishopand Linerode2 have developed a record keeping system which provides an allshyin-one record keeping system on an 8x10 inch manila folder A unique feashyture of this folder is color tabs to help the dairyman anticipate heat and to indicate the proper time to beginchallenge feeding This new system canbe used by the 1) Dairyman 2) Vetshy

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DANTAFUR(brand of nitrofurantoin)

J racheopharyngitis can lay a horse low fast keep him out of action result in important economic losses to the owner You can return the animal to peak performance quickly with Dantafurreg Administration of Dantafur promptly reverses the course of tracheopharyngitis It relieves coughing and nasal discharge returns the animal to normal breathing

In urinary tract infections Dantafur places imporshytant antibacterial concentrations in the urine within 30 minutes after administration It is effective and practically specific for the infected urinary tract resulting in dramatic cures and animals clinically and bacteriologically free from infection1

DOSAGE Dantafur mdash Tracheopharyngitis (Race Track Cough) mdash for each 225 lbs body weight adshyminister perorally an initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 5 days Urinary Tract Infections mdash for each 225 lbs body weight administer perorally an

initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 7 days and for at least 3 days after urine is sterile SUPPLIED Dantafurmdashoral suspension veterinary Each cc contains 15 mg nitrofurantoin in special suspending medium containing 10 alcohol bottles of 473 cc and 1250 cc As with any potent antibacterial agent administer with caution in cases of marked impairment of renal function safe dosage may be less than usually recommended 1 Witter R S Third Regional Conference on Nitrourans in Veterinary Medicine Atlanta Georgia January 14 1960

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erinarian 3) A I Technician and 4) the Milk Tester This system will proshyvide a means for the dairyman to keepup with his record keeping

Once adequate records are availshyable the veterinarian is ready to tackle the herd health problems In many cases changes must be gradualbecause of the inherent characteristics and attitudes of the client Divisions can be made in order to work on vashyrious aspects of the program and not all aspects need to be carried out at once Five aspects have been adopted in the Herd Health Management Proshygrams in the Wooster Ohio area

1 Mastitis Control 2 Nutrition 3 Fertility and Reproduction 4 Calf Management and Vaccination 5 SanitationThese are discussed below

1 Mastitis Control Mastitis may be defined as an inshy

flammation of the mammary gland reshysulting from the interplay of various etiologic factors their environment andthe host in question From the definishytion it may be assumed that no one causative agent is responsible for masshytitis

Degrees or clinical types of mastitiscan be recognized severe - acute mild shyacute or chronic and subclinical

The severe type can be easily recogshynized and must be treated immediatelyOne recommended treatment would be the administration of Posterior Pituishytary Extract strip out the quarters and administer Liquimycin and sulfa IV with a repeat treatment in 24 hours

The mild and subclinical forms may go unrecognized and therefore some type of screening test should be pershyformed prior to the attachment of the milking machine The most common and easiest test to run is the strip plateor strip cup but some subclinical and even the mild cases may still go unshynoticed The following more elaborate tests may be used to detect these formsof mastitis

California Mastitis Test (CMT)12

Lye Mastitis Test (LMT)4

Michigan Mastitis Test (MMT)4

Liquimycinreg Charles Pfizer amp Co New York NY

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Whiteside Test9

A Whiteside Test or a Wisconsin Mastitis Test (WMT)12 may be run on bulk tanks to pick up the presence of mastitis in the herd

Further laboratory tests can be conshyducted on sterily collected milk samshyples

Culturemdashstreaking on BAP to obshytain isolation and tentative identishyfication

Catalase Test12mdashbased on the presshyence of catalase contained in sershyum white blood cells epithelial cells colostrum and bacteria

Coagulase Testmdashused to determine Staphoylococcus pathogenicity

Mastitis caused by infestious organshyism can be attributed almost 100 to Streptococcus agalactiia and Staphyshylococcus It has been said that the greatest economic loss is due to Streptococcus agalactiia This organism is easily diagnosed by the use of the Hotis Test and with proper treatment can be eliminated in the cow All cows should be tested once a montih for three months During this period the cows should be arranged in a milking seshyquence according to the results of the test The animals producing a positive test are treated by intramammary inshyfusion of 400000 units of penicillin in18cc of sterile distilled water into each quarter One treatment is usually sufshyficient to eradicate the organism The tests are then conducted every three months for the remainder of he yearand if the herd is free of the organismthey are then conducted at 6 month inshytervals1 To back a positive Hotis Testa Camp Test is run in the laboratory to prove or rule out the presence of a partial hemolizing agent

If Staphylococcus is suspected or proven the only treatment which may prove to be satisfactory is systemic treatment because of the location and pathogenic nature of the organism

Needless to say any cow with masshytitis should be placed last in the milkshying line and extra special sanitary preshycautions taken with her and the equipshyment A cow that fails to respond to treatment or has an irreversible fibshyrotic udder should be culled

Infective agents are not the only etiology for mastitis and the practionshy

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er must maintain a keen eye to locate the other causes or possible causes and then have the condition corrected Othshyer etiologies may be improper milking injured teats and environmental 2 Nutrition

Good nutrition is an obvious and efshyfective tool for the progressive Veterishynarian to use in maintaining high proshyducers in a herd In general over half of the animal deaths are due to malnushytrition because inadequate nutrition will decrease the animals resistance to disshyease Nutrition is the cornerstone of success in herd health management and is often an overlooked factor in infertility It has been incriminated in fetal resorption and anestrus or failure to ovulate5

The basic approach would be to work out average requirements for the herd in digestible protein and Total Digestshyible Nutrients (TDN) A ration comshyposed of corn to supply TDN and soy bean oil meal to supply protein can fulfill the respective requirements and is economical Another rich source of protein is urea which can safely be used up to 3 of the ration It is availshyable in two forms 262 and 285 protein equivalents It is extremely cheap as compared to SBOM and the amount of protein derived from it A word of caution must be inserted here and that is to check with your local feed mill to see if they have the capashycity to mix urea into a ration Trace mineralized salt should be fed free choice

Forages and home grown grains should be tested periodically because it has been found that they may be below estimated textbook values3-5 depending on the type and condition of the growshying season

3 Fertility and Reproduction Fertility checks proper breeding and

a complete obstetrical program in the herd attempt to reach a goal of one calf per year from each cow As menshytioned before nutrition is a prime facshytor in fertility Once it is adequate a successful reproductive program can be launched

A cow should be palpated rectally 30 to 45 days after freshening to deshy

termine if uterine pathology is present or if the animal is ready to be bred on the next heat If pathology is present as indicated by an enlarged flaccid uterus that lacks tone the uterus should be infused with 4 million units of penicillin and 5 grams streptomycin combination mixed with 20cc of Utoshynex (2 mgm ethinyl estradiol and 20 mgm nitrofurathiazide) A cow that is bred on the heat after palpation would place the breeding date approximately 60 days after freshening The cow is then checked at 45-60 days after breedshying to determine if conception has ocshycurred and again prior to being dried off to detect any possible fetal resorpshytion or mummification5 The 45-60 day post breeding check is done to minimize lost time if conception did not occur on the initial breeding or if the fershytilized ova was lost and subsequent heat periods were missed

To aid the student and the clinician in palpating an approximate set of measurements of the whole bulge of the amniotic sac has been proposed

hens egg 40 days baseball 50 days softball 60 days volleyball 70 days basketball 80 days

Additional criteria can be used to apshyproximate the length of the pregnancy

35-60 days mdash slipping of the fetal membranes

85-90 days mdash fremitis of the midshydle uterine artery

110-120 days mdash presence of cotelyshydons

When following a regular program of rectal palpation abnormal conditions can be detected before they become irshyreversible Regular rectal palpation will clearly define the ovarian activity With this method of diagnosis expensive problem cows can be culled from the milk line or treated in an attempt to correct the difficulty In this program an accurate up to date set of records is essential

4 Calf Management and Vaccination This phase begins before the calf is

dropped The cow should be moved to a special maternity stall which is built to accommodate one cow very comfortshyably The calving stalls should be

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cleaned and disinfected between occushypants contain adequate clean bedding have good drainage be warm and have good ventilation The bedding should be changed periodically during the occupants tenure When the calf is dropped the umbilicus should be swabbed with a tincture of iodine and the fetal membranes removed before the cow can ingest them By performshying these simple tasks the new born has been given a much greater chance for survival When the time arrives for the calf to be separated from its mother it should be moved to an inshydividual calf stall When calves are pastthe stage of suckling one another theycan then be moved to clean well bedded and ventilated quarters which will acshycommodate several calves Nutrition is often overlooked in the calf crop in that they are usually fed the formushylated ration of the milking string A separate ration should be calculated forthe calves which is much higher in proshytein to accommodate fast growth The development of the calf during this period will have a direct influence onceshe enters the milk line Before reachshying the age of four months (120 days) calves are vaccinated for Brucellosis TB tested dehorned and have supershynumary teats removed If the owner so desires the calves may be vaccishynated for IBR and BVD at this time

The calf management program proshyvides a total health effort to improve the future milk string of the operashytion The program when followed dilishygently should provide for excellent calf survival with losses less than 1

5 Sanitation Sanitation should be the center of a

herd health program or the hub aroundwhich the other four aspects of the program revolve however it is often the most overlooked or neglected pracshytice in operations today It not only includes the premises but also theanimals and equipment

Junk and trash lying around the farm and especially around the barn and grain storage areas promote rats and mice Junk trash dirt cobwebs inside the barn present physical hazshyards to the animals This material is also a potential health hazard for it may provide the reservoir that disease

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needs in order to be propagated Improper drainage in the stall area

exercise lot and loafing shed promotethe accumulation of urine and feces and increase the possibility of animal foot problems and other health probshylems Manure is always a disposal probshylem but it must be cleaned daily fromthese areas and not allowd to accumushylate Bedding material must be changedfrequently if the animal urinates or dencates within the resting space Cowson which feces are allowed to accumushylate are health hazards to the herd and show a sign of poor management These cows should be washed and brushed to clean this material from their body

The housing and work areas must have adequate lighting so that the opshyerator and the Veterinarian may havemore ideal conditions in which to work More problem areas can be seen in a well lighted area than in a dark or dimly lit area Ventilation should be perfect so as to promote a healthy atshymosphere for the animals and lessen the possibility of money being lost due to respiratory diseases The principlesof admitting ample fresh air high andremoving the tainted air low will rid the area of moisture and foul ammonia fumes from urine

When designing the ventilation sysshytem it must be remembered that when admitting the fresh air the inlets mustbe planned so that there is one inlet of 60 sq in for every 3i2 - 1000 anishymal units The inlets can be placed at various places around the barn or stable area To eject the air a flue should beconsidered only if the distance from the highest point on the barn roof to the ground is 30 ft or more7 The flue size will be determined by the volume of the area to be evacuated It is imshyportant to place a door in the flue nearthe ceiling This door can be opened inthe summer months to aid in movingthe hot air which accumulates near the ceiling If the distance from the highshyest point on the barn roof to the groundis less than 30 ft a mechanical type system must be employed to evacuate the area The same principle applies in the mechanical systemmdashenter the fresh air high and exit the stale air low The number of mechanical units

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needed should be sufficient to provide a complete change of air six times every hour Sanitation also includes themilking parlor the equipment used and the technique employed in the acshytual milking The incidence of mastitis can increase when strict sanitary proshycedures are not adhered to The udder and especially the teats should be washed thoroughly with a mild soap and one of the iodine antiseptic prepshyarations This procedure not only stimushylates milk let down but reduces the possibility of spreading bacteria and contaminating the milk or other udshyders The inflation cups should be dipped into an iodine preparation inshysuring that the whole cup has been cleansed The cups then should be placed on the teat (after a strip plate test has been run) without allowingthem to touch the ground or other obshyjects such as bedding The wash waterand the water used to dip the teat cupsshould be changed at fifteen cow in-

This article is submitted due to interest shown by many and with the firm belief that Herd Health Management is the future of large anishymal practice The article was condensed from a paper prepared by Jack Leite for Dr Line-rode as part of the requirement for VeterinaryPreventive Medicine 740 Much of what is outshylined in this article comes from experience gained on field trips to Wooster Ohio area where herd health management programs are being conducted in five private dairy herds with the cooperation and participation of Drs Don Noah and Robert Mairs

1 A Syllabus on the Bovine Mammary Gland in Health amp Disease Department of Clinishycal Pathology School of Veterinary Medishycine University of California Davis Calishyfornia Schalm OW

2 Bishop J P amp Linerode PA Dairy Herd Health Management Record System Ohio State University 1967

3 Coppock CE amp Tyrell HE Feeding Recshyommendations for Lactating Cows Modern Veterinary Practice vol 48 1 January 1967

4 Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio

3 Drewry GH The Total Program Approachto Herd Health Management Modern Vetshyerinary Practice vol 48 2 February 1967

6 Guss Samuel B Milking Machines and Mastitis Modern Veterinary Practice vol 45 12 October 15 1964

7 Helwig John H Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinshyary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Personal Communication

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tervals throughout the milking proshycedure

The herd health management proshygram does not eliminate the emergencycalls The practitioner should be preshypared for them but the program shouldreduce the frequency of such calls andimproves the environment in which theVeterinarian must work Herd Health Management allows the farmer to proshyduce the greatest quantity of his proshyduct at the highest quality for the least cost A guideline in establishing a herd health program entitled Proshygramming Herd Health can be obshytained from Veterinary Practitioners Counseling Service VM Publishing Inc 144 N Nettleton Street Bonner Springs Kansas This aid to the pracshytitioner is available for Beef or Dairy operations at a nominal fee and may be a worth while investment for any one thinking of doing herd health work

8 Linerode Phillip A Department of Vetershyinary Preventative Medicine College of Vetshyerinary Medicine The Ohio State Universishyty Personal Communication

9 Modern Veterinary Practice vol 15 12 October 15 1964 p 8-62

10 Morrow DA Herd Health Records Corshynell University

11 Rice RE Trends in Large Animal Pracshytice Norden News vol 41 3 1966

12 US Department of Health Education and Welfare Screening Tests for Detection of Abnormal Milk 1965

13 Steere James H Modern Veterinary Pracshytice Reference and Data Service Large Anishymal 4 p A-8-8

14 Veterinary Clinic amp Dairy Dept Cooperashytive Extension Service Michigan State Unishyversity East Lansing Michigan

15 Woelffer EA Modern Veterinary Practice Reference and Data Service Large Animal 4 p A-8-19

YOURE THE DOCTOR (Continued)

Answer This dog had adrenal hyposhycortism or Addisons Disease The diagshynosis was confirmed by performing theThorn Test The preinjection samplecontained 1765 eoscu mm Two hoursafter the injection of ACTH the samshyple contained 1468 eoscu mm After four hours the sample contained 1815eoscu mm Necropsy confirmed thatthe dog had had adrenal hypocortisni

THE SPECULUM

Doctor Wyman has recently pub- Doctor Wyman will be working on a lished a paper entitled Glaucoma Di- new congenital hereditary ocular dishyagnosis and Therapy which appeared in the Auburn Veterinarian sease in the Basenji

VETERINARY COLLEGEACQUIRES BUSINESS OFFICER

Mr G Darwin Cunningham was asshysigned to the College of VeterinaryMedicine on March 14 as Business Ofshyficer

Dr Gordon B Carson Vice President for Business and Finance made the asshysignment as part of a program to proshyvide assistance to the Deans of the mashyjor colleges on campus Although MrCunningham remains a member of DrCarsons staff his primary responsibilishyties are to assist the College of Veterinshyary Medicine in fiscal matters and in administration and business proceduresHe will maintain a full time office in USS Rochester in Korea This three Sisson Hall year tour of duty was completed as Reg-

A native of New London Ohio Mr imental Commander Recruit TrainingCunningham received a bachelors de- Command San Diego California Curshygree from Ohio University summa cum rently a Lieutenant Commander he is laude and was elected to Phi Beta a member of Naval Reserve Officers Kappa Psi Chi and Phi Eta Sigma School 4-5 Columbus

He served as a naval officer in World Prior to joining The Ohio State Uni-War II as a member of Admiral Hal- versity Mr Cunningham was supervisshyseys Third Fleet Staff and was pres- or of Forecasting and Analysis Genershyent at the Japanese surrender on the al Dynamics Corporation San Diego USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay He con- California During his ten years with tinued active in the Naval Reserve as the company he was a member of theExecutive Officer of a Surface Division division which activated the first In-and returned to active duty as Assistant tercontinental Ballistic Missile launch-Operations Officer of the heavy cruiser ing sites in the United States

Financial Security Through Professional Financial Planning

James W Morris Graduate-Professional Consultant

1500 West Third Avenue Columbus Ohio Phone 486-9401 Representing Continental Assurance Co Chicago Illinois

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DR THOMAS BIBB Dr Thomas L Bibb received his BS

in Animal Husbandry from Virginia Tech in 1958 He received his DVM from the Ohio State University in 1962While attending OSU Dr Bibb was amember of Omega Tau Sigma and PhiZeta

After graduation Dr Bibb went to Winchester Virginia where he was in a three man mixed practice doing mostly large animal work for three years He then went to Virginia Tech as the clinician for the University and experiment station herds and flocks and was also a member of the Veterinary Science Department He took a two

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year leave of absence in July 1966 tocome back to OSU and pursue a MSdegree in Veterinary Medicine in thearea of large animal reproduction DrBibb hopes by the Summer of 1968 tohave finished his work and return to Virginia Tech

Dr Bibb is married to the former Susan Bierer of Winchester Virginia They have no children

Dr Bibb is a member of the AVMA the VVMA the OVMA the Amerishycan Society of Animal Science the American Society for the Study ot Breeding Soundness and the Southeastshyern Society for the Study of Breeding Soundness

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THE

COLLEGE

DR JAMES N ROSS JR Dr Ross was born in Akron Ohio

on December 18th 1940 He graduatedfrom Norwalk High School as valedicshytorian in 1958 From 1958 to 1960 he attended DePauw University in Green-castle Indiana where he was a Rector Scholar He graduated in 1960

In the Fall of 1960 Dr Ross entered the College of Agriculture at The OhioState University From February to September of 1961 he was an exchangestudent at Freiberg University Freishyberg iBr Germany

From Fall 1961 to Spring 1965 whenhe received his DVM he attended the

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College of Veterinary Medicine at TheOhio State University He was a research assistant in the Department ofPhysiology from 1962 to 1965

In the summer of 1963 Dr Ross worked for COSTEP in the US Public Health Service studying a survey of heart disease in horses In the summer of 1964 he also worked for COSTEP but this time he was stationed at the Armed Forces Institute Of Pathology in Washington DC studying patholshyogy in horses hearts

Since 1965 Dr Ross has been in the Graduate School as a NIH cardiologytrainee in the Department on Physioloshygy and Pharmacology at The Ohio State

(Continued on page 36)

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DR ARTHUR I SWAN Dr Arthur I Swan graduated from

the Royal Veterinary College Universishyty of London England in 1953

Following graduation Dr Swan spent four years in mixed general pracshytice He then joined the staff of the Wellcome Foundation Research Laborashytories His work there was connected with anaerobic vaccine production and research His duties included working at a large equine stud that was conshycerned with antisera production Later Dr Swan was transferred to the Well-come Veterinary Research Station for a period of two years At the Research

Station he spent his time working on chemotheraputic testing in large and small animals

In 1963 Dr Swan was appointed to the Animal Pathology Division of theCanadian Federal Department of Agrishyculture Here his duties were in the Veterinary Microbiological Diagnostic and Research Departments

On May 8 1967 Dr Swan joined theDepartment of Veterinary Clinical Pathology of the Ohio State UniversityCollege of Veterinary Medicine He willbe working as a graduate teaching asshysociate in the microbiology laboratory

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1967 GRADUATING SENIORSBy DORTHEA LOWER amp JOSEPH WAGNER Vet Med IV

The seniors who are graduating this June are listed as follows along with degrees activishyties and expected location

Michael R Andrews 3958 Halsey PlaceColumbus OhioFt McPhersonAtlanta GeorgiaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

Donald W- Barton PO Box 365 Hamden OhioHamden-Vinton County

Ohio Mixed Practice AVMA

Richard E Bernard 2233 Arlington AveColumbus OhioDavis-Monthan AFB Tuscon ArizonaUSAF AVMA Alpha Psi

Paul BinnigRD 2 Minerva Ohio 44657Minerva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Alpha Psi

Asst Treas Treas

John Philip BishopMilford Center OhioUniversity of the SouthDept of AgronomyBahia Blanca ArgentinaPurdue Fellow-Internship

in foreign agriculturaldevelopment

AVMA OTS

Robert R Blease Upper Ferry RoadTrenton N JAVMA Alpha Psi

Jack Bonham 5165 Penny PikeSpringfield OhioPublic Health - City of

SpringfieldAVMA

James Booth640 Forest AveZanesville OhioAVMA OTS

Clinic Intern

Gary L Bowman333 S Market Street Loudonville OhioAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

Eugene M Breznock21129 Westwood Rd Fairview Park 26 OhioAVMA Phi Zeta

Melvin Butler Normantown W VaBuckeye Veterinary ClinicPO Box 476 Buckeye ArizonaMixed Practice AVMA

Richard S Dailey614 Jefferson Avenue Charles Town W VaBrentwood Veterinary

HospitalPortsmouth VirginiaSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Clinic Intern

Louis Diluzio 3955 West Sprague RoadNorth Royalton Ohio

44133 Small Animal Practice AVMA

Dale L DuerrRoute 1Bolivar Ohio 44612Quakertown Animal

Hospital40 S 11th St Quakertown Pa 18951Mixed Practice AVMA OTS

Speculum Large AnimalClinician Award

James L Ehler ER Squibb

Pharmaceuticals Animal Products Services New Brunswick New

JerseyAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day

SPRING 1967

Rodney FergusonRD 3East Liverpool OhioTexas A amp M University-Resident Large Animal

Clinics AVMA OTS Phi Zeta

Ronald J Frank 4430 Tindall St NWWashington DC 20016Hancock Air Base Syracuse NY 13225AVMA OTS

Dorothea L Freitas Far Hills NJ 07931360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York N Y 10021Internship - Animal

Medical Center AVMA Secy Phi Zeta

Speculum Co-editorClass Secy

Robert A Fritz Sylvania RoadToledo Ohio654 Stimmelmdash14 Columbus Ohio 43223USAF in MichiganAVMA OTS Treas

Speculum Assoc EditorCheron PhotographyEditor

Joseph Grossi JrMeadowbrook Manor Wintersville OhioMontgomery Animal

Hospital7700 Montgomery RoadCincinnati OhioAVMA OTS Class

Secy

Richard H Gurevitz 269-4 N Chesterfield Rd Columbus Ohio 43209Becher Animal HospitalColumbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Awards

Banquet ChairmanOTS Social ChairmanPledge Master GammaClass Pres Award

Dennis D HardyEden Idaho University of CaliforniaDavis California Internship Large Animal

Med amp Sur AVMA

James Hatfield D D 9

Bethel Ohio 45106AVMA

Thomas D HeadingSo Missouri Ave Wellston OhioPaine Air Field Everett WashingtonUSAF AVMA OTS

Daniel R Helvoigt1014 Fremont St Dover Ohio Rt 3 Shippensburg Pa90 Dairy PracticeAVMA Mark Morris

Fellow

William E Hendricks 100 E 6th Street West Lafayette OhioChicago 111 US ArmyAVMA OTS

Robert Henry R 3 Cardington Ohio 43315Bunker Hill Animal

Hospital6220 Jefferson Rd Ashtabula OhioMixed Practice AVMA Class Pres

Ron Jenne 1125 Eastgate RdToledo OBoston Mass after Nov

1567US ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

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Philip Johnson7580 Shawnee Run Rd Cincinnati Ohio656 Riverview Drive Columbus OhioLaboratory Animal

Medicine OSU AVMA

J Thomas LangRFD 1 Big Prairie OhioQuakertown Ani HospQuakertown PennsylvaniaDairy PracticeAVMA OTS

Donald R Kaeser 4871 Olentangy River RdColumbus Ohio121 Harvey AveDoylestown PaBuckingham Animal

HospitalBuckingham PennsylvaniaMixed mainly large

animal practiceAVMA OTS

Randy Kidd7629 Clark State Road Blacklick OhioMixed Practice AVMA OTS

President

Richard C Koritansky14032 GAR HighwayChardon Ohio 44024Abbotsford Veterinary

Clinic Ltd PO Box 96 Abbotsford British

Columbia CanadaLarge Animal PracticeAVMA Alpha Psi

corresponding secygtStudent Council

Dean Karl Kraus co Mr Charles OttoRoute 2 and 6 East Huron OhioTredyffrin Veterinary

Hospital1476 Lancaster Avenue Paoli Pennsylvania 19301Small Animal Practice AVMA class

rep resentati vetreasurer speakersbureau

Communications Chairman of Live Surgery Exhibit

Daniel E Lafontaine RR 1 Alvada Ohio Persidio of San Francisco San Francisco Calif US ArmyAVMA OTS

John C Leite 812 Clinton St Fremont 01877 Oakland Park Columbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Guy C Lockwood125 E Como Avenue Columbus Ohio Pentagon

Washington DC 20315Washington DCUS ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Small AnimalClinician Award

Lance O Lollini 430 Sinclair Street Yorkville OhioFt Bragg North CarolinaUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Phi

Phi Zeta

James C Lonz Route 3 Norwalk OhioYuma Test Station Yuma Arizona US ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta class treasStudent Council

E Clinton LowryForest Hill West Virginia360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York NY 10021Small Animal Internship shy

Animal Medical Center AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Co-chairman Pre-Vet Day Clinic InternClass Treas

Bruce Marhefka Kensington OhioUniversity of Minnesota shy

College of Vet MedSmall Animal Surgery shy

Instructor AVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day listening booth

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jpoundSl^

MANOREWS 0 BAKTON K BERNARD P BINNIG J BISHOP P S L E S E J B O N H A M J BOOTH G BOWMAN G- BREZNOCK MBUTLER R DAILEY

L OILUZIO D DUERR J EHLER PFERGUSON PFRANK D FREITAS RFRITZ RGUREV1TZ 0 HARDY T HATP1ELD T HEADING

S 0 HELVOIGT W HENOMCKS RHENRY PJENNE OPRATT 8SAYLE J GROSS PJOHNSON 0 KAESER RKiOD RKORITANSKY

VtCE-PRSB PRESIDENT SKt shy TREAS

0 KRAUS 0 LAF0NTA1NE JT L A N G J LEITE

COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

G U3CKW000 L LOLLINI J LONZ C lOWfOT

BMARHEfKA CMCCONNELL MMCGANNON JMEHLING L MILEY RMYERS TOWEN DPAULO J PRATT J PURVI S M R A D C U F F E C R A F L O

WRANNELLS BREYNOLDS F BUTLEDQE GRSfKORA RSOLONER JWAGNER RWHJPPS WYAKLIY MYOUSHAK M ZARNETT J ZINES

Charles T McConnell 707 Main Street Toronto OhioLewis Animal HospitalCincinnati OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Phi Zeta

Exhibit Chairman Pre-Vet Day

Mel McGannon Box 143 Windsor OhioBoyds Animal HospitalGeneva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Clinic Intern

John A Mehling 118 N Wood Street Fremont OhioCollege of Veterinary

Medicine Cornell UniversityIthaca NY Dairy Practice shy

Ambulatory ClinicianAVMA

Larry Miley R i Eaton OhioFt Snelling after Nov

15 1967 Minneapolis MinnUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Pre Vet Day guide

Richard A Myersco Richard D Myers1271 Arbor Lane Marion OhioClover Park Veterinary

HospitalTacoma WashingtonSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Terry Owen4671 Venus Road Uniontown Rd 2 Ohio Letterman General HospSurgical amp Physiological

Research San Francisco Cal US ArmyAVMA OTS Pre-

Vet Day

F Daniel Paulo RD 1 Box 100 North Jackson OhioBeale AFB CaliforniaUSAF AVMA class

representative secretaryOTS Student Council

John Carl Pratt Rankins Creek Road South Point Ohio 45680South Point OhioMixed Mostly Large

Animal PracticeAVMA

Orben Pratt Jr Rt 1 St Paris Ohio 43072Ft McArthur Los Angeles CaliforniaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

intramural sports

James Purvis 525 KensingtonMiddletown Ohio 45042Lynch Animal Hospital3410 Tytus AveMiddletown OSmall Animal PracticeAVMA OTS

Intramural SportsStudent Council

Michael Radcliffe 2587 Mt Holyoke DriveColumbus Ohio 43221San Francisco Calif Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Charles P Raflo 6267 Elbrook Avenue Cincinnati Ohio 45237Aberdeen Proving Ground

MarylandUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Recording SecyChief Censor

William T Rannells RFD 1 New Plymouth Ohio

45654New Plymouth OhioMixed Practice AVMA

Bill B ReynoldsRt 3 Box 510Clarksburg W Va Reynolds Animal HospitalClarksburg W Va Mixed Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Student CouncilPresident Master of Ceremonies at AVMA Awards Banquet

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Florence Rutledge11815 Davis Court Lakewood Ohio 44107Gasow Veterinary Hospital1521 North Woodward

Ave Birmingham Michigan

48011 Small Animal Practice AVMA Chiron Editor

Sigma Gamma DeltaBorden Award Phi Zeta

William R SayleChagrin Falls Ohio 44042Amherst Animal HospitalAmherst Ohio 44001Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Intramurals PledgeMaster PresidentStudent Council

Speculum Chiron Gamma Award ClassPresident Merck Award

Richard Soldner 3322 Maize Rd Columbus OhioSpringfield Animal

Hospital36 Warder StreetSpringfield OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS PhiZeta Exhibit Chairman

Pre-Vet Day

George R SikoraHinckley OhioRichards amp Gebauer

AFBKansas City MoUSAF Base

Veterinarian AVMA Phi Zeta

Chiron SpeculumAlpha Psi Award

Joseph L Wagner6921 Salem Road Cincinnati Ohio 45030Laboratory Animal

FacilitySchool of Medicine shy

University of NorthCarolina

Chapel Hill NorthCarolina 27514

Laboratory AnimalMedicine - Graduate School

AVMA OTS PhiZeta AVMAFoundation ScholarshipMark Morris Research

Fellow Pre-Vet Day Speculum

Co-editor

Richard D Whipps1447 Thurell Rd Columbus OhioFort Lewis Spokane WashingtonUS ArmyAVMA Chiron

Business Mgr SpeakersBureau Chairman

William Lee Yakely1309 Cross Street Dover OhioWashington State

University - College ofVeterinary Medicine

Resident AVMA Co-Chairman

Publicity amp Picnic Committee ChairmanLive Surgery ExhibitTreasurer Vice-President OTSChairman Awards

AVMA Auxiliary AwardCommittee MarkMorris Research Fellow

Michael Youshak Huntsburg OhioVeterinary PathologyOhio State University1925 Coffey RoadColumbus OhioPost-Doctoral Graduate

ProgramAVMA President

OTS Phi Zeta PhizerAward Alpha PsiAlumni Award Speculum Chiron Pre-Doctoral FellowPublicity Co-ChairmanPre-Vet Day LiveSurgery ExhibitProgram ChairmanIntramurals

Martin Harold Zarnett 862 E 17th St Brooklyn New York 11230Aqueduct RacetrackSaratoga RacewayAiken amp Camden So Carolina Equine PracticeAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day Guide Asst LiveSurgery Exhibit

Jack B Zines MC 24 Salem OhioLarge Animal PracticeAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

SPRING 1967

One of our salesmen made his first calls in this

Seems he started calling on veterinarians 40 years ago He didnt think about selling He thought about animals diseases how to cure them or prevent them Hed recomshymend this that or the other of his products that he thought would be most helpful And the veterinarians liked him Still do In fact nowadays hes calling on the sons of some of his original customers And his point of view is pretty much like that of the rest of our salesmen Their average length of service is 16 years When you stay with a company that long you dont exactly sell it Youre part of it

P I T M A N - M O O R E Division of The Dow Chemical Company Midland Michigan 48640

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PRE-VET DAY - 1967By E DAN WOLF Vet Med Ill

Informative educational professionshyally presentedmdashthese were a few of theevaluations expressed by the 510 pershysons who attended Pre-Vet Day 1967

Following registration tour groups of 25-30 people were formed and each group was led by two student guides through Sisson Hall Goss Pathology Laboratory and the Veterinary ClinicThe program consisted of informative speeches and a tour of the College Theofficial College welcome was extended byDr Walter Venzke This was followed by brief descriptions of the various fields of veterinary medicine Dr Roshybert Hamlin education and research Dr D 0 Jones public health Dr BruceWenger small animal practice Dr James Donham and Dr Clyde Purdy large animal practice Dean Krill then explained the academic and personal qualifications for admission to the colshylege

The tour of the college consisted of explanations and displays illustratingthe function of each department Thesewere prepared and presented by the stushydents and included Anatomy mdash Ron Bockbrader and Dave

HenryBacteriology mdash Jim Guenther Robert

Temple and Stan EichelbergerParasitology mdash Scott Anderson and

Dave Farris Physiology and Pharmacology mdash Frank

Pipers and Steve KurtzerPreventive Medicine mdash Tom Cummins

and Dick Smolen Library mdash Sharon Schumann and Ken

Clever

Pathology mdash Tom Burke Mike Wanskyand Bruce McCullough

Small Animal Medicine mdash Bill Sayle andTed Panhuis

Small Animal Surgery mdash Dick Soldner Ralph Urmson and Doug Cbatney

Large Animal Medicine mdash Harold Fershyguson Bill Reynolds and Fred Adams

Large Animal Surgery mdash Dale Duerr Dick Dailey and Dave McDonald

Ambulatory mdash James Booth Ames Alshylen and Gary Bowman

Clinical Pathology mdash Charles McConshynell Jack Zines and Bill Sternecker

Radiology mdash James Syler and Victoria Voith Some of the departmental programs

presented were Evaluation of Various Physiological Parameters Studies on Gnotobiotic Animals The Physical Exshyamination Basic Surgical Equipment Preparation and Common Surgical Sitshyuations Foaling Rumenotomy and GasAnesthesia Equipment

The majority of those attending Pre-Vet Day seemed to be quite interestedand awed by the varied knowledge andthe professional qualifications of the veterinarian

Lunch was served at both Sisson Hall and the Clinic by the Pre-Vet Club Much work was required and several problems had to be overcome to presentto the public the true picture of veterinshyary medicine (Not the least of these problems was presenting the professionshyal aspects of veterinary medicine in a garage) Everyone who worked so hard to present Pre-Vet Day 1967 deshyserves hearty congratulations

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REPORT ON SPEAKERS BUREAUBy RICHARD WHIPPS Vet Med IV This year the Speakers Bureau of

the AVMA Student Chapter has enshyjoyed its most successful year to date The Speakers Bureau was organizedthree years ago in an effort to inform the public of the broad scope of vetershyinary medicine Junior and senior vetshyerinary students have presented our profession to 4-H Clubs AgriculturalClubs and Survey Classes high schoolsand even to elementary school classesEach speaking engagement is usually handled by a team consisting of one senior and one junior with the senior student handling most of the speaking chores A stimulating question-and-anshyswer period follows almost every preshysentation

Student speakers participated in cashyreer-day programs in high schools throughout central Ohio including Coshylumbus Newark Lancaster and Censhyterburg Speakers presented mogtre specshyialized topics within the realm of vetshyerinary medicine to the Grove City Horsemasters 4-H Club the Wilmingshyton College Agricultural Club and Ag

AVMA NEWS By JUDY SAUERBREI Vet Med Ill This quarter as usual the student

chapter has been very active Pre-Vet Day (held Saturday April 15th) was a success with 510 people registering TheChiron the AVMA sponsored Colshylege of Veterinary Medicine yearbook has been mailed to the publishers and will be delivered to the student body byearly June The very active Speakers Bureau will continue to fulfill requestsfor guest speakers received throughoutthe summer New chairman of this comshymittee will be senior Tom Cummins Also this summer the Live Surgery exshyhibit which is presently at the Center of Science and Industry will be movedto Cincinnati for the Hamilton County Fair and then back to Columbus for The Ohio State Fair in August-Septemshyber

Members have enjoyed some very inshyteresting and informative programsthis quarter including a fine talk by ColScott Radcliff of the Ohio State Patrol

Survey classes and the Central Ohio Cocker Spaniel Club Topics for discusshysion included careers in veterinary medshyicine latest theories and developments in our profession various aspects ofveterinary preventive medicine and therole of the veterinarian in aerospace medicine The record for the longest distance traveled by student speakersthis year is held by the team who spoketo the Beta Beta Beta biological honorshyary of Marietta College

As chairman of the Speakers Bushyreau I would like to thank all the stushydents who served as speakers this yearEach person served his profession wellI am certain that the outreach of the Speakers Bureau will continue to grow as it presents the expanding field of veterinary medicine to the general pubshylic whose knowledge of our profession is in too many instances sadly lackingI would also like to express a specialthanks to Dr Donald Gisler of our facshyulty for giving his time and talents so that our presentations could be of the best possible quality

on Traffic Accidents and a large anishymal panel Members of this panel wereDr Albert Gabel of the OSU Veterinshyary Clinic Dr D G Miller SugarcreekDr Warren Amling London Dr Ed Kennedy Miamiville Dr Donald Moss-burger Bloomingburg Ohio

Other events for members of Student Chapter of AVMA included the Anshynual Awards Banquet on May 19th atthe Grandview Inn and the Spring Picshynic held on May 24th at Big Bear Farms

At the last meeting of the Student Chapter for Spring Quarter 1967 elecshytion of officers was held New officers for the academic year of 1967-68 will be President - Tom Hickey President-elect - Dick Hersman Vice President shyRalph Urmson Secretary - Sharon Schuman Treasurer - Bruce McCullocih These new officers have the great reshysponsibility of continuing to maintain the high standards of leadership exhibshyited by their predecessors

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Ohio State Fair Veterinary Medicine ExhibitBy DAVE ZIMMERMAN Vet Med Ill

For quite a few years the Ohio StateUniversity Student Chapter of the AVMA has presented an informative exhibit concerning veterinary medicineat the Ohio State Fair Last year this project took on a much wider scope Forthe first time live surgery was pershyformed in a modern portable surgical operating room Large pleriglass winshydows and closed circuit television enshyhanced the vantage point of the viewshying public

Again this summer the project will be presented at the Ohio State Fair Present plans call for two surgical proshycedures to be performed daily bylicensed and academy practicing veterishynarians representing their local acadeshymies with narration by students Talks

demonstrations and movies presentingthe complete and varied field of veterishynary medicine will round out the daily program

The purpose of the exhibit is to edushycate the public as to the wide rangeand high quality of service provided bythe modern veterinary clinic Althoughthis project is presented by the stushydents its aim is recognition of public and private practitioners through pubshylic exposure and education All demonshystrations will be presented in the proshyfessional and exacting way that modernveterinary medicine is practiced We feel certain that after a person has witshynessed the procedures presented he willbe much more aware of the ability posshysessed by his veterinarian

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Canine Research Projects SupportedBy The Columbus Collie Club

The Columbus Collie Club donated $3000 to the Ohio State University Vetshyerinary Medicine to be used in Canine research projects The grant was dishyvided among the following projectswhich will be conducted between June 1967 and June 1968 by seniors in the college

Richard Kight Tom Cummins Bob Smatt Dick Flinn L Joe Starcher

FULL THICKNESS BONE GRAPHS IN THE CANINE Seniors Tom Cumshymins Dick Flinn Gene Hofacre Bob Smatt Advisor Dr Richard Rudy

Full thickness bone graphs will be employed in the femur and radius of mature 25-40 pound beagle type dogsThe periosteum of the femur will be inshycised and elevated and the shaft transhysected proximally and distally and thenremoved The shaft will then be splitlongitudinally with care being taken to preserve the endosteum One-half will be discarded the other replaced in its former position The periosteum will beclosed Fixation will consist of an intrashymedullary pin and orthopedic wire Onthe anterior limb the radius will be exshyposed the periosteum split and eleshyvated A 25 cm piece of radius will then be removed Prior to this procedshyure an incision will have been made at the distal portion of the 7th rib and a

5 cm piece of rib removed with the periosteum intact This piece will be cut in half transversely The two secshytions side by side will be secured in theradial defect A Kirsthner splint andorthopedic wire will be used for fixation

The dogs will then be observed for eight weeks and the fracture sites willbe evaluated as to the strength and stashybility of the union

During the course of the study the dogs will be handled as much like acshytual clinical cases as possible Strict aseptic procedures will be carried out and the dogs will be adequately medishycated as would a clinical case

If shown to be successful the typeof graph described above may be utilshyized clinically in restoration of the conshytinuity of bones too severely fractured to be reduced by simpler and convenshytional techniques

QUANTITATIVE DETERMINAshyTION OF CORTICOSTEROIDS PROshyDUCED BY THE ADRENAL CORshyTEX Senior L Joe Starcher Advisshyors Dr Philip W Murdick Dr Edshyward F Donovan

From the results of this project it ishoped that the normal canine corticosshyteroid levels can be determined and a routine testing procedure established Itis possible that such a test would be asuseful as the blood test urinalysis andfecal examination when a complete exshyamination of a dog is done

A METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE RESIN-SPONGE TRIIODOTHROshyNINE UPTAKE TECHNIQUE IN DEshyTECTING THYROID FUNCTION OF THE DOG Senior Victoria L Voith Advisor Dr Walter Lobe

This experiment entails keeping twelve dogs-four in euthyroid four in hypothyroid and four in hyperthyroid states Blood samples will be drawn bishyweekly for three weeks and used to pershyform the resin-sponge triiodothyronine uptake test When radioactive iodine labeled triiodothyronine (T-3) is added

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to a serum sample it first saturates the It is unlikely although possible that unoccupied thyroid-binding sites on the practitioner will perform this tech-Thyroid Binding Protein (TBP) The nique himself but the blood sample remaining T-3 is taken up by the resin- could easily be sent to a laboratory sponge added to the sample The total equipped to perform such a test amount of T-3 is determined Then afshyter incubation the resin-sponge is CLINICAL EVALUATION OF RE-rinsed free of serum and with it the T-3 NAL F U N C T I O N Senior Dick bound to TBP The radioactivity re- Knight Advisor Dr Robert Candon maining in the resin-sponge is then de- The present clinical laboratory parashytermined The percent of radioactive meters for evaluation of renal function T-3 taken up by the resin-sponge is in- are incomplete and poorly understoodversely proportional to the unsaturated The dog that has renal impairment butsites on the TBG and directly propor- does not show frank clinical evidence of tional to the amount of endogenous thy- impairment is the animal that needs roxine and triiodothyronine circulating clinical outlines This animal is the one

The invitro technique used in this ex- that can be helped the most with earlyperiment has been shown to be an ac- therapy andor prophylactic regimes curate and safe method of assessing The purpose of the study is to define thyroid function in human beings The and evaluate clinical parameters for theexperiment is designed to determine the evaluations of glomerular filtration ratevalidity of this test in detection of the renal plasma flow tubular maximum canine thyroid function Since this tech- and sodium-potassium excretion in nique employs the use of serum and nephretic dogs Then if possible the de-does not expose the dog to radioactive velopment of a simple clinical test to iodine it has the possibilities of becom- accomplish these procedures will be atshying of diagnostic use to the practitioner tempted

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NIH HEART GRANTBy FRANK PIPERS Vet Med Ill

Mutual interest on the part of a numshyber of research groups on campus conshyceived the idea of synthesizing capabilishyties and efforts with the end result beshying the formation and aquisition of an NIH grant entitled Biology of the Heart Participating in this endeavor are the Department of Veterinary Physhysiology College of Veterinary Medicineand the Departments of Physiology Medicine and Pathology College of Medicine

The two co-principal directors are Drs Smith and Warren There is a six man Steering Committee and approxishymately 20 to 25 professional efforts with an additional 15 to 20 man technical staff

The overall objective is to study allaspects of the normal and failing heartThe principle endeavors of this project will be

1) ultra microscopy of the failing heart

2) metabolism of the failing rat heart

3) bloodflow to visera and peripheral circulation

4) hemodynamics of the horse5) cardiac and renal function in dogs

with heart disease 6) ventricular and atrial activation

processes in cattle 7) uses of the computer in analyzing

electrocardiographic data of varshyious species

The nucleus of the microscopic workis at Starling Loving Hall where thereis an electron microscope The nucleus for macroscopic experimentation is at

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Sisson Hall where the installation of a $200000 facility has just been comshypleted The facility consists of

1) office space and a conference room2) two modern biochemistry laborashy

tories 3) One general research laboratory 4) a catheterization laboratory with

an adjoining dark room5) large animal laboratory with tilt-

table 6) a laboratory animal lab7) large walk-in refrigerator8) small animal holding quarters9) large animal holding quarters

10) mobile laboratory (which contains2 labs equipment area large anishymal holding stocks and a dark room)

The facilities encompass 6000 squarefeet and are located in the southern half of the basement of Sisson Hall

Although this is an interdisciplinary effort there are obvious advantages toour College

1) It will bring equipment and techshynology to our school

2) It will aid in training and teachshying of graduate veterinarians

3) We can glean information from research to apply to a clinical medium

4) We will have prestige from the success of the faculty

5) We should have the ability to atshytract high quality people to comeand study at our College

We are very proud of the developshyment of this facility and we wish it well

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OMEGA TAU SIGAAA NEWS By RONALD H BOCKBRADER

For all those non believers it can honshyestly be said that Spring has finally arshyrived in all its splendor despite severalfalse attempts to break loose from Winshyters tight grasp Needless to say the brothers of Omega Tau Sigma were eagerly awaiting Spring and met it with great enthusiasm

The first major item of business Spring quarter was the election of ofshyficers for the coming year Those elected were as follows

PresidentmdashDon Heagren Vice PresidentmdashAllen Bryant SecretarymdashRon Bockbrader TreasurermdashRich Hersman Assistant TreasurermdashTom Isaac

THE CHIRONBy DON SANDERS Vet Med Ill

This last year the Student Chapter ofthe AVMA voted to establish a yearshybook for the College of Veterinary Medshyicine The yearbook was named The Chiron The name refers to the centaur in Greek mythology who was renownedfor his skill in Medicine

The yearbook was launched by Florshyence Rutledge as editor Penalized byinexperience and a late start Miss Rutshyledge and the staff managed to meet the

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Sergeant-at-ArmsmdashJerry WolfParliamentarianmdashRalph Urmson ChaplainmdashRalph Broshes Rush ChairmanmdashJim Cobb Social ChairmenmdashJoe Starcher

Dave MacDonald Ron Conklin

House ManagermdashCharles Steinman The Brothers of Omega Tau Sigma

are sincere in thanking the retiring ofshyficers after an outstanding year and a job well done

After a fine intramural basketball season which netted a championship troshyphy OTS has again offered its chalshylenge in intramural events with severaltop softball teams

Socially Spring Quarter was again climaxed by the fabulous Senior Send-off and we say that modestly Of coursethe annual cocktail party at the house for Seniors only preceded the evening affair The party was held at Winding Hollow Country Club and exemplified the theme Regal Elegance A delishycious buffet dinner and drinks followed by dancing to Rick Monroes Quintet truly made Senior Sendoff the best everBrothers Grossi and Gurevitz chairshymen of the event can be commended for their efforts

As Spring Quarter draws to a close and the Seniors depart in pursuit of their goals we sincerely wish the best to them and hope that the Fraternityhas been and will continue to be a reshywarding and enjoyable experience for them

deadline for the publishers This yearshybook a true accomplishment for the editor and her staff will come off the press during the first part of June A few extra copies will be printed in case any alumni wish to purchase copies ($700)

Work has already begun on next years Chiron with Don Sanders as theincoming editor Anyone interested in a copy of the Chiron or interested in adshyvertising in next years issue pleasewrite to Don Sanders at the OSU Vetshyerinary Clinic 2578 Kenney Road Coshylumbus Ohio

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ALPHA PSI NEWS

ALPHA PSI By JAY FORSYTH Vet Med II

At the last meeting of the past quarshyter officers for the coming year were elected Jim Syler who did an outstandshying job as last years president was given the honor of serving another year Tom Burke was elected Vice Presshyident Tom Adams will serve as recordshying secretary Mike Snyder the new treasurer will be aided by Ron Montshygomery as assistant treasurer Dick

JIM ROSS (Continued from page 17)

University In the summer of 1966 he attended graduate school at Baylor Unishyversity College of Medicine Houston Texas

Dr Ross will receive his Master of Science degree in June of 1967 His thesis is entitled Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog Clinical and Physioshylogical Features

Beginning on July 1st 1967 Dr Rosswill be a member of the faculty at Bay-lor University College of Medicine with joint appointments in the departshyments of Physiology and Surgery

While an undergraduate student DrRoss became a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Omega Tau Sigma social frashyternities and of Phi Eta Sigma Gam-

Knight will serve as chief censor Jay Forsyth will act as corresponding secshyretary and Ed Stoughton will managethe house

Spring Quarter started off in greatstyle with a house party Alpha Psi thencombined with OTS and had a great time at Bridgeview Country Club

The speakers meeting for the past quarter included Dr R C Smith who spoke on the problems of setting upand running your own private practiceand Mr Joseph A Fodey Jr of CityNational Bank who spoke to the chapshyter about bankings relationship to theprofessional man

In the past two quarters the athleticteams of Alpha Psi have done well Boththe Freshmen and Sophomores broughthome trophies for their division titles Tuesday and Friday baseball squads arewarming up for title hopes after winshyning their league play despite the losses of Herb Betts with a broken foot and Brad Smith with a dislocated finshyger

Other spring events of Alpha Psi inshycluded the freshman welcome picnic onMay 15 1967 The sharp wit of Dr D0 Jones and the barbequed chicken were enjoyed by all The high point ofspring quarter was Senior Sendoff heldon May 26 1967 at the Hospitality Innat which the yearly awards were preshysented

ma Sigma Delta and Phi Zeta honorshyaries

Dr Ross will have a publication apshypearing in the Current VeterinaryTherapy 1967 (in press) entitled Dishyagnosis and Surgical Correction of Pashytent Ductus Arteriosus and Pulmonic Stenosis in the Dog On March 29th 1967 Dr Ross talked to the Northwesshytern OVMA on the subject Heart disease in small animal medicine He alshyso will talk on Diagnosis and SurgicalCorrection of the Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog at the National AVMA meeting in Dallas Texas in July of this year

Dr Ross is married He has a daughshyter Stephanie and his wife Marcia isexpecting a new arrival in June

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AVAAA FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Three members of the Junior Class

have been awarded AVMA grants for research in areas of veterinary medishycine Jon Bernstein is investigating speshycific renal and cardiovascular problemsHis sponsor Dr Robert Hamlin and the National Institute of Health are furnishing the necessary materials Usshying a radio-isotope technique Bernsteinwill be studying renal function of dogs in congestive heart failure He will deshytermine glomerular filtration rate renalblood flow and electrolyte excretion patterns before and after digitalization

Robert Stuhlman under the sponsorshyship of Dr Walter Loeb is using his horse His advisors are Dr Albert Gabel grant to develop a practical test which and Dr R B Heath Parameters monishyis diagnostic for the presence of hepa- tored will include arterial and venous

oxygen carbon dioxide and blood pH tocellular damage and its extent The respiratory rate and depth (pneumoshybasis of the test involves demonstrating graph) systolic and diastolic blood arginase activity with constant results pressures pulse rate and electrocardio-Roy Zinn will compare the effects of gram The ultimate goal of the project

succmylcholine alone and promazine is to evaluate the safety of intravenouswith succinylcholine on the cardiovascu- succinylcholine as an agent for casting lar and respiratory systems of the and restraint of the horse

QRowth bull gestationLactation

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Youre The DoctorBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

A female spayed basset hound IV2 years old was presented for rabies imshymunization with 5 ml of phenolized rashybies vaccine Five days later she was reshyturned in a semi-comatous condition The owner stated that her appetite waspoor ever since her vaccination On thisparticular morning she refused to rise and could not walk when forced to rise Thorough questioning eliminated the possible ingestion of any toxin

On physical examination the dog wasnon-responsive to stimuli Her anal sphincter was relaxed her pupils weremiotic and her temperature was 95deg The dog had a respiration rate of 40 perminute her heart rate was 30 per minshyute Hydration appeared normal but the dogs extremities were extremely cold Her urinary bladder was emptyand no urine could be obtained by cathshyeterization Peripheral lymph nodes were not enlarged nor were there any enlargements on abdominal palpation

The laboratory work done on the dogshowed that she had a PCV of 50 WBC of 7800 with 36 segs 7 non-segs 50 lymphs and 7 eos Her BUN was 147

mg100 ml creatinine was 6 mg100 ml Na was 131 meqL Cl was 96 meq L and K was 93 meqL Renal blood flow was 68 mlmin

The dog was given extensive treatshyment while hospitalized including perishytoneal dialysis She showed marked imshyprovement and so was sent home with medication seven days after admission Two days after dismissal the dog died

What is your diagnosis Doctor Answer on page 44

UPJOHN AWARDS Dale Duer was presented the Upjohn

Award for the most outstanding seniorin large animal medicine Dale is marshyried and is a member of the A V M A and Omega Tau Sigma Upon graduashytion Dale plans to enter large animal practice in Pennsylvania

Receiving the Upjohn Award for the most outstanding senior in small anishymal medicine was Guy Lockwood Guy is married and a member of the A V M A Omega Tau Sigma and Phi ZetaHe will be entering the U S Army Vetshyerinary Corps upon graduation

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Herd Health Management By JOHN C LEITE Vet Med IV PHILLIP A LINERODE DVM PhD

Herd Health Management is a totalapproach to large animal veterinarymedicine It combines into one programthe principles of preventive medicine and clinical medicine When properly apshyplied it could rejuvenate the Veterinarshyian-Farmer relationship

The herd health approach is based upon increasing a clients productivityinstead of running a salvage operationto keep him in business Ideally herd health management provides the means to secure optimum results from the entire herd The tools and techniquesused in herd health are principles ideasand experiments9 carefully and tactshyfully implemented

Since management is an integral part of the herd health approach it necessitates full cooperation of both the Veterinarian and the Farmer For this reason careful selection of clients for this approach is not only desirablebut absolutely essential Likewise the approach to secure cooperation is difshyferent for each farmer and is up to theingenuity of the Veterinarian The Farmer and the Veterinarian are not the only persons who should be inshyvolved in this approach to maximum production Often overlooked are lay people within the practice area who have special backgrounds information and talents that could help the proshygram The lay persons in this categoryare county extension agents vocationalagriculture teachers artificial insemshyination technicians local feed mill opshyerators and milking machine repair men The combined efforts of all these people can truly result in increased production and more profits for the farmer

It must be pointed out that the proshygram is long range and maximum beneshyfits cannot be gained in fewer than 5 or 6 generations in a herd Client confidence must be complete and full authority must be entrusted to the Veterinarian0 The type of operation is not important it may be dairy beef

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swine sheep or equine the principles remain the same

The contractual arrangements beshytween client and practitioner vary withthe type of program and also the geoshygraphic area and its customs Some methods that have been used are13

1 charge on a straight call basis 2 charge by the hour 3 charge by the herd 4 charge for total herd work and

consultation to be done in a giventime (usually by the month or year)

5 charge a percentage of the inshycrease in net profit made by theuse of your service in herd health management

It would be a waste of time to inshyitiate a herd health program without the client being on some type of herd record keeping system For production Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) or Owner Sample (OS) recshyords could be kept with a preference for DHIA Information from producshytion records will aid greatly in detershymining individuals who are worthy of special attention When production records are combined with health recshyords they become invaluable in selectshying stock for the future Recently Morshyrow10 at Cornell University and Boyd Murray and Beck14 at Michigan State developed health records in the form of a folder with moveable colored tabs which indicate the breeding phase of each individual cow These systems however did not attempt to bring toshygether DHIA production records with health records and calf records Bishopand Linerode2 have developed a record keeping system which provides an allshyin-one record keeping system on an 8x10 inch manila folder A unique feashyture of this folder is color tabs to help the dairyman anticipate heat and to indicate the proper time to beginchallenge feeding This new system canbe used by the 1) Dairyman 2) Vetshy

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DANTAFUR(brand of nitrofurantoin)

J racheopharyngitis can lay a horse low fast keep him out of action result in important economic losses to the owner You can return the animal to peak performance quickly with Dantafurreg Administration of Dantafur promptly reverses the course of tracheopharyngitis It relieves coughing and nasal discharge returns the animal to normal breathing

In urinary tract infections Dantafur places imporshytant antibacterial concentrations in the urine within 30 minutes after administration It is effective and practically specific for the infected urinary tract resulting in dramatic cures and animals clinically and bacteriologically free from infection1

DOSAGE Dantafur mdash Tracheopharyngitis (Race Track Cough) mdash for each 225 lbs body weight adshyminister perorally an initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 5 days Urinary Tract Infections mdash for each 225 lbs body weight administer perorally an

initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 7 days and for at least 3 days after urine is sterile SUPPLIED Dantafurmdashoral suspension veterinary Each cc contains 15 mg nitrofurantoin in special suspending medium containing 10 alcohol bottles of 473 cc and 1250 cc As with any potent antibacterial agent administer with caution in cases of marked impairment of renal function safe dosage may be less than usually recommended 1 Witter R S Third Regional Conference on Nitrourans in Veterinary Medicine Atlanta Georgia January 14 1960

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erinarian 3) A I Technician and 4) the Milk Tester This system will proshyvide a means for the dairyman to keepup with his record keeping

Once adequate records are availshyable the veterinarian is ready to tackle the herd health problems In many cases changes must be gradualbecause of the inherent characteristics and attitudes of the client Divisions can be made in order to work on vashyrious aspects of the program and not all aspects need to be carried out at once Five aspects have been adopted in the Herd Health Management Proshygrams in the Wooster Ohio area

1 Mastitis Control 2 Nutrition 3 Fertility and Reproduction 4 Calf Management and Vaccination 5 SanitationThese are discussed below

1 Mastitis Control Mastitis may be defined as an inshy

flammation of the mammary gland reshysulting from the interplay of various etiologic factors their environment andthe host in question From the definishytion it may be assumed that no one causative agent is responsible for masshytitis

Degrees or clinical types of mastitiscan be recognized severe - acute mild shyacute or chronic and subclinical

The severe type can be easily recogshynized and must be treated immediatelyOne recommended treatment would be the administration of Posterior Pituishytary Extract strip out the quarters and administer Liquimycin and sulfa IV with a repeat treatment in 24 hours

The mild and subclinical forms may go unrecognized and therefore some type of screening test should be pershyformed prior to the attachment of the milking machine The most common and easiest test to run is the strip plateor strip cup but some subclinical and even the mild cases may still go unshynoticed The following more elaborate tests may be used to detect these formsof mastitis

California Mastitis Test (CMT)12

Lye Mastitis Test (LMT)4

Michigan Mastitis Test (MMT)4

Liquimycinreg Charles Pfizer amp Co New York NY

SPRING 1967

Whiteside Test9

A Whiteside Test or a Wisconsin Mastitis Test (WMT)12 may be run on bulk tanks to pick up the presence of mastitis in the herd

Further laboratory tests can be conshyducted on sterily collected milk samshyples

Culturemdashstreaking on BAP to obshytain isolation and tentative identishyfication

Catalase Test12mdashbased on the presshyence of catalase contained in sershyum white blood cells epithelial cells colostrum and bacteria

Coagulase Testmdashused to determine Staphoylococcus pathogenicity

Mastitis caused by infestious organshyism can be attributed almost 100 to Streptococcus agalactiia and Staphyshylococcus It has been said that the greatest economic loss is due to Streptococcus agalactiia This organism is easily diagnosed by the use of the Hotis Test and with proper treatment can be eliminated in the cow All cows should be tested once a montih for three months During this period the cows should be arranged in a milking seshyquence according to the results of the test The animals producing a positive test are treated by intramammary inshyfusion of 400000 units of penicillin in18cc of sterile distilled water into each quarter One treatment is usually sufshyficient to eradicate the organism The tests are then conducted every three months for the remainder of he yearand if the herd is free of the organismthey are then conducted at 6 month inshytervals1 To back a positive Hotis Testa Camp Test is run in the laboratory to prove or rule out the presence of a partial hemolizing agent

If Staphylococcus is suspected or proven the only treatment which may prove to be satisfactory is systemic treatment because of the location and pathogenic nature of the organism

Needless to say any cow with masshytitis should be placed last in the milkshying line and extra special sanitary preshycautions taken with her and the equipshyment A cow that fails to respond to treatment or has an irreversible fibshyrotic udder should be culled

Infective agents are not the only etiology for mastitis and the practionshy

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er must maintain a keen eye to locate the other causes or possible causes and then have the condition corrected Othshyer etiologies may be improper milking injured teats and environmental 2 Nutrition

Good nutrition is an obvious and efshyfective tool for the progressive Veterishynarian to use in maintaining high proshyducers in a herd In general over half of the animal deaths are due to malnushytrition because inadequate nutrition will decrease the animals resistance to disshyease Nutrition is the cornerstone of success in herd health management and is often an overlooked factor in infertility It has been incriminated in fetal resorption and anestrus or failure to ovulate5

The basic approach would be to work out average requirements for the herd in digestible protein and Total Digestshyible Nutrients (TDN) A ration comshyposed of corn to supply TDN and soy bean oil meal to supply protein can fulfill the respective requirements and is economical Another rich source of protein is urea which can safely be used up to 3 of the ration It is availshyable in two forms 262 and 285 protein equivalents It is extremely cheap as compared to SBOM and the amount of protein derived from it A word of caution must be inserted here and that is to check with your local feed mill to see if they have the capashycity to mix urea into a ration Trace mineralized salt should be fed free choice

Forages and home grown grains should be tested periodically because it has been found that they may be below estimated textbook values3-5 depending on the type and condition of the growshying season

3 Fertility and Reproduction Fertility checks proper breeding and

a complete obstetrical program in the herd attempt to reach a goal of one calf per year from each cow As menshytioned before nutrition is a prime facshytor in fertility Once it is adequate a successful reproductive program can be launched

A cow should be palpated rectally 30 to 45 days after freshening to deshy

termine if uterine pathology is present or if the animal is ready to be bred on the next heat If pathology is present as indicated by an enlarged flaccid uterus that lacks tone the uterus should be infused with 4 million units of penicillin and 5 grams streptomycin combination mixed with 20cc of Utoshynex (2 mgm ethinyl estradiol and 20 mgm nitrofurathiazide) A cow that is bred on the heat after palpation would place the breeding date approximately 60 days after freshening The cow is then checked at 45-60 days after breedshying to determine if conception has ocshycurred and again prior to being dried off to detect any possible fetal resorpshytion or mummification5 The 45-60 day post breeding check is done to minimize lost time if conception did not occur on the initial breeding or if the fershytilized ova was lost and subsequent heat periods were missed

To aid the student and the clinician in palpating an approximate set of measurements of the whole bulge of the amniotic sac has been proposed

hens egg 40 days baseball 50 days softball 60 days volleyball 70 days basketball 80 days

Additional criteria can be used to apshyproximate the length of the pregnancy

35-60 days mdash slipping of the fetal membranes

85-90 days mdash fremitis of the midshydle uterine artery

110-120 days mdash presence of cotelyshydons

When following a regular program of rectal palpation abnormal conditions can be detected before they become irshyreversible Regular rectal palpation will clearly define the ovarian activity With this method of diagnosis expensive problem cows can be culled from the milk line or treated in an attempt to correct the difficulty In this program an accurate up to date set of records is essential

4 Calf Management and Vaccination This phase begins before the calf is

dropped The cow should be moved to a special maternity stall which is built to accommodate one cow very comfortshyably The calving stalls should be

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cleaned and disinfected between occushypants contain adequate clean bedding have good drainage be warm and have good ventilation The bedding should be changed periodically during the occupants tenure When the calf is dropped the umbilicus should be swabbed with a tincture of iodine and the fetal membranes removed before the cow can ingest them By performshying these simple tasks the new born has been given a much greater chance for survival When the time arrives for the calf to be separated from its mother it should be moved to an inshydividual calf stall When calves are pastthe stage of suckling one another theycan then be moved to clean well bedded and ventilated quarters which will acshycommodate several calves Nutrition is often overlooked in the calf crop in that they are usually fed the formushylated ration of the milking string A separate ration should be calculated forthe calves which is much higher in proshytein to accommodate fast growth The development of the calf during this period will have a direct influence onceshe enters the milk line Before reachshying the age of four months (120 days) calves are vaccinated for Brucellosis TB tested dehorned and have supershynumary teats removed If the owner so desires the calves may be vaccishynated for IBR and BVD at this time

The calf management program proshyvides a total health effort to improve the future milk string of the operashytion The program when followed dilishygently should provide for excellent calf survival with losses less than 1

5 Sanitation Sanitation should be the center of a

herd health program or the hub aroundwhich the other four aspects of the program revolve however it is often the most overlooked or neglected pracshytice in operations today It not only includes the premises but also theanimals and equipment

Junk and trash lying around the farm and especially around the barn and grain storage areas promote rats and mice Junk trash dirt cobwebs inside the barn present physical hazshyards to the animals This material is also a potential health hazard for it may provide the reservoir that disease

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needs in order to be propagated Improper drainage in the stall area

exercise lot and loafing shed promotethe accumulation of urine and feces and increase the possibility of animal foot problems and other health probshylems Manure is always a disposal probshylem but it must be cleaned daily fromthese areas and not allowd to accumushylate Bedding material must be changedfrequently if the animal urinates or dencates within the resting space Cowson which feces are allowed to accumushylate are health hazards to the herd and show a sign of poor management These cows should be washed and brushed to clean this material from their body

The housing and work areas must have adequate lighting so that the opshyerator and the Veterinarian may havemore ideal conditions in which to work More problem areas can be seen in a well lighted area than in a dark or dimly lit area Ventilation should be perfect so as to promote a healthy atshymosphere for the animals and lessen the possibility of money being lost due to respiratory diseases The principlesof admitting ample fresh air high andremoving the tainted air low will rid the area of moisture and foul ammonia fumes from urine

When designing the ventilation sysshytem it must be remembered that when admitting the fresh air the inlets mustbe planned so that there is one inlet of 60 sq in for every 3i2 - 1000 anishymal units The inlets can be placed at various places around the barn or stable area To eject the air a flue should beconsidered only if the distance from the highest point on the barn roof to the ground is 30 ft or more7 The flue size will be determined by the volume of the area to be evacuated It is imshyportant to place a door in the flue nearthe ceiling This door can be opened inthe summer months to aid in movingthe hot air which accumulates near the ceiling If the distance from the highshyest point on the barn roof to the groundis less than 30 ft a mechanical type system must be employed to evacuate the area The same principle applies in the mechanical systemmdashenter the fresh air high and exit the stale air low The number of mechanical units

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needed should be sufficient to provide a complete change of air six times every hour Sanitation also includes themilking parlor the equipment used and the technique employed in the acshytual milking The incidence of mastitis can increase when strict sanitary proshycedures are not adhered to The udder and especially the teats should be washed thoroughly with a mild soap and one of the iodine antiseptic prepshyarations This procedure not only stimushylates milk let down but reduces the possibility of spreading bacteria and contaminating the milk or other udshyders The inflation cups should be dipped into an iodine preparation inshysuring that the whole cup has been cleansed The cups then should be placed on the teat (after a strip plate test has been run) without allowingthem to touch the ground or other obshyjects such as bedding The wash waterand the water used to dip the teat cupsshould be changed at fifteen cow in-

This article is submitted due to interest shown by many and with the firm belief that Herd Health Management is the future of large anishymal practice The article was condensed from a paper prepared by Jack Leite for Dr Line-rode as part of the requirement for VeterinaryPreventive Medicine 740 Much of what is outshylined in this article comes from experience gained on field trips to Wooster Ohio area where herd health management programs are being conducted in five private dairy herds with the cooperation and participation of Drs Don Noah and Robert Mairs

1 A Syllabus on the Bovine Mammary Gland in Health amp Disease Department of Clinishycal Pathology School of Veterinary Medishycine University of California Davis Calishyfornia Schalm OW

2 Bishop J P amp Linerode PA Dairy Herd Health Management Record System Ohio State University 1967

3 Coppock CE amp Tyrell HE Feeding Recshyommendations for Lactating Cows Modern Veterinary Practice vol 48 1 January 1967

4 Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio

3 Drewry GH The Total Program Approachto Herd Health Management Modern Vetshyerinary Practice vol 48 2 February 1967

6 Guss Samuel B Milking Machines and Mastitis Modern Veterinary Practice vol 45 12 October 15 1964

7 Helwig John H Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinshyary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Personal Communication

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tervals throughout the milking proshycedure

The herd health management proshygram does not eliminate the emergencycalls The practitioner should be preshypared for them but the program shouldreduce the frequency of such calls andimproves the environment in which theVeterinarian must work Herd Health Management allows the farmer to proshyduce the greatest quantity of his proshyduct at the highest quality for the least cost A guideline in establishing a herd health program entitled Proshygramming Herd Health can be obshytained from Veterinary Practitioners Counseling Service VM Publishing Inc 144 N Nettleton Street Bonner Springs Kansas This aid to the pracshytitioner is available for Beef or Dairy operations at a nominal fee and may be a worth while investment for any one thinking of doing herd health work

8 Linerode Phillip A Department of Vetershyinary Preventative Medicine College of Vetshyerinary Medicine The Ohio State Universishyty Personal Communication

9 Modern Veterinary Practice vol 15 12 October 15 1964 p 8-62

10 Morrow DA Herd Health Records Corshynell University

11 Rice RE Trends in Large Animal Pracshytice Norden News vol 41 3 1966

12 US Department of Health Education and Welfare Screening Tests for Detection of Abnormal Milk 1965

13 Steere James H Modern Veterinary Pracshytice Reference and Data Service Large Anishymal 4 p A-8-8

14 Veterinary Clinic amp Dairy Dept Cooperashytive Extension Service Michigan State Unishyversity East Lansing Michigan

15 Woelffer EA Modern Veterinary Practice Reference and Data Service Large Animal 4 p A-8-19

YOURE THE DOCTOR (Continued)

Answer This dog had adrenal hyposhycortism or Addisons Disease The diagshynosis was confirmed by performing theThorn Test The preinjection samplecontained 1765 eoscu mm Two hoursafter the injection of ACTH the samshyple contained 1468 eoscu mm After four hours the sample contained 1815eoscu mm Necropsy confirmed thatthe dog had had adrenal hypocortisni

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DR THOMAS BIBB Dr Thomas L Bibb received his BS

in Animal Husbandry from Virginia Tech in 1958 He received his DVM from the Ohio State University in 1962While attending OSU Dr Bibb was amember of Omega Tau Sigma and PhiZeta

After graduation Dr Bibb went to Winchester Virginia where he was in a three man mixed practice doing mostly large animal work for three years He then went to Virginia Tech as the clinician for the University and experiment station herds and flocks and was also a member of the Veterinary Science Department He took a two

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year leave of absence in July 1966 tocome back to OSU and pursue a MSdegree in Veterinary Medicine in thearea of large animal reproduction DrBibb hopes by the Summer of 1968 tohave finished his work and return to Virginia Tech

Dr Bibb is married to the former Susan Bierer of Winchester Virginia They have no children

Dr Bibb is a member of the AVMA the VVMA the OVMA the Amerishycan Society of Animal Science the American Society for the Study ot Breeding Soundness and the Southeastshyern Society for the Study of Breeding Soundness

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THE

COLLEGE

DR JAMES N ROSS JR Dr Ross was born in Akron Ohio

on December 18th 1940 He graduatedfrom Norwalk High School as valedicshytorian in 1958 From 1958 to 1960 he attended DePauw University in Green-castle Indiana where he was a Rector Scholar He graduated in 1960

In the Fall of 1960 Dr Ross entered the College of Agriculture at The OhioState University From February to September of 1961 he was an exchangestudent at Freiberg University Freishyberg iBr Germany

From Fall 1961 to Spring 1965 whenhe received his DVM he attended the

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College of Veterinary Medicine at TheOhio State University He was a research assistant in the Department ofPhysiology from 1962 to 1965

In the summer of 1963 Dr Ross worked for COSTEP in the US Public Health Service studying a survey of heart disease in horses In the summer of 1964 he also worked for COSTEP but this time he was stationed at the Armed Forces Institute Of Pathology in Washington DC studying patholshyogy in horses hearts

Since 1965 Dr Ross has been in the Graduate School as a NIH cardiologytrainee in the Department on Physioloshygy and Pharmacology at The Ohio State

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DR ARTHUR I SWAN Dr Arthur I Swan graduated from

the Royal Veterinary College Universishyty of London England in 1953

Following graduation Dr Swan spent four years in mixed general pracshytice He then joined the staff of the Wellcome Foundation Research Laborashytories His work there was connected with anaerobic vaccine production and research His duties included working at a large equine stud that was conshycerned with antisera production Later Dr Swan was transferred to the Well-come Veterinary Research Station for a period of two years At the Research

Station he spent his time working on chemotheraputic testing in large and small animals

In 1963 Dr Swan was appointed to the Animal Pathology Division of theCanadian Federal Department of Agrishyculture Here his duties were in the Veterinary Microbiological Diagnostic and Research Departments

On May 8 1967 Dr Swan joined theDepartment of Veterinary Clinical Pathology of the Ohio State UniversityCollege of Veterinary Medicine He willbe working as a graduate teaching asshysociate in the microbiology laboratory

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1967 GRADUATING SENIORSBy DORTHEA LOWER amp JOSEPH WAGNER Vet Med IV

The seniors who are graduating this June are listed as follows along with degrees activishyties and expected location

Michael R Andrews 3958 Halsey PlaceColumbus OhioFt McPhersonAtlanta GeorgiaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

Donald W- Barton PO Box 365 Hamden OhioHamden-Vinton County

Ohio Mixed Practice AVMA

Richard E Bernard 2233 Arlington AveColumbus OhioDavis-Monthan AFB Tuscon ArizonaUSAF AVMA Alpha Psi

Paul BinnigRD 2 Minerva Ohio 44657Minerva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Alpha Psi

Asst Treas Treas

John Philip BishopMilford Center OhioUniversity of the SouthDept of AgronomyBahia Blanca ArgentinaPurdue Fellow-Internship

in foreign agriculturaldevelopment

AVMA OTS

Robert R Blease Upper Ferry RoadTrenton N JAVMA Alpha Psi

Jack Bonham 5165 Penny PikeSpringfield OhioPublic Health - City of

SpringfieldAVMA

James Booth640 Forest AveZanesville OhioAVMA OTS

Clinic Intern

Gary L Bowman333 S Market Street Loudonville OhioAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

Eugene M Breznock21129 Westwood Rd Fairview Park 26 OhioAVMA Phi Zeta

Melvin Butler Normantown W VaBuckeye Veterinary ClinicPO Box 476 Buckeye ArizonaMixed Practice AVMA

Richard S Dailey614 Jefferson Avenue Charles Town W VaBrentwood Veterinary

HospitalPortsmouth VirginiaSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Clinic Intern

Louis Diluzio 3955 West Sprague RoadNorth Royalton Ohio

44133 Small Animal Practice AVMA

Dale L DuerrRoute 1Bolivar Ohio 44612Quakertown Animal

Hospital40 S 11th St Quakertown Pa 18951Mixed Practice AVMA OTS

Speculum Large AnimalClinician Award

James L Ehler ER Squibb

Pharmaceuticals Animal Products Services New Brunswick New

JerseyAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day

SPRING 1967

Rodney FergusonRD 3East Liverpool OhioTexas A amp M University-Resident Large Animal

Clinics AVMA OTS Phi Zeta

Ronald J Frank 4430 Tindall St NWWashington DC 20016Hancock Air Base Syracuse NY 13225AVMA OTS

Dorothea L Freitas Far Hills NJ 07931360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York N Y 10021Internship - Animal

Medical Center AVMA Secy Phi Zeta

Speculum Co-editorClass Secy

Robert A Fritz Sylvania RoadToledo Ohio654 Stimmelmdash14 Columbus Ohio 43223USAF in MichiganAVMA OTS Treas

Speculum Assoc EditorCheron PhotographyEditor

Joseph Grossi JrMeadowbrook Manor Wintersville OhioMontgomery Animal

Hospital7700 Montgomery RoadCincinnati OhioAVMA OTS Class

Secy

Richard H Gurevitz 269-4 N Chesterfield Rd Columbus Ohio 43209Becher Animal HospitalColumbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Awards

Banquet ChairmanOTS Social ChairmanPledge Master GammaClass Pres Award

Dennis D HardyEden Idaho University of CaliforniaDavis California Internship Large Animal

Med amp Sur AVMA

James Hatfield D D 9

Bethel Ohio 45106AVMA

Thomas D HeadingSo Missouri Ave Wellston OhioPaine Air Field Everett WashingtonUSAF AVMA OTS

Daniel R Helvoigt1014 Fremont St Dover Ohio Rt 3 Shippensburg Pa90 Dairy PracticeAVMA Mark Morris

Fellow

William E Hendricks 100 E 6th Street West Lafayette OhioChicago 111 US ArmyAVMA OTS

Robert Henry R 3 Cardington Ohio 43315Bunker Hill Animal

Hospital6220 Jefferson Rd Ashtabula OhioMixed Practice AVMA Class Pres

Ron Jenne 1125 Eastgate RdToledo OBoston Mass after Nov

1567US ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

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Philip Johnson7580 Shawnee Run Rd Cincinnati Ohio656 Riverview Drive Columbus OhioLaboratory Animal

Medicine OSU AVMA

J Thomas LangRFD 1 Big Prairie OhioQuakertown Ani HospQuakertown PennsylvaniaDairy PracticeAVMA OTS

Donald R Kaeser 4871 Olentangy River RdColumbus Ohio121 Harvey AveDoylestown PaBuckingham Animal

HospitalBuckingham PennsylvaniaMixed mainly large

animal practiceAVMA OTS

Randy Kidd7629 Clark State Road Blacklick OhioMixed Practice AVMA OTS

President

Richard C Koritansky14032 GAR HighwayChardon Ohio 44024Abbotsford Veterinary

Clinic Ltd PO Box 96 Abbotsford British

Columbia CanadaLarge Animal PracticeAVMA Alpha Psi

corresponding secygtStudent Council

Dean Karl Kraus co Mr Charles OttoRoute 2 and 6 East Huron OhioTredyffrin Veterinary

Hospital1476 Lancaster Avenue Paoli Pennsylvania 19301Small Animal Practice AVMA class

rep resentati vetreasurer speakersbureau

Communications Chairman of Live Surgery Exhibit

Daniel E Lafontaine RR 1 Alvada Ohio Persidio of San Francisco San Francisco Calif US ArmyAVMA OTS

John C Leite 812 Clinton St Fremont 01877 Oakland Park Columbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Guy C Lockwood125 E Como Avenue Columbus Ohio Pentagon

Washington DC 20315Washington DCUS ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Small AnimalClinician Award

Lance O Lollini 430 Sinclair Street Yorkville OhioFt Bragg North CarolinaUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Phi

Phi Zeta

James C Lonz Route 3 Norwalk OhioYuma Test Station Yuma Arizona US ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta class treasStudent Council

E Clinton LowryForest Hill West Virginia360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York NY 10021Small Animal Internship shy

Animal Medical Center AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Co-chairman Pre-Vet Day Clinic InternClass Treas

Bruce Marhefka Kensington OhioUniversity of Minnesota shy

College of Vet MedSmall Animal Surgery shy

Instructor AVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day listening booth

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jpoundSl^

MANOREWS 0 BAKTON K BERNARD P BINNIG J BISHOP P S L E S E J B O N H A M J BOOTH G BOWMAN G- BREZNOCK MBUTLER R DAILEY

L OILUZIO D DUERR J EHLER PFERGUSON PFRANK D FREITAS RFRITZ RGUREV1TZ 0 HARDY T HATP1ELD T HEADING

S 0 HELVOIGT W HENOMCKS RHENRY PJENNE OPRATT 8SAYLE J GROSS PJOHNSON 0 KAESER RKiOD RKORITANSKY

VtCE-PRSB PRESIDENT SKt shy TREAS

0 KRAUS 0 LAF0NTA1NE JT L A N G J LEITE

COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

G U3CKW000 L LOLLINI J LONZ C lOWfOT

BMARHEfKA CMCCONNELL MMCGANNON JMEHLING L MILEY RMYERS TOWEN DPAULO J PRATT J PURVI S M R A D C U F F E C R A F L O

WRANNELLS BREYNOLDS F BUTLEDQE GRSfKORA RSOLONER JWAGNER RWHJPPS WYAKLIY MYOUSHAK M ZARNETT J ZINES

Charles T McConnell 707 Main Street Toronto OhioLewis Animal HospitalCincinnati OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Phi Zeta

Exhibit Chairman Pre-Vet Day

Mel McGannon Box 143 Windsor OhioBoyds Animal HospitalGeneva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Clinic Intern

John A Mehling 118 N Wood Street Fremont OhioCollege of Veterinary

Medicine Cornell UniversityIthaca NY Dairy Practice shy

Ambulatory ClinicianAVMA

Larry Miley R i Eaton OhioFt Snelling after Nov

15 1967 Minneapolis MinnUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Pre Vet Day guide

Richard A Myersco Richard D Myers1271 Arbor Lane Marion OhioClover Park Veterinary

HospitalTacoma WashingtonSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Terry Owen4671 Venus Road Uniontown Rd 2 Ohio Letterman General HospSurgical amp Physiological

Research San Francisco Cal US ArmyAVMA OTS Pre-

Vet Day

F Daniel Paulo RD 1 Box 100 North Jackson OhioBeale AFB CaliforniaUSAF AVMA class

representative secretaryOTS Student Council

John Carl Pratt Rankins Creek Road South Point Ohio 45680South Point OhioMixed Mostly Large

Animal PracticeAVMA

Orben Pratt Jr Rt 1 St Paris Ohio 43072Ft McArthur Los Angeles CaliforniaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

intramural sports

James Purvis 525 KensingtonMiddletown Ohio 45042Lynch Animal Hospital3410 Tytus AveMiddletown OSmall Animal PracticeAVMA OTS

Intramural SportsStudent Council

Michael Radcliffe 2587 Mt Holyoke DriveColumbus Ohio 43221San Francisco Calif Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Charles P Raflo 6267 Elbrook Avenue Cincinnati Ohio 45237Aberdeen Proving Ground

MarylandUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Recording SecyChief Censor

William T Rannells RFD 1 New Plymouth Ohio

45654New Plymouth OhioMixed Practice AVMA

Bill B ReynoldsRt 3 Box 510Clarksburg W Va Reynolds Animal HospitalClarksburg W Va Mixed Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Student CouncilPresident Master of Ceremonies at AVMA Awards Banquet

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Florence Rutledge11815 Davis Court Lakewood Ohio 44107Gasow Veterinary Hospital1521 North Woodward

Ave Birmingham Michigan

48011 Small Animal Practice AVMA Chiron Editor

Sigma Gamma DeltaBorden Award Phi Zeta

William R SayleChagrin Falls Ohio 44042Amherst Animal HospitalAmherst Ohio 44001Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Intramurals PledgeMaster PresidentStudent Council

Speculum Chiron Gamma Award ClassPresident Merck Award

Richard Soldner 3322 Maize Rd Columbus OhioSpringfield Animal

Hospital36 Warder StreetSpringfield OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS PhiZeta Exhibit Chairman

Pre-Vet Day

George R SikoraHinckley OhioRichards amp Gebauer

AFBKansas City MoUSAF Base

Veterinarian AVMA Phi Zeta

Chiron SpeculumAlpha Psi Award

Joseph L Wagner6921 Salem Road Cincinnati Ohio 45030Laboratory Animal

FacilitySchool of Medicine shy

University of NorthCarolina

Chapel Hill NorthCarolina 27514

Laboratory AnimalMedicine - Graduate School

AVMA OTS PhiZeta AVMAFoundation ScholarshipMark Morris Research

Fellow Pre-Vet Day Speculum

Co-editor

Richard D Whipps1447 Thurell Rd Columbus OhioFort Lewis Spokane WashingtonUS ArmyAVMA Chiron

Business Mgr SpeakersBureau Chairman

William Lee Yakely1309 Cross Street Dover OhioWashington State

University - College ofVeterinary Medicine

Resident AVMA Co-Chairman

Publicity amp Picnic Committee ChairmanLive Surgery ExhibitTreasurer Vice-President OTSChairman Awards

AVMA Auxiliary AwardCommittee MarkMorris Research Fellow

Michael Youshak Huntsburg OhioVeterinary PathologyOhio State University1925 Coffey RoadColumbus OhioPost-Doctoral Graduate

ProgramAVMA President

OTS Phi Zeta PhizerAward Alpha PsiAlumni Award Speculum Chiron Pre-Doctoral FellowPublicity Co-ChairmanPre-Vet Day LiveSurgery ExhibitProgram ChairmanIntramurals

Martin Harold Zarnett 862 E 17th St Brooklyn New York 11230Aqueduct RacetrackSaratoga RacewayAiken amp Camden So Carolina Equine PracticeAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day Guide Asst LiveSurgery Exhibit

Jack B Zines MC 24 Salem OhioLarge Animal PracticeAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

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One of our salesmen made his first calls in this

Seems he started calling on veterinarians 40 years ago He didnt think about selling He thought about animals diseases how to cure them or prevent them Hed recomshymend this that or the other of his products that he thought would be most helpful And the veterinarians liked him Still do In fact nowadays hes calling on the sons of some of his original customers And his point of view is pretty much like that of the rest of our salesmen Their average length of service is 16 years When you stay with a company that long you dont exactly sell it Youre part of it

P I T M A N - M O O R E Division of The Dow Chemical Company Midland Michigan 48640

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PRE-VET DAY - 1967By E DAN WOLF Vet Med Ill

Informative educational professionshyally presentedmdashthese were a few of theevaluations expressed by the 510 pershysons who attended Pre-Vet Day 1967

Following registration tour groups of 25-30 people were formed and each group was led by two student guides through Sisson Hall Goss Pathology Laboratory and the Veterinary ClinicThe program consisted of informative speeches and a tour of the College Theofficial College welcome was extended byDr Walter Venzke This was followed by brief descriptions of the various fields of veterinary medicine Dr Roshybert Hamlin education and research Dr D 0 Jones public health Dr BruceWenger small animal practice Dr James Donham and Dr Clyde Purdy large animal practice Dean Krill then explained the academic and personal qualifications for admission to the colshylege

The tour of the college consisted of explanations and displays illustratingthe function of each department Thesewere prepared and presented by the stushydents and included Anatomy mdash Ron Bockbrader and Dave

HenryBacteriology mdash Jim Guenther Robert

Temple and Stan EichelbergerParasitology mdash Scott Anderson and

Dave Farris Physiology and Pharmacology mdash Frank

Pipers and Steve KurtzerPreventive Medicine mdash Tom Cummins

and Dick Smolen Library mdash Sharon Schumann and Ken

Clever

Pathology mdash Tom Burke Mike Wanskyand Bruce McCullough

Small Animal Medicine mdash Bill Sayle andTed Panhuis

Small Animal Surgery mdash Dick Soldner Ralph Urmson and Doug Cbatney

Large Animal Medicine mdash Harold Fershyguson Bill Reynolds and Fred Adams

Large Animal Surgery mdash Dale Duerr Dick Dailey and Dave McDonald

Ambulatory mdash James Booth Ames Alshylen and Gary Bowman

Clinical Pathology mdash Charles McConshynell Jack Zines and Bill Sternecker

Radiology mdash James Syler and Victoria Voith Some of the departmental programs

presented were Evaluation of Various Physiological Parameters Studies on Gnotobiotic Animals The Physical Exshyamination Basic Surgical Equipment Preparation and Common Surgical Sitshyuations Foaling Rumenotomy and GasAnesthesia Equipment

The majority of those attending Pre-Vet Day seemed to be quite interestedand awed by the varied knowledge andthe professional qualifications of the veterinarian

Lunch was served at both Sisson Hall and the Clinic by the Pre-Vet Club Much work was required and several problems had to be overcome to presentto the public the true picture of veterinshyary medicine (Not the least of these problems was presenting the professionshyal aspects of veterinary medicine in a garage) Everyone who worked so hard to present Pre-Vet Day 1967 deshyserves hearty congratulations

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REPORT ON SPEAKERS BUREAUBy RICHARD WHIPPS Vet Med IV This year the Speakers Bureau of

the AVMA Student Chapter has enshyjoyed its most successful year to date The Speakers Bureau was organizedthree years ago in an effort to inform the public of the broad scope of vetershyinary medicine Junior and senior vetshyerinary students have presented our profession to 4-H Clubs AgriculturalClubs and Survey Classes high schoolsand even to elementary school classesEach speaking engagement is usually handled by a team consisting of one senior and one junior with the senior student handling most of the speaking chores A stimulating question-and-anshyswer period follows almost every preshysentation

Student speakers participated in cashyreer-day programs in high schools throughout central Ohio including Coshylumbus Newark Lancaster and Censhyterburg Speakers presented mogtre specshyialized topics within the realm of vetshyerinary medicine to the Grove City Horsemasters 4-H Club the Wilmingshyton College Agricultural Club and Ag

AVMA NEWS By JUDY SAUERBREI Vet Med Ill This quarter as usual the student

chapter has been very active Pre-Vet Day (held Saturday April 15th) was a success with 510 people registering TheChiron the AVMA sponsored Colshylege of Veterinary Medicine yearbook has been mailed to the publishers and will be delivered to the student body byearly June The very active Speakers Bureau will continue to fulfill requestsfor guest speakers received throughoutthe summer New chairman of this comshymittee will be senior Tom Cummins Also this summer the Live Surgery exshyhibit which is presently at the Center of Science and Industry will be movedto Cincinnati for the Hamilton County Fair and then back to Columbus for The Ohio State Fair in August-Septemshyber

Members have enjoyed some very inshyteresting and informative programsthis quarter including a fine talk by ColScott Radcliff of the Ohio State Patrol

Survey classes and the Central Ohio Cocker Spaniel Club Topics for discusshysion included careers in veterinary medshyicine latest theories and developments in our profession various aspects ofveterinary preventive medicine and therole of the veterinarian in aerospace medicine The record for the longest distance traveled by student speakersthis year is held by the team who spoketo the Beta Beta Beta biological honorshyary of Marietta College

As chairman of the Speakers Bushyreau I would like to thank all the stushydents who served as speakers this yearEach person served his profession wellI am certain that the outreach of the Speakers Bureau will continue to grow as it presents the expanding field of veterinary medicine to the general pubshylic whose knowledge of our profession is in too many instances sadly lackingI would also like to express a specialthanks to Dr Donald Gisler of our facshyulty for giving his time and talents so that our presentations could be of the best possible quality

on Traffic Accidents and a large anishymal panel Members of this panel wereDr Albert Gabel of the OSU Veterinshyary Clinic Dr D G Miller SugarcreekDr Warren Amling London Dr Ed Kennedy Miamiville Dr Donald Moss-burger Bloomingburg Ohio

Other events for members of Student Chapter of AVMA included the Anshynual Awards Banquet on May 19th atthe Grandview Inn and the Spring Picshynic held on May 24th at Big Bear Farms

At the last meeting of the Student Chapter for Spring Quarter 1967 elecshytion of officers was held New officers for the academic year of 1967-68 will be President - Tom Hickey President-elect - Dick Hersman Vice President shyRalph Urmson Secretary - Sharon Schuman Treasurer - Bruce McCullocih These new officers have the great reshysponsibility of continuing to maintain the high standards of leadership exhibshyited by their predecessors

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Ohio State Fair Veterinary Medicine ExhibitBy DAVE ZIMMERMAN Vet Med Ill

For quite a few years the Ohio StateUniversity Student Chapter of the AVMA has presented an informative exhibit concerning veterinary medicineat the Ohio State Fair Last year this project took on a much wider scope Forthe first time live surgery was pershyformed in a modern portable surgical operating room Large pleriglass winshydows and closed circuit television enshyhanced the vantage point of the viewshying public

Again this summer the project will be presented at the Ohio State Fair Present plans call for two surgical proshycedures to be performed daily bylicensed and academy practicing veterishynarians representing their local acadeshymies with narration by students Talks

demonstrations and movies presentingthe complete and varied field of veterishynary medicine will round out the daily program

The purpose of the exhibit is to edushycate the public as to the wide rangeand high quality of service provided bythe modern veterinary clinic Althoughthis project is presented by the stushydents its aim is recognition of public and private practitioners through pubshylic exposure and education All demonshystrations will be presented in the proshyfessional and exacting way that modernveterinary medicine is practiced We feel certain that after a person has witshynessed the procedures presented he willbe much more aware of the ability posshysessed by his veterinarian

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Canine Research Projects SupportedBy The Columbus Collie Club

The Columbus Collie Club donated $3000 to the Ohio State University Vetshyerinary Medicine to be used in Canine research projects The grant was dishyvided among the following projectswhich will be conducted between June 1967 and June 1968 by seniors in the college

Richard Kight Tom Cummins Bob Smatt Dick Flinn L Joe Starcher

FULL THICKNESS BONE GRAPHS IN THE CANINE Seniors Tom Cumshymins Dick Flinn Gene Hofacre Bob Smatt Advisor Dr Richard Rudy

Full thickness bone graphs will be employed in the femur and radius of mature 25-40 pound beagle type dogsThe periosteum of the femur will be inshycised and elevated and the shaft transhysected proximally and distally and thenremoved The shaft will then be splitlongitudinally with care being taken to preserve the endosteum One-half will be discarded the other replaced in its former position The periosteum will beclosed Fixation will consist of an intrashymedullary pin and orthopedic wire Onthe anterior limb the radius will be exshyposed the periosteum split and eleshyvated A 25 cm piece of radius will then be removed Prior to this procedshyure an incision will have been made at the distal portion of the 7th rib and a

5 cm piece of rib removed with the periosteum intact This piece will be cut in half transversely The two secshytions side by side will be secured in theradial defect A Kirsthner splint andorthopedic wire will be used for fixation

The dogs will then be observed for eight weeks and the fracture sites willbe evaluated as to the strength and stashybility of the union

During the course of the study the dogs will be handled as much like acshytual clinical cases as possible Strict aseptic procedures will be carried out and the dogs will be adequately medishycated as would a clinical case

If shown to be successful the typeof graph described above may be utilshyized clinically in restoration of the conshytinuity of bones too severely fractured to be reduced by simpler and convenshytional techniques

QUANTITATIVE DETERMINAshyTION OF CORTICOSTEROIDS PROshyDUCED BY THE ADRENAL CORshyTEX Senior L Joe Starcher Advisshyors Dr Philip W Murdick Dr Edshyward F Donovan

From the results of this project it ishoped that the normal canine corticosshyteroid levels can be determined and a routine testing procedure established Itis possible that such a test would be asuseful as the blood test urinalysis andfecal examination when a complete exshyamination of a dog is done

A METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE RESIN-SPONGE TRIIODOTHROshyNINE UPTAKE TECHNIQUE IN DEshyTECTING THYROID FUNCTION OF THE DOG Senior Victoria L Voith Advisor Dr Walter Lobe

This experiment entails keeping twelve dogs-four in euthyroid four in hypothyroid and four in hyperthyroid states Blood samples will be drawn bishyweekly for three weeks and used to pershyform the resin-sponge triiodothyronine uptake test When radioactive iodine labeled triiodothyronine (T-3) is added

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to a serum sample it first saturates the It is unlikely although possible that unoccupied thyroid-binding sites on the practitioner will perform this tech-Thyroid Binding Protein (TBP) The nique himself but the blood sample remaining T-3 is taken up by the resin- could easily be sent to a laboratory sponge added to the sample The total equipped to perform such a test amount of T-3 is determined Then afshyter incubation the resin-sponge is CLINICAL EVALUATION OF RE-rinsed free of serum and with it the T-3 NAL F U N C T I O N Senior Dick bound to TBP The radioactivity re- Knight Advisor Dr Robert Candon maining in the resin-sponge is then de- The present clinical laboratory parashytermined The percent of radioactive meters for evaluation of renal function T-3 taken up by the resin-sponge is in- are incomplete and poorly understoodversely proportional to the unsaturated The dog that has renal impairment butsites on the TBG and directly propor- does not show frank clinical evidence of tional to the amount of endogenous thy- impairment is the animal that needs roxine and triiodothyronine circulating clinical outlines This animal is the one

The invitro technique used in this ex- that can be helped the most with earlyperiment has been shown to be an ac- therapy andor prophylactic regimes curate and safe method of assessing The purpose of the study is to define thyroid function in human beings The and evaluate clinical parameters for theexperiment is designed to determine the evaluations of glomerular filtration ratevalidity of this test in detection of the renal plasma flow tubular maximum canine thyroid function Since this tech- and sodium-potassium excretion in nique employs the use of serum and nephretic dogs Then if possible the de-does not expose the dog to radioactive velopment of a simple clinical test to iodine it has the possibilities of becom- accomplish these procedures will be atshying of diagnostic use to the practitioner tempted

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NIH HEART GRANTBy FRANK PIPERS Vet Med Ill

Mutual interest on the part of a numshyber of research groups on campus conshyceived the idea of synthesizing capabilishyties and efforts with the end result beshying the formation and aquisition of an NIH grant entitled Biology of the Heart Participating in this endeavor are the Department of Veterinary Physhysiology College of Veterinary Medicineand the Departments of Physiology Medicine and Pathology College of Medicine

The two co-principal directors are Drs Smith and Warren There is a six man Steering Committee and approxishymately 20 to 25 professional efforts with an additional 15 to 20 man technical staff

The overall objective is to study allaspects of the normal and failing heartThe principle endeavors of this project will be

1) ultra microscopy of the failing heart

2) metabolism of the failing rat heart

3) bloodflow to visera and peripheral circulation

4) hemodynamics of the horse5) cardiac and renal function in dogs

with heart disease 6) ventricular and atrial activation

processes in cattle 7) uses of the computer in analyzing

electrocardiographic data of varshyious species

The nucleus of the microscopic workis at Starling Loving Hall where thereis an electron microscope The nucleus for macroscopic experimentation is at

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Sisson Hall where the installation of a $200000 facility has just been comshypleted The facility consists of

1) office space and a conference room2) two modern biochemistry laborashy

tories 3) One general research laboratory 4) a catheterization laboratory with

an adjoining dark room5) large animal laboratory with tilt-

table 6) a laboratory animal lab7) large walk-in refrigerator8) small animal holding quarters9) large animal holding quarters

10) mobile laboratory (which contains2 labs equipment area large anishymal holding stocks and a dark room)

The facilities encompass 6000 squarefeet and are located in the southern half of the basement of Sisson Hall

Although this is an interdisciplinary effort there are obvious advantages toour College

1) It will bring equipment and techshynology to our school

2) It will aid in training and teachshying of graduate veterinarians

3) We can glean information from research to apply to a clinical medium

4) We will have prestige from the success of the faculty

5) We should have the ability to atshytract high quality people to comeand study at our College

We are very proud of the developshyment of this facility and we wish it well

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OMEGA TAU SIGAAA NEWS By RONALD H BOCKBRADER

For all those non believers it can honshyestly be said that Spring has finally arshyrived in all its splendor despite severalfalse attempts to break loose from Winshyters tight grasp Needless to say the brothers of Omega Tau Sigma were eagerly awaiting Spring and met it with great enthusiasm

The first major item of business Spring quarter was the election of ofshyficers for the coming year Those elected were as follows

PresidentmdashDon Heagren Vice PresidentmdashAllen Bryant SecretarymdashRon Bockbrader TreasurermdashRich Hersman Assistant TreasurermdashTom Isaac

THE CHIRONBy DON SANDERS Vet Med Ill

This last year the Student Chapter ofthe AVMA voted to establish a yearshybook for the College of Veterinary Medshyicine The yearbook was named The Chiron The name refers to the centaur in Greek mythology who was renownedfor his skill in Medicine

The yearbook was launched by Florshyence Rutledge as editor Penalized byinexperience and a late start Miss Rutshyledge and the staff managed to meet the

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Sergeant-at-ArmsmdashJerry WolfParliamentarianmdashRalph Urmson ChaplainmdashRalph Broshes Rush ChairmanmdashJim Cobb Social ChairmenmdashJoe Starcher

Dave MacDonald Ron Conklin

House ManagermdashCharles Steinman The Brothers of Omega Tau Sigma

are sincere in thanking the retiring ofshyficers after an outstanding year and a job well done

After a fine intramural basketball season which netted a championship troshyphy OTS has again offered its chalshylenge in intramural events with severaltop softball teams

Socially Spring Quarter was again climaxed by the fabulous Senior Send-off and we say that modestly Of coursethe annual cocktail party at the house for Seniors only preceded the evening affair The party was held at Winding Hollow Country Club and exemplified the theme Regal Elegance A delishycious buffet dinner and drinks followed by dancing to Rick Monroes Quintet truly made Senior Sendoff the best everBrothers Grossi and Gurevitz chairshymen of the event can be commended for their efforts

As Spring Quarter draws to a close and the Seniors depart in pursuit of their goals we sincerely wish the best to them and hope that the Fraternityhas been and will continue to be a reshywarding and enjoyable experience for them

deadline for the publishers This yearshybook a true accomplishment for the editor and her staff will come off the press during the first part of June A few extra copies will be printed in case any alumni wish to purchase copies ($700)

Work has already begun on next years Chiron with Don Sanders as theincoming editor Anyone interested in a copy of the Chiron or interested in adshyvertising in next years issue pleasewrite to Don Sanders at the OSU Vetshyerinary Clinic 2578 Kenney Road Coshylumbus Ohio

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ALPHA PSI NEWS

ALPHA PSI By JAY FORSYTH Vet Med II

At the last meeting of the past quarshyter officers for the coming year were elected Jim Syler who did an outstandshying job as last years president was given the honor of serving another year Tom Burke was elected Vice Presshyident Tom Adams will serve as recordshying secretary Mike Snyder the new treasurer will be aided by Ron Montshygomery as assistant treasurer Dick

JIM ROSS (Continued from page 17)

University In the summer of 1966 he attended graduate school at Baylor Unishyversity College of Medicine Houston Texas

Dr Ross will receive his Master of Science degree in June of 1967 His thesis is entitled Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog Clinical and Physioshylogical Features

Beginning on July 1st 1967 Dr Rosswill be a member of the faculty at Bay-lor University College of Medicine with joint appointments in the departshyments of Physiology and Surgery

While an undergraduate student DrRoss became a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Omega Tau Sigma social frashyternities and of Phi Eta Sigma Gam-

Knight will serve as chief censor Jay Forsyth will act as corresponding secshyretary and Ed Stoughton will managethe house

Spring Quarter started off in greatstyle with a house party Alpha Psi thencombined with OTS and had a great time at Bridgeview Country Club

The speakers meeting for the past quarter included Dr R C Smith who spoke on the problems of setting upand running your own private practiceand Mr Joseph A Fodey Jr of CityNational Bank who spoke to the chapshyter about bankings relationship to theprofessional man

In the past two quarters the athleticteams of Alpha Psi have done well Boththe Freshmen and Sophomores broughthome trophies for their division titles Tuesday and Friday baseball squads arewarming up for title hopes after winshyning their league play despite the losses of Herb Betts with a broken foot and Brad Smith with a dislocated finshyger

Other spring events of Alpha Psi inshycluded the freshman welcome picnic onMay 15 1967 The sharp wit of Dr D0 Jones and the barbequed chicken were enjoyed by all The high point ofspring quarter was Senior Sendoff heldon May 26 1967 at the Hospitality Innat which the yearly awards were preshysented

ma Sigma Delta and Phi Zeta honorshyaries

Dr Ross will have a publication apshypearing in the Current VeterinaryTherapy 1967 (in press) entitled Dishyagnosis and Surgical Correction of Pashytent Ductus Arteriosus and Pulmonic Stenosis in the Dog On March 29th 1967 Dr Ross talked to the Northwesshytern OVMA on the subject Heart disease in small animal medicine He alshyso will talk on Diagnosis and SurgicalCorrection of the Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog at the National AVMA meeting in Dallas Texas in July of this year

Dr Ross is married He has a daughshyter Stephanie and his wife Marcia isexpecting a new arrival in June

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AVAAA FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Three members of the Junior Class

have been awarded AVMA grants for research in areas of veterinary medishycine Jon Bernstein is investigating speshycific renal and cardiovascular problemsHis sponsor Dr Robert Hamlin and the National Institute of Health are furnishing the necessary materials Usshying a radio-isotope technique Bernsteinwill be studying renal function of dogs in congestive heart failure He will deshytermine glomerular filtration rate renalblood flow and electrolyte excretion patterns before and after digitalization

Robert Stuhlman under the sponsorshyship of Dr Walter Loeb is using his horse His advisors are Dr Albert Gabel grant to develop a practical test which and Dr R B Heath Parameters monishyis diagnostic for the presence of hepa- tored will include arterial and venous

oxygen carbon dioxide and blood pH tocellular damage and its extent The respiratory rate and depth (pneumoshybasis of the test involves demonstrating graph) systolic and diastolic blood arginase activity with constant results pressures pulse rate and electrocardio-Roy Zinn will compare the effects of gram The ultimate goal of the project

succmylcholine alone and promazine is to evaluate the safety of intravenouswith succinylcholine on the cardiovascu- succinylcholine as an agent for casting lar and respiratory systems of the and restraint of the horse

QRowth bull gestationLactation

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Youre The DoctorBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

A female spayed basset hound IV2 years old was presented for rabies imshymunization with 5 ml of phenolized rashybies vaccine Five days later she was reshyturned in a semi-comatous condition The owner stated that her appetite waspoor ever since her vaccination On thisparticular morning she refused to rise and could not walk when forced to rise Thorough questioning eliminated the possible ingestion of any toxin

On physical examination the dog wasnon-responsive to stimuli Her anal sphincter was relaxed her pupils weremiotic and her temperature was 95deg The dog had a respiration rate of 40 perminute her heart rate was 30 per minshyute Hydration appeared normal but the dogs extremities were extremely cold Her urinary bladder was emptyand no urine could be obtained by cathshyeterization Peripheral lymph nodes were not enlarged nor were there any enlargements on abdominal palpation

The laboratory work done on the dogshowed that she had a PCV of 50 WBC of 7800 with 36 segs 7 non-segs 50 lymphs and 7 eos Her BUN was 147

mg100 ml creatinine was 6 mg100 ml Na was 131 meqL Cl was 96 meq L and K was 93 meqL Renal blood flow was 68 mlmin

The dog was given extensive treatshyment while hospitalized including perishytoneal dialysis She showed marked imshyprovement and so was sent home with medication seven days after admission Two days after dismissal the dog died

What is your diagnosis Doctor Answer on page 44

UPJOHN AWARDS Dale Duer was presented the Upjohn

Award for the most outstanding seniorin large animal medicine Dale is marshyried and is a member of the A V M A and Omega Tau Sigma Upon graduashytion Dale plans to enter large animal practice in Pennsylvania

Receiving the Upjohn Award for the most outstanding senior in small anishymal medicine was Guy Lockwood Guy is married and a member of the A V M A Omega Tau Sigma and Phi ZetaHe will be entering the U S Army Vetshyerinary Corps upon graduation

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Herd Health Management By JOHN C LEITE Vet Med IV PHILLIP A LINERODE DVM PhD

Herd Health Management is a totalapproach to large animal veterinarymedicine It combines into one programthe principles of preventive medicine and clinical medicine When properly apshyplied it could rejuvenate the Veterinarshyian-Farmer relationship

The herd health approach is based upon increasing a clients productivityinstead of running a salvage operationto keep him in business Ideally herd health management provides the means to secure optimum results from the entire herd The tools and techniquesused in herd health are principles ideasand experiments9 carefully and tactshyfully implemented

Since management is an integral part of the herd health approach it necessitates full cooperation of both the Veterinarian and the Farmer For this reason careful selection of clients for this approach is not only desirablebut absolutely essential Likewise the approach to secure cooperation is difshyferent for each farmer and is up to theingenuity of the Veterinarian The Farmer and the Veterinarian are not the only persons who should be inshyvolved in this approach to maximum production Often overlooked are lay people within the practice area who have special backgrounds information and talents that could help the proshygram The lay persons in this categoryare county extension agents vocationalagriculture teachers artificial insemshyination technicians local feed mill opshyerators and milking machine repair men The combined efforts of all these people can truly result in increased production and more profits for the farmer

It must be pointed out that the proshygram is long range and maximum beneshyfits cannot be gained in fewer than 5 or 6 generations in a herd Client confidence must be complete and full authority must be entrusted to the Veterinarian0 The type of operation is not important it may be dairy beef

SPRING 1967

swine sheep or equine the principles remain the same

The contractual arrangements beshytween client and practitioner vary withthe type of program and also the geoshygraphic area and its customs Some methods that have been used are13

1 charge on a straight call basis 2 charge by the hour 3 charge by the herd 4 charge for total herd work and

consultation to be done in a giventime (usually by the month or year)

5 charge a percentage of the inshycrease in net profit made by theuse of your service in herd health management

It would be a waste of time to inshyitiate a herd health program without the client being on some type of herd record keeping system For production Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) or Owner Sample (OS) recshyords could be kept with a preference for DHIA Information from producshytion records will aid greatly in detershymining individuals who are worthy of special attention When production records are combined with health recshyords they become invaluable in selectshying stock for the future Recently Morshyrow10 at Cornell University and Boyd Murray and Beck14 at Michigan State developed health records in the form of a folder with moveable colored tabs which indicate the breeding phase of each individual cow These systems however did not attempt to bring toshygether DHIA production records with health records and calf records Bishopand Linerode2 have developed a record keeping system which provides an allshyin-one record keeping system on an 8x10 inch manila folder A unique feashyture of this folder is color tabs to help the dairyman anticipate heat and to indicate the proper time to beginchallenge feeding This new system canbe used by the 1) Dairyman 2) Vetshy

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DANTAFUR(brand of nitrofurantoin)

J racheopharyngitis can lay a horse low fast keep him out of action result in important economic losses to the owner You can return the animal to peak performance quickly with Dantafurreg Administration of Dantafur promptly reverses the course of tracheopharyngitis It relieves coughing and nasal discharge returns the animal to normal breathing

In urinary tract infections Dantafur places imporshytant antibacterial concentrations in the urine within 30 minutes after administration It is effective and practically specific for the infected urinary tract resulting in dramatic cures and animals clinically and bacteriologically free from infection1

DOSAGE Dantafur mdash Tracheopharyngitis (Race Track Cough) mdash for each 225 lbs body weight adshyminister perorally an initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 5 days Urinary Tract Infections mdash for each 225 lbs body weight administer perorally an

initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 7 days and for at least 3 days after urine is sterile SUPPLIED Dantafurmdashoral suspension veterinary Each cc contains 15 mg nitrofurantoin in special suspending medium containing 10 alcohol bottles of 473 cc and 1250 cc As with any potent antibacterial agent administer with caution in cases of marked impairment of renal function safe dosage may be less than usually recommended 1 Witter R S Third Regional Conference on Nitrourans in Veterinary Medicine Atlanta Georgia January 14 1960

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erinarian 3) A I Technician and 4) the Milk Tester This system will proshyvide a means for the dairyman to keepup with his record keeping

Once adequate records are availshyable the veterinarian is ready to tackle the herd health problems In many cases changes must be gradualbecause of the inherent characteristics and attitudes of the client Divisions can be made in order to work on vashyrious aspects of the program and not all aspects need to be carried out at once Five aspects have been adopted in the Herd Health Management Proshygrams in the Wooster Ohio area

1 Mastitis Control 2 Nutrition 3 Fertility and Reproduction 4 Calf Management and Vaccination 5 SanitationThese are discussed below

1 Mastitis Control Mastitis may be defined as an inshy

flammation of the mammary gland reshysulting from the interplay of various etiologic factors their environment andthe host in question From the definishytion it may be assumed that no one causative agent is responsible for masshytitis

Degrees or clinical types of mastitiscan be recognized severe - acute mild shyacute or chronic and subclinical

The severe type can be easily recogshynized and must be treated immediatelyOne recommended treatment would be the administration of Posterior Pituishytary Extract strip out the quarters and administer Liquimycin and sulfa IV with a repeat treatment in 24 hours

The mild and subclinical forms may go unrecognized and therefore some type of screening test should be pershyformed prior to the attachment of the milking machine The most common and easiest test to run is the strip plateor strip cup but some subclinical and even the mild cases may still go unshynoticed The following more elaborate tests may be used to detect these formsof mastitis

California Mastitis Test (CMT)12

Lye Mastitis Test (LMT)4

Michigan Mastitis Test (MMT)4

Liquimycinreg Charles Pfizer amp Co New York NY

SPRING 1967

Whiteside Test9

A Whiteside Test or a Wisconsin Mastitis Test (WMT)12 may be run on bulk tanks to pick up the presence of mastitis in the herd

Further laboratory tests can be conshyducted on sterily collected milk samshyples

Culturemdashstreaking on BAP to obshytain isolation and tentative identishyfication

Catalase Test12mdashbased on the presshyence of catalase contained in sershyum white blood cells epithelial cells colostrum and bacteria

Coagulase Testmdashused to determine Staphoylococcus pathogenicity

Mastitis caused by infestious organshyism can be attributed almost 100 to Streptococcus agalactiia and Staphyshylococcus It has been said that the greatest economic loss is due to Streptococcus agalactiia This organism is easily diagnosed by the use of the Hotis Test and with proper treatment can be eliminated in the cow All cows should be tested once a montih for three months During this period the cows should be arranged in a milking seshyquence according to the results of the test The animals producing a positive test are treated by intramammary inshyfusion of 400000 units of penicillin in18cc of sterile distilled water into each quarter One treatment is usually sufshyficient to eradicate the organism The tests are then conducted every three months for the remainder of he yearand if the herd is free of the organismthey are then conducted at 6 month inshytervals1 To back a positive Hotis Testa Camp Test is run in the laboratory to prove or rule out the presence of a partial hemolizing agent

If Staphylococcus is suspected or proven the only treatment which may prove to be satisfactory is systemic treatment because of the location and pathogenic nature of the organism

Needless to say any cow with masshytitis should be placed last in the milkshying line and extra special sanitary preshycautions taken with her and the equipshyment A cow that fails to respond to treatment or has an irreversible fibshyrotic udder should be culled

Infective agents are not the only etiology for mastitis and the practionshy

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er must maintain a keen eye to locate the other causes or possible causes and then have the condition corrected Othshyer etiologies may be improper milking injured teats and environmental 2 Nutrition

Good nutrition is an obvious and efshyfective tool for the progressive Veterishynarian to use in maintaining high proshyducers in a herd In general over half of the animal deaths are due to malnushytrition because inadequate nutrition will decrease the animals resistance to disshyease Nutrition is the cornerstone of success in herd health management and is often an overlooked factor in infertility It has been incriminated in fetal resorption and anestrus or failure to ovulate5

The basic approach would be to work out average requirements for the herd in digestible protein and Total Digestshyible Nutrients (TDN) A ration comshyposed of corn to supply TDN and soy bean oil meal to supply protein can fulfill the respective requirements and is economical Another rich source of protein is urea which can safely be used up to 3 of the ration It is availshyable in two forms 262 and 285 protein equivalents It is extremely cheap as compared to SBOM and the amount of protein derived from it A word of caution must be inserted here and that is to check with your local feed mill to see if they have the capashycity to mix urea into a ration Trace mineralized salt should be fed free choice

Forages and home grown grains should be tested periodically because it has been found that they may be below estimated textbook values3-5 depending on the type and condition of the growshying season

3 Fertility and Reproduction Fertility checks proper breeding and

a complete obstetrical program in the herd attempt to reach a goal of one calf per year from each cow As menshytioned before nutrition is a prime facshytor in fertility Once it is adequate a successful reproductive program can be launched

A cow should be palpated rectally 30 to 45 days after freshening to deshy

termine if uterine pathology is present or if the animal is ready to be bred on the next heat If pathology is present as indicated by an enlarged flaccid uterus that lacks tone the uterus should be infused with 4 million units of penicillin and 5 grams streptomycin combination mixed with 20cc of Utoshynex (2 mgm ethinyl estradiol and 20 mgm nitrofurathiazide) A cow that is bred on the heat after palpation would place the breeding date approximately 60 days after freshening The cow is then checked at 45-60 days after breedshying to determine if conception has ocshycurred and again prior to being dried off to detect any possible fetal resorpshytion or mummification5 The 45-60 day post breeding check is done to minimize lost time if conception did not occur on the initial breeding or if the fershytilized ova was lost and subsequent heat periods were missed

To aid the student and the clinician in palpating an approximate set of measurements of the whole bulge of the amniotic sac has been proposed

hens egg 40 days baseball 50 days softball 60 days volleyball 70 days basketball 80 days

Additional criteria can be used to apshyproximate the length of the pregnancy

35-60 days mdash slipping of the fetal membranes

85-90 days mdash fremitis of the midshydle uterine artery

110-120 days mdash presence of cotelyshydons

When following a regular program of rectal palpation abnormal conditions can be detected before they become irshyreversible Regular rectal palpation will clearly define the ovarian activity With this method of diagnosis expensive problem cows can be culled from the milk line or treated in an attempt to correct the difficulty In this program an accurate up to date set of records is essential

4 Calf Management and Vaccination This phase begins before the calf is

dropped The cow should be moved to a special maternity stall which is built to accommodate one cow very comfortshyably The calving stalls should be

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cleaned and disinfected between occushypants contain adequate clean bedding have good drainage be warm and have good ventilation The bedding should be changed periodically during the occupants tenure When the calf is dropped the umbilicus should be swabbed with a tincture of iodine and the fetal membranes removed before the cow can ingest them By performshying these simple tasks the new born has been given a much greater chance for survival When the time arrives for the calf to be separated from its mother it should be moved to an inshydividual calf stall When calves are pastthe stage of suckling one another theycan then be moved to clean well bedded and ventilated quarters which will acshycommodate several calves Nutrition is often overlooked in the calf crop in that they are usually fed the formushylated ration of the milking string A separate ration should be calculated forthe calves which is much higher in proshytein to accommodate fast growth The development of the calf during this period will have a direct influence onceshe enters the milk line Before reachshying the age of four months (120 days) calves are vaccinated for Brucellosis TB tested dehorned and have supershynumary teats removed If the owner so desires the calves may be vaccishynated for IBR and BVD at this time

The calf management program proshyvides a total health effort to improve the future milk string of the operashytion The program when followed dilishygently should provide for excellent calf survival with losses less than 1

5 Sanitation Sanitation should be the center of a

herd health program or the hub aroundwhich the other four aspects of the program revolve however it is often the most overlooked or neglected pracshytice in operations today It not only includes the premises but also theanimals and equipment

Junk and trash lying around the farm and especially around the barn and grain storage areas promote rats and mice Junk trash dirt cobwebs inside the barn present physical hazshyards to the animals This material is also a potential health hazard for it may provide the reservoir that disease

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needs in order to be propagated Improper drainage in the stall area

exercise lot and loafing shed promotethe accumulation of urine and feces and increase the possibility of animal foot problems and other health probshylems Manure is always a disposal probshylem but it must be cleaned daily fromthese areas and not allowd to accumushylate Bedding material must be changedfrequently if the animal urinates or dencates within the resting space Cowson which feces are allowed to accumushylate are health hazards to the herd and show a sign of poor management These cows should be washed and brushed to clean this material from their body

The housing and work areas must have adequate lighting so that the opshyerator and the Veterinarian may havemore ideal conditions in which to work More problem areas can be seen in a well lighted area than in a dark or dimly lit area Ventilation should be perfect so as to promote a healthy atshymosphere for the animals and lessen the possibility of money being lost due to respiratory diseases The principlesof admitting ample fresh air high andremoving the tainted air low will rid the area of moisture and foul ammonia fumes from urine

When designing the ventilation sysshytem it must be remembered that when admitting the fresh air the inlets mustbe planned so that there is one inlet of 60 sq in for every 3i2 - 1000 anishymal units The inlets can be placed at various places around the barn or stable area To eject the air a flue should beconsidered only if the distance from the highest point on the barn roof to the ground is 30 ft or more7 The flue size will be determined by the volume of the area to be evacuated It is imshyportant to place a door in the flue nearthe ceiling This door can be opened inthe summer months to aid in movingthe hot air which accumulates near the ceiling If the distance from the highshyest point on the barn roof to the groundis less than 30 ft a mechanical type system must be employed to evacuate the area The same principle applies in the mechanical systemmdashenter the fresh air high and exit the stale air low The number of mechanical units

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needed should be sufficient to provide a complete change of air six times every hour Sanitation also includes themilking parlor the equipment used and the technique employed in the acshytual milking The incidence of mastitis can increase when strict sanitary proshycedures are not adhered to The udder and especially the teats should be washed thoroughly with a mild soap and one of the iodine antiseptic prepshyarations This procedure not only stimushylates milk let down but reduces the possibility of spreading bacteria and contaminating the milk or other udshyders The inflation cups should be dipped into an iodine preparation inshysuring that the whole cup has been cleansed The cups then should be placed on the teat (after a strip plate test has been run) without allowingthem to touch the ground or other obshyjects such as bedding The wash waterand the water used to dip the teat cupsshould be changed at fifteen cow in-

This article is submitted due to interest shown by many and with the firm belief that Herd Health Management is the future of large anishymal practice The article was condensed from a paper prepared by Jack Leite for Dr Line-rode as part of the requirement for VeterinaryPreventive Medicine 740 Much of what is outshylined in this article comes from experience gained on field trips to Wooster Ohio area where herd health management programs are being conducted in five private dairy herds with the cooperation and participation of Drs Don Noah and Robert Mairs

1 A Syllabus on the Bovine Mammary Gland in Health amp Disease Department of Clinishycal Pathology School of Veterinary Medishycine University of California Davis Calishyfornia Schalm OW

2 Bishop J P amp Linerode PA Dairy Herd Health Management Record System Ohio State University 1967

3 Coppock CE amp Tyrell HE Feeding Recshyommendations for Lactating Cows Modern Veterinary Practice vol 48 1 January 1967

4 Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio

3 Drewry GH The Total Program Approachto Herd Health Management Modern Vetshyerinary Practice vol 48 2 February 1967

6 Guss Samuel B Milking Machines and Mastitis Modern Veterinary Practice vol 45 12 October 15 1964

7 Helwig John H Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinshyary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Personal Communication

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tervals throughout the milking proshycedure

The herd health management proshygram does not eliminate the emergencycalls The practitioner should be preshypared for them but the program shouldreduce the frequency of such calls andimproves the environment in which theVeterinarian must work Herd Health Management allows the farmer to proshyduce the greatest quantity of his proshyduct at the highest quality for the least cost A guideline in establishing a herd health program entitled Proshygramming Herd Health can be obshytained from Veterinary Practitioners Counseling Service VM Publishing Inc 144 N Nettleton Street Bonner Springs Kansas This aid to the pracshytitioner is available for Beef or Dairy operations at a nominal fee and may be a worth while investment for any one thinking of doing herd health work

8 Linerode Phillip A Department of Vetershyinary Preventative Medicine College of Vetshyerinary Medicine The Ohio State Universishyty Personal Communication

9 Modern Veterinary Practice vol 15 12 October 15 1964 p 8-62

10 Morrow DA Herd Health Records Corshynell University

11 Rice RE Trends in Large Animal Pracshytice Norden News vol 41 3 1966

12 US Department of Health Education and Welfare Screening Tests for Detection of Abnormal Milk 1965

13 Steere James H Modern Veterinary Pracshytice Reference and Data Service Large Anishymal 4 p A-8-8

14 Veterinary Clinic amp Dairy Dept Cooperashytive Extension Service Michigan State Unishyversity East Lansing Michigan

15 Woelffer EA Modern Veterinary Practice Reference and Data Service Large Animal 4 p A-8-19

YOURE THE DOCTOR (Continued)

Answer This dog had adrenal hyposhycortism or Addisons Disease The diagshynosis was confirmed by performing theThorn Test The preinjection samplecontained 1765 eoscu mm Two hoursafter the injection of ACTH the samshyple contained 1468 eoscu mm After four hours the sample contained 1815eoscu mm Necropsy confirmed thatthe dog had had adrenal hypocortisni

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THE

COLLEGE

DR JAMES N ROSS JR Dr Ross was born in Akron Ohio

on December 18th 1940 He graduatedfrom Norwalk High School as valedicshytorian in 1958 From 1958 to 1960 he attended DePauw University in Green-castle Indiana where he was a Rector Scholar He graduated in 1960

In the Fall of 1960 Dr Ross entered the College of Agriculture at The OhioState University From February to September of 1961 he was an exchangestudent at Freiberg University Freishyberg iBr Germany

From Fall 1961 to Spring 1965 whenhe received his DVM he attended the

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College of Veterinary Medicine at TheOhio State University He was a research assistant in the Department ofPhysiology from 1962 to 1965

In the summer of 1963 Dr Ross worked for COSTEP in the US Public Health Service studying a survey of heart disease in horses In the summer of 1964 he also worked for COSTEP but this time he was stationed at the Armed Forces Institute Of Pathology in Washington DC studying patholshyogy in horses hearts

Since 1965 Dr Ross has been in the Graduate School as a NIH cardiologytrainee in the Department on Physioloshygy and Pharmacology at The Ohio State

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DR ARTHUR I SWAN Dr Arthur I Swan graduated from

the Royal Veterinary College Universishyty of London England in 1953

Following graduation Dr Swan spent four years in mixed general pracshytice He then joined the staff of the Wellcome Foundation Research Laborashytories His work there was connected with anaerobic vaccine production and research His duties included working at a large equine stud that was conshycerned with antisera production Later Dr Swan was transferred to the Well-come Veterinary Research Station for a period of two years At the Research

Station he spent his time working on chemotheraputic testing in large and small animals

In 1963 Dr Swan was appointed to the Animal Pathology Division of theCanadian Federal Department of Agrishyculture Here his duties were in the Veterinary Microbiological Diagnostic and Research Departments

On May 8 1967 Dr Swan joined theDepartment of Veterinary Clinical Pathology of the Ohio State UniversityCollege of Veterinary Medicine He willbe working as a graduate teaching asshysociate in the microbiology laboratory

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1967 GRADUATING SENIORSBy DORTHEA LOWER amp JOSEPH WAGNER Vet Med IV

The seniors who are graduating this June are listed as follows along with degrees activishyties and expected location

Michael R Andrews 3958 Halsey PlaceColumbus OhioFt McPhersonAtlanta GeorgiaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

Donald W- Barton PO Box 365 Hamden OhioHamden-Vinton County

Ohio Mixed Practice AVMA

Richard E Bernard 2233 Arlington AveColumbus OhioDavis-Monthan AFB Tuscon ArizonaUSAF AVMA Alpha Psi

Paul BinnigRD 2 Minerva Ohio 44657Minerva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Alpha Psi

Asst Treas Treas

John Philip BishopMilford Center OhioUniversity of the SouthDept of AgronomyBahia Blanca ArgentinaPurdue Fellow-Internship

in foreign agriculturaldevelopment

AVMA OTS

Robert R Blease Upper Ferry RoadTrenton N JAVMA Alpha Psi

Jack Bonham 5165 Penny PikeSpringfield OhioPublic Health - City of

SpringfieldAVMA

James Booth640 Forest AveZanesville OhioAVMA OTS

Clinic Intern

Gary L Bowman333 S Market Street Loudonville OhioAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

Eugene M Breznock21129 Westwood Rd Fairview Park 26 OhioAVMA Phi Zeta

Melvin Butler Normantown W VaBuckeye Veterinary ClinicPO Box 476 Buckeye ArizonaMixed Practice AVMA

Richard S Dailey614 Jefferson Avenue Charles Town W VaBrentwood Veterinary

HospitalPortsmouth VirginiaSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Clinic Intern

Louis Diluzio 3955 West Sprague RoadNorth Royalton Ohio

44133 Small Animal Practice AVMA

Dale L DuerrRoute 1Bolivar Ohio 44612Quakertown Animal

Hospital40 S 11th St Quakertown Pa 18951Mixed Practice AVMA OTS

Speculum Large AnimalClinician Award

James L Ehler ER Squibb

Pharmaceuticals Animal Products Services New Brunswick New

JerseyAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day

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Rodney FergusonRD 3East Liverpool OhioTexas A amp M University-Resident Large Animal

Clinics AVMA OTS Phi Zeta

Ronald J Frank 4430 Tindall St NWWashington DC 20016Hancock Air Base Syracuse NY 13225AVMA OTS

Dorothea L Freitas Far Hills NJ 07931360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York N Y 10021Internship - Animal

Medical Center AVMA Secy Phi Zeta

Speculum Co-editorClass Secy

Robert A Fritz Sylvania RoadToledo Ohio654 Stimmelmdash14 Columbus Ohio 43223USAF in MichiganAVMA OTS Treas

Speculum Assoc EditorCheron PhotographyEditor

Joseph Grossi JrMeadowbrook Manor Wintersville OhioMontgomery Animal

Hospital7700 Montgomery RoadCincinnati OhioAVMA OTS Class

Secy

Richard H Gurevitz 269-4 N Chesterfield Rd Columbus Ohio 43209Becher Animal HospitalColumbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Awards

Banquet ChairmanOTS Social ChairmanPledge Master GammaClass Pres Award

Dennis D HardyEden Idaho University of CaliforniaDavis California Internship Large Animal

Med amp Sur AVMA

James Hatfield D D 9

Bethel Ohio 45106AVMA

Thomas D HeadingSo Missouri Ave Wellston OhioPaine Air Field Everett WashingtonUSAF AVMA OTS

Daniel R Helvoigt1014 Fremont St Dover Ohio Rt 3 Shippensburg Pa90 Dairy PracticeAVMA Mark Morris

Fellow

William E Hendricks 100 E 6th Street West Lafayette OhioChicago 111 US ArmyAVMA OTS

Robert Henry R 3 Cardington Ohio 43315Bunker Hill Animal

Hospital6220 Jefferson Rd Ashtabula OhioMixed Practice AVMA Class Pres

Ron Jenne 1125 Eastgate RdToledo OBoston Mass after Nov

1567US ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

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Philip Johnson7580 Shawnee Run Rd Cincinnati Ohio656 Riverview Drive Columbus OhioLaboratory Animal

Medicine OSU AVMA

J Thomas LangRFD 1 Big Prairie OhioQuakertown Ani HospQuakertown PennsylvaniaDairy PracticeAVMA OTS

Donald R Kaeser 4871 Olentangy River RdColumbus Ohio121 Harvey AveDoylestown PaBuckingham Animal

HospitalBuckingham PennsylvaniaMixed mainly large

animal practiceAVMA OTS

Randy Kidd7629 Clark State Road Blacklick OhioMixed Practice AVMA OTS

President

Richard C Koritansky14032 GAR HighwayChardon Ohio 44024Abbotsford Veterinary

Clinic Ltd PO Box 96 Abbotsford British

Columbia CanadaLarge Animal PracticeAVMA Alpha Psi

corresponding secygtStudent Council

Dean Karl Kraus co Mr Charles OttoRoute 2 and 6 East Huron OhioTredyffrin Veterinary

Hospital1476 Lancaster Avenue Paoli Pennsylvania 19301Small Animal Practice AVMA class

rep resentati vetreasurer speakersbureau

Communications Chairman of Live Surgery Exhibit

Daniel E Lafontaine RR 1 Alvada Ohio Persidio of San Francisco San Francisco Calif US ArmyAVMA OTS

John C Leite 812 Clinton St Fremont 01877 Oakland Park Columbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Guy C Lockwood125 E Como Avenue Columbus Ohio Pentagon

Washington DC 20315Washington DCUS ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Small AnimalClinician Award

Lance O Lollini 430 Sinclair Street Yorkville OhioFt Bragg North CarolinaUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Phi

Phi Zeta

James C Lonz Route 3 Norwalk OhioYuma Test Station Yuma Arizona US ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta class treasStudent Council

E Clinton LowryForest Hill West Virginia360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York NY 10021Small Animal Internship shy

Animal Medical Center AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Co-chairman Pre-Vet Day Clinic InternClass Treas

Bruce Marhefka Kensington OhioUniversity of Minnesota shy

College of Vet MedSmall Animal Surgery shy

Instructor AVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day listening booth

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jpoundSl^

MANOREWS 0 BAKTON K BERNARD P BINNIG J BISHOP P S L E S E J B O N H A M J BOOTH G BOWMAN G- BREZNOCK MBUTLER R DAILEY

L OILUZIO D DUERR J EHLER PFERGUSON PFRANK D FREITAS RFRITZ RGUREV1TZ 0 HARDY T HATP1ELD T HEADING

S 0 HELVOIGT W HENOMCKS RHENRY PJENNE OPRATT 8SAYLE J GROSS PJOHNSON 0 KAESER RKiOD RKORITANSKY

VtCE-PRSB PRESIDENT SKt shy TREAS

0 KRAUS 0 LAF0NTA1NE JT L A N G J LEITE

COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

G U3CKW000 L LOLLINI J LONZ C lOWfOT

BMARHEfKA CMCCONNELL MMCGANNON JMEHLING L MILEY RMYERS TOWEN DPAULO J PRATT J PURVI S M R A D C U F F E C R A F L O

WRANNELLS BREYNOLDS F BUTLEDQE GRSfKORA RSOLONER JWAGNER RWHJPPS WYAKLIY MYOUSHAK M ZARNETT J ZINES

Charles T McConnell 707 Main Street Toronto OhioLewis Animal HospitalCincinnati OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Phi Zeta

Exhibit Chairman Pre-Vet Day

Mel McGannon Box 143 Windsor OhioBoyds Animal HospitalGeneva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Clinic Intern

John A Mehling 118 N Wood Street Fremont OhioCollege of Veterinary

Medicine Cornell UniversityIthaca NY Dairy Practice shy

Ambulatory ClinicianAVMA

Larry Miley R i Eaton OhioFt Snelling after Nov

15 1967 Minneapolis MinnUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Pre Vet Day guide

Richard A Myersco Richard D Myers1271 Arbor Lane Marion OhioClover Park Veterinary

HospitalTacoma WashingtonSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Terry Owen4671 Venus Road Uniontown Rd 2 Ohio Letterman General HospSurgical amp Physiological

Research San Francisco Cal US ArmyAVMA OTS Pre-

Vet Day

F Daniel Paulo RD 1 Box 100 North Jackson OhioBeale AFB CaliforniaUSAF AVMA class

representative secretaryOTS Student Council

John Carl Pratt Rankins Creek Road South Point Ohio 45680South Point OhioMixed Mostly Large

Animal PracticeAVMA

Orben Pratt Jr Rt 1 St Paris Ohio 43072Ft McArthur Los Angeles CaliforniaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

intramural sports

James Purvis 525 KensingtonMiddletown Ohio 45042Lynch Animal Hospital3410 Tytus AveMiddletown OSmall Animal PracticeAVMA OTS

Intramural SportsStudent Council

Michael Radcliffe 2587 Mt Holyoke DriveColumbus Ohio 43221San Francisco Calif Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Charles P Raflo 6267 Elbrook Avenue Cincinnati Ohio 45237Aberdeen Proving Ground

MarylandUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Recording SecyChief Censor

William T Rannells RFD 1 New Plymouth Ohio

45654New Plymouth OhioMixed Practice AVMA

Bill B ReynoldsRt 3 Box 510Clarksburg W Va Reynolds Animal HospitalClarksburg W Va Mixed Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Student CouncilPresident Master of Ceremonies at AVMA Awards Banquet

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Florence Rutledge11815 Davis Court Lakewood Ohio 44107Gasow Veterinary Hospital1521 North Woodward

Ave Birmingham Michigan

48011 Small Animal Practice AVMA Chiron Editor

Sigma Gamma DeltaBorden Award Phi Zeta

William R SayleChagrin Falls Ohio 44042Amherst Animal HospitalAmherst Ohio 44001Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Intramurals PledgeMaster PresidentStudent Council

Speculum Chiron Gamma Award ClassPresident Merck Award

Richard Soldner 3322 Maize Rd Columbus OhioSpringfield Animal

Hospital36 Warder StreetSpringfield OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS PhiZeta Exhibit Chairman

Pre-Vet Day

George R SikoraHinckley OhioRichards amp Gebauer

AFBKansas City MoUSAF Base

Veterinarian AVMA Phi Zeta

Chiron SpeculumAlpha Psi Award

Joseph L Wagner6921 Salem Road Cincinnati Ohio 45030Laboratory Animal

FacilitySchool of Medicine shy

University of NorthCarolina

Chapel Hill NorthCarolina 27514

Laboratory AnimalMedicine - Graduate School

AVMA OTS PhiZeta AVMAFoundation ScholarshipMark Morris Research

Fellow Pre-Vet Day Speculum

Co-editor

Richard D Whipps1447 Thurell Rd Columbus OhioFort Lewis Spokane WashingtonUS ArmyAVMA Chiron

Business Mgr SpeakersBureau Chairman

William Lee Yakely1309 Cross Street Dover OhioWashington State

University - College ofVeterinary Medicine

Resident AVMA Co-Chairman

Publicity amp Picnic Committee ChairmanLive Surgery ExhibitTreasurer Vice-President OTSChairman Awards

AVMA Auxiliary AwardCommittee MarkMorris Research Fellow

Michael Youshak Huntsburg OhioVeterinary PathologyOhio State University1925 Coffey RoadColumbus OhioPost-Doctoral Graduate

ProgramAVMA President

OTS Phi Zeta PhizerAward Alpha PsiAlumni Award Speculum Chiron Pre-Doctoral FellowPublicity Co-ChairmanPre-Vet Day LiveSurgery ExhibitProgram ChairmanIntramurals

Martin Harold Zarnett 862 E 17th St Brooklyn New York 11230Aqueduct RacetrackSaratoga RacewayAiken amp Camden So Carolina Equine PracticeAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day Guide Asst LiveSurgery Exhibit

Jack B Zines MC 24 Salem OhioLarge Animal PracticeAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

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One of our salesmen made his first calls in this

Seems he started calling on veterinarians 40 years ago He didnt think about selling He thought about animals diseases how to cure them or prevent them Hed recomshymend this that or the other of his products that he thought would be most helpful And the veterinarians liked him Still do In fact nowadays hes calling on the sons of some of his original customers And his point of view is pretty much like that of the rest of our salesmen Their average length of service is 16 years When you stay with a company that long you dont exactly sell it Youre part of it

P I T M A N - M O O R E Division of The Dow Chemical Company Midland Michigan 48640

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PRE-VET DAY - 1967By E DAN WOLF Vet Med Ill

Informative educational professionshyally presentedmdashthese were a few of theevaluations expressed by the 510 pershysons who attended Pre-Vet Day 1967

Following registration tour groups of 25-30 people were formed and each group was led by two student guides through Sisson Hall Goss Pathology Laboratory and the Veterinary ClinicThe program consisted of informative speeches and a tour of the College Theofficial College welcome was extended byDr Walter Venzke This was followed by brief descriptions of the various fields of veterinary medicine Dr Roshybert Hamlin education and research Dr D 0 Jones public health Dr BruceWenger small animal practice Dr James Donham and Dr Clyde Purdy large animal practice Dean Krill then explained the academic and personal qualifications for admission to the colshylege

The tour of the college consisted of explanations and displays illustratingthe function of each department Thesewere prepared and presented by the stushydents and included Anatomy mdash Ron Bockbrader and Dave

HenryBacteriology mdash Jim Guenther Robert

Temple and Stan EichelbergerParasitology mdash Scott Anderson and

Dave Farris Physiology and Pharmacology mdash Frank

Pipers and Steve KurtzerPreventive Medicine mdash Tom Cummins

and Dick Smolen Library mdash Sharon Schumann and Ken

Clever

Pathology mdash Tom Burke Mike Wanskyand Bruce McCullough

Small Animal Medicine mdash Bill Sayle andTed Panhuis

Small Animal Surgery mdash Dick Soldner Ralph Urmson and Doug Cbatney

Large Animal Medicine mdash Harold Fershyguson Bill Reynolds and Fred Adams

Large Animal Surgery mdash Dale Duerr Dick Dailey and Dave McDonald

Ambulatory mdash James Booth Ames Alshylen and Gary Bowman

Clinical Pathology mdash Charles McConshynell Jack Zines and Bill Sternecker

Radiology mdash James Syler and Victoria Voith Some of the departmental programs

presented were Evaluation of Various Physiological Parameters Studies on Gnotobiotic Animals The Physical Exshyamination Basic Surgical Equipment Preparation and Common Surgical Sitshyuations Foaling Rumenotomy and GasAnesthesia Equipment

The majority of those attending Pre-Vet Day seemed to be quite interestedand awed by the varied knowledge andthe professional qualifications of the veterinarian

Lunch was served at both Sisson Hall and the Clinic by the Pre-Vet Club Much work was required and several problems had to be overcome to presentto the public the true picture of veterinshyary medicine (Not the least of these problems was presenting the professionshyal aspects of veterinary medicine in a garage) Everyone who worked so hard to present Pre-Vet Day 1967 deshyserves hearty congratulations

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REPORT ON SPEAKERS BUREAUBy RICHARD WHIPPS Vet Med IV This year the Speakers Bureau of

the AVMA Student Chapter has enshyjoyed its most successful year to date The Speakers Bureau was organizedthree years ago in an effort to inform the public of the broad scope of vetershyinary medicine Junior and senior vetshyerinary students have presented our profession to 4-H Clubs AgriculturalClubs and Survey Classes high schoolsand even to elementary school classesEach speaking engagement is usually handled by a team consisting of one senior and one junior with the senior student handling most of the speaking chores A stimulating question-and-anshyswer period follows almost every preshysentation

Student speakers participated in cashyreer-day programs in high schools throughout central Ohio including Coshylumbus Newark Lancaster and Censhyterburg Speakers presented mogtre specshyialized topics within the realm of vetshyerinary medicine to the Grove City Horsemasters 4-H Club the Wilmingshyton College Agricultural Club and Ag

AVMA NEWS By JUDY SAUERBREI Vet Med Ill This quarter as usual the student

chapter has been very active Pre-Vet Day (held Saturday April 15th) was a success with 510 people registering TheChiron the AVMA sponsored Colshylege of Veterinary Medicine yearbook has been mailed to the publishers and will be delivered to the student body byearly June The very active Speakers Bureau will continue to fulfill requestsfor guest speakers received throughoutthe summer New chairman of this comshymittee will be senior Tom Cummins Also this summer the Live Surgery exshyhibit which is presently at the Center of Science and Industry will be movedto Cincinnati for the Hamilton County Fair and then back to Columbus for The Ohio State Fair in August-Septemshyber

Members have enjoyed some very inshyteresting and informative programsthis quarter including a fine talk by ColScott Radcliff of the Ohio State Patrol

Survey classes and the Central Ohio Cocker Spaniel Club Topics for discusshysion included careers in veterinary medshyicine latest theories and developments in our profession various aspects ofveterinary preventive medicine and therole of the veterinarian in aerospace medicine The record for the longest distance traveled by student speakersthis year is held by the team who spoketo the Beta Beta Beta biological honorshyary of Marietta College

As chairman of the Speakers Bushyreau I would like to thank all the stushydents who served as speakers this yearEach person served his profession wellI am certain that the outreach of the Speakers Bureau will continue to grow as it presents the expanding field of veterinary medicine to the general pubshylic whose knowledge of our profession is in too many instances sadly lackingI would also like to express a specialthanks to Dr Donald Gisler of our facshyulty for giving his time and talents so that our presentations could be of the best possible quality

on Traffic Accidents and a large anishymal panel Members of this panel wereDr Albert Gabel of the OSU Veterinshyary Clinic Dr D G Miller SugarcreekDr Warren Amling London Dr Ed Kennedy Miamiville Dr Donald Moss-burger Bloomingburg Ohio

Other events for members of Student Chapter of AVMA included the Anshynual Awards Banquet on May 19th atthe Grandview Inn and the Spring Picshynic held on May 24th at Big Bear Farms

At the last meeting of the Student Chapter for Spring Quarter 1967 elecshytion of officers was held New officers for the academic year of 1967-68 will be President - Tom Hickey President-elect - Dick Hersman Vice President shyRalph Urmson Secretary - Sharon Schuman Treasurer - Bruce McCullocih These new officers have the great reshysponsibility of continuing to maintain the high standards of leadership exhibshyited by their predecessors

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Ohio State Fair Veterinary Medicine ExhibitBy DAVE ZIMMERMAN Vet Med Ill

For quite a few years the Ohio StateUniversity Student Chapter of the AVMA has presented an informative exhibit concerning veterinary medicineat the Ohio State Fair Last year this project took on a much wider scope Forthe first time live surgery was pershyformed in a modern portable surgical operating room Large pleriglass winshydows and closed circuit television enshyhanced the vantage point of the viewshying public

Again this summer the project will be presented at the Ohio State Fair Present plans call for two surgical proshycedures to be performed daily bylicensed and academy practicing veterishynarians representing their local acadeshymies with narration by students Talks

demonstrations and movies presentingthe complete and varied field of veterishynary medicine will round out the daily program

The purpose of the exhibit is to edushycate the public as to the wide rangeand high quality of service provided bythe modern veterinary clinic Althoughthis project is presented by the stushydents its aim is recognition of public and private practitioners through pubshylic exposure and education All demonshystrations will be presented in the proshyfessional and exacting way that modernveterinary medicine is practiced We feel certain that after a person has witshynessed the procedures presented he willbe much more aware of the ability posshysessed by his veterinarian

Columbus Only Motor - Inn Within

Walking Distance of the Campus

OHIO STATER INNDirectly across the street

from from the Ohio State Campus

For Reservations WriteOhio Stater Inn

Mr Melvin Circle Manager2060 North High Street at East Woodruff

Columbus Ohio 43201or telephone 294-5381 Columbus Ohio

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Canine Research Projects SupportedBy The Columbus Collie Club

The Columbus Collie Club donated $3000 to the Ohio State University Vetshyerinary Medicine to be used in Canine research projects The grant was dishyvided among the following projectswhich will be conducted between June 1967 and June 1968 by seniors in the college

Richard Kight Tom Cummins Bob Smatt Dick Flinn L Joe Starcher

FULL THICKNESS BONE GRAPHS IN THE CANINE Seniors Tom Cumshymins Dick Flinn Gene Hofacre Bob Smatt Advisor Dr Richard Rudy

Full thickness bone graphs will be employed in the femur and radius of mature 25-40 pound beagle type dogsThe periosteum of the femur will be inshycised and elevated and the shaft transhysected proximally and distally and thenremoved The shaft will then be splitlongitudinally with care being taken to preserve the endosteum One-half will be discarded the other replaced in its former position The periosteum will beclosed Fixation will consist of an intrashymedullary pin and orthopedic wire Onthe anterior limb the radius will be exshyposed the periosteum split and eleshyvated A 25 cm piece of radius will then be removed Prior to this procedshyure an incision will have been made at the distal portion of the 7th rib and a

5 cm piece of rib removed with the periosteum intact This piece will be cut in half transversely The two secshytions side by side will be secured in theradial defect A Kirsthner splint andorthopedic wire will be used for fixation

The dogs will then be observed for eight weeks and the fracture sites willbe evaluated as to the strength and stashybility of the union

During the course of the study the dogs will be handled as much like acshytual clinical cases as possible Strict aseptic procedures will be carried out and the dogs will be adequately medishycated as would a clinical case

If shown to be successful the typeof graph described above may be utilshyized clinically in restoration of the conshytinuity of bones too severely fractured to be reduced by simpler and convenshytional techniques

QUANTITATIVE DETERMINAshyTION OF CORTICOSTEROIDS PROshyDUCED BY THE ADRENAL CORshyTEX Senior L Joe Starcher Advisshyors Dr Philip W Murdick Dr Edshyward F Donovan

From the results of this project it ishoped that the normal canine corticosshyteroid levels can be determined and a routine testing procedure established Itis possible that such a test would be asuseful as the blood test urinalysis andfecal examination when a complete exshyamination of a dog is done

A METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE RESIN-SPONGE TRIIODOTHROshyNINE UPTAKE TECHNIQUE IN DEshyTECTING THYROID FUNCTION OF THE DOG Senior Victoria L Voith Advisor Dr Walter Lobe

This experiment entails keeping twelve dogs-four in euthyroid four in hypothyroid and four in hyperthyroid states Blood samples will be drawn bishyweekly for three weeks and used to pershyform the resin-sponge triiodothyronine uptake test When radioactive iodine labeled triiodothyronine (T-3) is added

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to a serum sample it first saturates the It is unlikely although possible that unoccupied thyroid-binding sites on the practitioner will perform this tech-Thyroid Binding Protein (TBP) The nique himself but the blood sample remaining T-3 is taken up by the resin- could easily be sent to a laboratory sponge added to the sample The total equipped to perform such a test amount of T-3 is determined Then afshyter incubation the resin-sponge is CLINICAL EVALUATION OF RE-rinsed free of serum and with it the T-3 NAL F U N C T I O N Senior Dick bound to TBP The radioactivity re- Knight Advisor Dr Robert Candon maining in the resin-sponge is then de- The present clinical laboratory parashytermined The percent of radioactive meters for evaluation of renal function T-3 taken up by the resin-sponge is in- are incomplete and poorly understoodversely proportional to the unsaturated The dog that has renal impairment butsites on the TBG and directly propor- does not show frank clinical evidence of tional to the amount of endogenous thy- impairment is the animal that needs roxine and triiodothyronine circulating clinical outlines This animal is the one

The invitro technique used in this ex- that can be helped the most with earlyperiment has been shown to be an ac- therapy andor prophylactic regimes curate and safe method of assessing The purpose of the study is to define thyroid function in human beings The and evaluate clinical parameters for theexperiment is designed to determine the evaluations of glomerular filtration ratevalidity of this test in detection of the renal plasma flow tubular maximum canine thyroid function Since this tech- and sodium-potassium excretion in nique employs the use of serum and nephretic dogs Then if possible the de-does not expose the dog to radioactive velopment of a simple clinical test to iodine it has the possibilities of becom- accomplish these procedures will be atshying of diagnostic use to the practitioner tempted

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A new concept in controlling the bovine respiratory complex Stress plus respiratory viral agents act as the triggering mechanism for secondary bacterial infection in calves under range conditions during shipment and in the feedlot New Rea-Plex vaccine helps break the triggering pathogenic chain of this respiratory complex in stressed calves by controlling the two most common viral diseasesmdashParainfluenza-3 and IBR One 2 cc dose of Rea-Plex stimulates protection in susceptible cattle against both PI-3 and IBRmdashand offers the advantage of being a tissue culture origin desiccated modified live virus vaccine Safe potent and effective confirmed in field trials by bovine practitioners with no adverse reactions reported in cattle even under severe stress conditions Available 5 and 25 dose vials ^ mNew

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Another significant advancement in veterinary medicine from Fort Dodge

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NIH HEART GRANTBy FRANK PIPERS Vet Med Ill

Mutual interest on the part of a numshyber of research groups on campus conshyceived the idea of synthesizing capabilishyties and efforts with the end result beshying the formation and aquisition of an NIH grant entitled Biology of the Heart Participating in this endeavor are the Department of Veterinary Physhysiology College of Veterinary Medicineand the Departments of Physiology Medicine and Pathology College of Medicine

The two co-principal directors are Drs Smith and Warren There is a six man Steering Committee and approxishymately 20 to 25 professional efforts with an additional 15 to 20 man technical staff

The overall objective is to study allaspects of the normal and failing heartThe principle endeavors of this project will be

1) ultra microscopy of the failing heart

2) metabolism of the failing rat heart

3) bloodflow to visera and peripheral circulation

4) hemodynamics of the horse5) cardiac and renal function in dogs

with heart disease 6) ventricular and atrial activation

processes in cattle 7) uses of the computer in analyzing

electrocardiographic data of varshyious species

The nucleus of the microscopic workis at Starling Loving Hall where thereis an electron microscope The nucleus for macroscopic experimentation is at

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Sisson Hall where the installation of a $200000 facility has just been comshypleted The facility consists of

1) office space and a conference room2) two modern biochemistry laborashy

tories 3) One general research laboratory 4) a catheterization laboratory with

an adjoining dark room5) large animal laboratory with tilt-

table 6) a laboratory animal lab7) large walk-in refrigerator8) small animal holding quarters9) large animal holding quarters

10) mobile laboratory (which contains2 labs equipment area large anishymal holding stocks and a dark room)

The facilities encompass 6000 squarefeet and are located in the southern half of the basement of Sisson Hall

Although this is an interdisciplinary effort there are obvious advantages toour College

1) It will bring equipment and techshynology to our school

2) It will aid in training and teachshying of graduate veterinarians

3) We can glean information from research to apply to a clinical medium

4) We will have prestige from the success of the faculty

5) We should have the ability to atshytract high quality people to comeand study at our College

We are very proud of the developshyment of this facility and we wish it well

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Such encouragement of risky do-it-yourself client competition is not a factor when you use EVA

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OMEGA TAU SIGAAA NEWS By RONALD H BOCKBRADER

For all those non believers it can honshyestly be said that Spring has finally arshyrived in all its splendor despite severalfalse attempts to break loose from Winshyters tight grasp Needless to say the brothers of Omega Tau Sigma were eagerly awaiting Spring and met it with great enthusiasm

The first major item of business Spring quarter was the election of ofshyficers for the coming year Those elected were as follows

PresidentmdashDon Heagren Vice PresidentmdashAllen Bryant SecretarymdashRon Bockbrader TreasurermdashRich Hersman Assistant TreasurermdashTom Isaac

THE CHIRONBy DON SANDERS Vet Med Ill

This last year the Student Chapter ofthe AVMA voted to establish a yearshybook for the College of Veterinary Medshyicine The yearbook was named The Chiron The name refers to the centaur in Greek mythology who was renownedfor his skill in Medicine

The yearbook was launched by Florshyence Rutledge as editor Penalized byinexperience and a late start Miss Rutshyledge and the staff managed to meet the

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Sergeant-at-ArmsmdashJerry WolfParliamentarianmdashRalph Urmson ChaplainmdashRalph Broshes Rush ChairmanmdashJim Cobb Social ChairmenmdashJoe Starcher

Dave MacDonald Ron Conklin

House ManagermdashCharles Steinman The Brothers of Omega Tau Sigma

are sincere in thanking the retiring ofshyficers after an outstanding year and a job well done

After a fine intramural basketball season which netted a championship troshyphy OTS has again offered its chalshylenge in intramural events with severaltop softball teams

Socially Spring Quarter was again climaxed by the fabulous Senior Send-off and we say that modestly Of coursethe annual cocktail party at the house for Seniors only preceded the evening affair The party was held at Winding Hollow Country Club and exemplified the theme Regal Elegance A delishycious buffet dinner and drinks followed by dancing to Rick Monroes Quintet truly made Senior Sendoff the best everBrothers Grossi and Gurevitz chairshymen of the event can be commended for their efforts

As Spring Quarter draws to a close and the Seniors depart in pursuit of their goals we sincerely wish the best to them and hope that the Fraternityhas been and will continue to be a reshywarding and enjoyable experience for them

deadline for the publishers This yearshybook a true accomplishment for the editor and her staff will come off the press during the first part of June A few extra copies will be printed in case any alumni wish to purchase copies ($700)

Work has already begun on next years Chiron with Don Sanders as theincoming editor Anyone interested in a copy of the Chiron or interested in adshyvertising in next years issue pleasewrite to Don Sanders at the OSU Vetshyerinary Clinic 2578 Kenney Road Coshylumbus Ohio

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ALPHA PSI NEWS

ALPHA PSI By JAY FORSYTH Vet Med II

At the last meeting of the past quarshyter officers for the coming year were elected Jim Syler who did an outstandshying job as last years president was given the honor of serving another year Tom Burke was elected Vice Presshyident Tom Adams will serve as recordshying secretary Mike Snyder the new treasurer will be aided by Ron Montshygomery as assistant treasurer Dick

JIM ROSS (Continued from page 17)

University In the summer of 1966 he attended graduate school at Baylor Unishyversity College of Medicine Houston Texas

Dr Ross will receive his Master of Science degree in June of 1967 His thesis is entitled Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog Clinical and Physioshylogical Features

Beginning on July 1st 1967 Dr Rosswill be a member of the faculty at Bay-lor University College of Medicine with joint appointments in the departshyments of Physiology and Surgery

While an undergraduate student DrRoss became a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Omega Tau Sigma social frashyternities and of Phi Eta Sigma Gam-

Knight will serve as chief censor Jay Forsyth will act as corresponding secshyretary and Ed Stoughton will managethe house

Spring Quarter started off in greatstyle with a house party Alpha Psi thencombined with OTS and had a great time at Bridgeview Country Club

The speakers meeting for the past quarter included Dr R C Smith who spoke on the problems of setting upand running your own private practiceand Mr Joseph A Fodey Jr of CityNational Bank who spoke to the chapshyter about bankings relationship to theprofessional man

In the past two quarters the athleticteams of Alpha Psi have done well Boththe Freshmen and Sophomores broughthome trophies for their division titles Tuesday and Friday baseball squads arewarming up for title hopes after winshyning their league play despite the losses of Herb Betts with a broken foot and Brad Smith with a dislocated finshyger

Other spring events of Alpha Psi inshycluded the freshman welcome picnic onMay 15 1967 The sharp wit of Dr D0 Jones and the barbequed chicken were enjoyed by all The high point ofspring quarter was Senior Sendoff heldon May 26 1967 at the Hospitality Innat which the yearly awards were preshysented

ma Sigma Delta and Phi Zeta honorshyaries

Dr Ross will have a publication apshypearing in the Current VeterinaryTherapy 1967 (in press) entitled Dishyagnosis and Surgical Correction of Pashytent Ductus Arteriosus and Pulmonic Stenosis in the Dog On March 29th 1967 Dr Ross talked to the Northwesshytern OVMA on the subject Heart disease in small animal medicine He alshyso will talk on Diagnosis and SurgicalCorrection of the Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog at the National AVMA meeting in Dallas Texas in July of this year

Dr Ross is married He has a daughshyter Stephanie and his wife Marcia isexpecting a new arrival in June

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AVAAA FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Three members of the Junior Class

have been awarded AVMA grants for research in areas of veterinary medishycine Jon Bernstein is investigating speshycific renal and cardiovascular problemsHis sponsor Dr Robert Hamlin and the National Institute of Health are furnishing the necessary materials Usshying a radio-isotope technique Bernsteinwill be studying renal function of dogs in congestive heart failure He will deshytermine glomerular filtration rate renalblood flow and electrolyte excretion patterns before and after digitalization

Robert Stuhlman under the sponsorshyship of Dr Walter Loeb is using his horse His advisors are Dr Albert Gabel grant to develop a practical test which and Dr R B Heath Parameters monishyis diagnostic for the presence of hepa- tored will include arterial and venous

oxygen carbon dioxide and blood pH tocellular damage and its extent The respiratory rate and depth (pneumoshybasis of the test involves demonstrating graph) systolic and diastolic blood arginase activity with constant results pressures pulse rate and electrocardio-Roy Zinn will compare the effects of gram The ultimate goal of the project

succmylcholine alone and promazine is to evaluate the safety of intravenouswith succinylcholine on the cardiovascu- succinylcholine as an agent for casting lar and respiratory systems of the and restraint of the horse

QRowth bull gestationLactation

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SPRING 1967 37

Youre The DoctorBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

A female spayed basset hound IV2 years old was presented for rabies imshymunization with 5 ml of phenolized rashybies vaccine Five days later she was reshyturned in a semi-comatous condition The owner stated that her appetite waspoor ever since her vaccination On thisparticular morning she refused to rise and could not walk when forced to rise Thorough questioning eliminated the possible ingestion of any toxin

On physical examination the dog wasnon-responsive to stimuli Her anal sphincter was relaxed her pupils weremiotic and her temperature was 95deg The dog had a respiration rate of 40 perminute her heart rate was 30 per minshyute Hydration appeared normal but the dogs extremities were extremely cold Her urinary bladder was emptyand no urine could be obtained by cathshyeterization Peripheral lymph nodes were not enlarged nor were there any enlargements on abdominal palpation

The laboratory work done on the dogshowed that she had a PCV of 50 WBC of 7800 with 36 segs 7 non-segs 50 lymphs and 7 eos Her BUN was 147

mg100 ml creatinine was 6 mg100 ml Na was 131 meqL Cl was 96 meq L and K was 93 meqL Renal blood flow was 68 mlmin

The dog was given extensive treatshyment while hospitalized including perishytoneal dialysis She showed marked imshyprovement and so was sent home with medication seven days after admission Two days after dismissal the dog died

What is your diagnosis Doctor Answer on page 44

UPJOHN AWARDS Dale Duer was presented the Upjohn

Award for the most outstanding seniorin large animal medicine Dale is marshyried and is a member of the A V M A and Omega Tau Sigma Upon graduashytion Dale plans to enter large animal practice in Pennsylvania

Receiving the Upjohn Award for the most outstanding senior in small anishymal medicine was Guy Lockwood Guy is married and a member of the A V M A Omega Tau Sigma and Phi ZetaHe will be entering the U S Army Vetshyerinary Corps upon graduation

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Herd Health Management By JOHN C LEITE Vet Med IV PHILLIP A LINERODE DVM PhD

Herd Health Management is a totalapproach to large animal veterinarymedicine It combines into one programthe principles of preventive medicine and clinical medicine When properly apshyplied it could rejuvenate the Veterinarshyian-Farmer relationship

The herd health approach is based upon increasing a clients productivityinstead of running a salvage operationto keep him in business Ideally herd health management provides the means to secure optimum results from the entire herd The tools and techniquesused in herd health are principles ideasand experiments9 carefully and tactshyfully implemented

Since management is an integral part of the herd health approach it necessitates full cooperation of both the Veterinarian and the Farmer For this reason careful selection of clients for this approach is not only desirablebut absolutely essential Likewise the approach to secure cooperation is difshyferent for each farmer and is up to theingenuity of the Veterinarian The Farmer and the Veterinarian are not the only persons who should be inshyvolved in this approach to maximum production Often overlooked are lay people within the practice area who have special backgrounds information and talents that could help the proshygram The lay persons in this categoryare county extension agents vocationalagriculture teachers artificial insemshyination technicians local feed mill opshyerators and milking machine repair men The combined efforts of all these people can truly result in increased production and more profits for the farmer

It must be pointed out that the proshygram is long range and maximum beneshyfits cannot be gained in fewer than 5 or 6 generations in a herd Client confidence must be complete and full authority must be entrusted to the Veterinarian0 The type of operation is not important it may be dairy beef

SPRING 1967

swine sheep or equine the principles remain the same

The contractual arrangements beshytween client and practitioner vary withthe type of program and also the geoshygraphic area and its customs Some methods that have been used are13

1 charge on a straight call basis 2 charge by the hour 3 charge by the herd 4 charge for total herd work and

consultation to be done in a giventime (usually by the month or year)

5 charge a percentage of the inshycrease in net profit made by theuse of your service in herd health management

It would be a waste of time to inshyitiate a herd health program without the client being on some type of herd record keeping system For production Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) or Owner Sample (OS) recshyords could be kept with a preference for DHIA Information from producshytion records will aid greatly in detershymining individuals who are worthy of special attention When production records are combined with health recshyords they become invaluable in selectshying stock for the future Recently Morshyrow10 at Cornell University and Boyd Murray and Beck14 at Michigan State developed health records in the form of a folder with moveable colored tabs which indicate the breeding phase of each individual cow These systems however did not attempt to bring toshygether DHIA production records with health records and calf records Bishopand Linerode2 have developed a record keeping system which provides an allshyin-one record keeping system on an 8x10 inch manila folder A unique feashyture of this folder is color tabs to help the dairyman anticipate heat and to indicate the proper time to beginchallenge feeding This new system canbe used by the 1) Dairyman 2) Vetshy

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back inthe winners

circlewith

DANTAFUR(brand of nitrofurantoin)

J racheopharyngitis can lay a horse low fast keep him out of action result in important economic losses to the owner You can return the animal to peak performance quickly with Dantafurreg Administration of Dantafur promptly reverses the course of tracheopharyngitis It relieves coughing and nasal discharge returns the animal to normal breathing

In urinary tract infections Dantafur places imporshytant antibacterial concentrations in the urine within 30 minutes after administration It is effective and practically specific for the infected urinary tract resulting in dramatic cures and animals clinically and bacteriologically free from infection1

DOSAGE Dantafur mdash Tracheopharyngitis (Race Track Cough) mdash for each 225 lbs body weight adshyminister perorally an initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 5 days Urinary Tract Infections mdash for each 225 lbs body weight administer perorally an

initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 7 days and for at least 3 days after urine is sterile SUPPLIED Dantafurmdashoral suspension veterinary Each cc contains 15 mg nitrofurantoin in special suspending medium containing 10 alcohol bottles of 473 cc and 1250 cc As with any potent antibacterial agent administer with caution in cases of marked impairment of renal function safe dosage may be less than usually recommended 1 Witter R S Third Regional Conference on Nitrourans in Veterinary Medicine Atlanta Georgia January 14 1960

Available through your professional veterinary distributor

bdquo J ~ j L Nitrofurans-a unique class ol antimicrobialsorigpnated and developed by

JF^ EATON LABORATORIES laquoato^raquo Division of The Norwich Pharmacal Company ^ NORWICH NEW YORK

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erinarian 3) A I Technician and 4) the Milk Tester This system will proshyvide a means for the dairyman to keepup with his record keeping

Once adequate records are availshyable the veterinarian is ready to tackle the herd health problems In many cases changes must be gradualbecause of the inherent characteristics and attitudes of the client Divisions can be made in order to work on vashyrious aspects of the program and not all aspects need to be carried out at once Five aspects have been adopted in the Herd Health Management Proshygrams in the Wooster Ohio area

1 Mastitis Control 2 Nutrition 3 Fertility and Reproduction 4 Calf Management and Vaccination 5 SanitationThese are discussed below

1 Mastitis Control Mastitis may be defined as an inshy

flammation of the mammary gland reshysulting from the interplay of various etiologic factors their environment andthe host in question From the definishytion it may be assumed that no one causative agent is responsible for masshytitis

Degrees or clinical types of mastitiscan be recognized severe - acute mild shyacute or chronic and subclinical

The severe type can be easily recogshynized and must be treated immediatelyOne recommended treatment would be the administration of Posterior Pituishytary Extract strip out the quarters and administer Liquimycin and sulfa IV with a repeat treatment in 24 hours

The mild and subclinical forms may go unrecognized and therefore some type of screening test should be pershyformed prior to the attachment of the milking machine The most common and easiest test to run is the strip plateor strip cup but some subclinical and even the mild cases may still go unshynoticed The following more elaborate tests may be used to detect these formsof mastitis

California Mastitis Test (CMT)12

Lye Mastitis Test (LMT)4

Michigan Mastitis Test (MMT)4

Liquimycinreg Charles Pfizer amp Co New York NY

SPRING 1967

Whiteside Test9

A Whiteside Test or a Wisconsin Mastitis Test (WMT)12 may be run on bulk tanks to pick up the presence of mastitis in the herd

Further laboratory tests can be conshyducted on sterily collected milk samshyples

Culturemdashstreaking on BAP to obshytain isolation and tentative identishyfication

Catalase Test12mdashbased on the presshyence of catalase contained in sershyum white blood cells epithelial cells colostrum and bacteria

Coagulase Testmdashused to determine Staphoylococcus pathogenicity

Mastitis caused by infestious organshyism can be attributed almost 100 to Streptococcus agalactiia and Staphyshylococcus It has been said that the greatest economic loss is due to Streptococcus agalactiia This organism is easily diagnosed by the use of the Hotis Test and with proper treatment can be eliminated in the cow All cows should be tested once a montih for three months During this period the cows should be arranged in a milking seshyquence according to the results of the test The animals producing a positive test are treated by intramammary inshyfusion of 400000 units of penicillin in18cc of sterile distilled water into each quarter One treatment is usually sufshyficient to eradicate the organism The tests are then conducted every three months for the remainder of he yearand if the herd is free of the organismthey are then conducted at 6 month inshytervals1 To back a positive Hotis Testa Camp Test is run in the laboratory to prove or rule out the presence of a partial hemolizing agent

If Staphylococcus is suspected or proven the only treatment which may prove to be satisfactory is systemic treatment because of the location and pathogenic nature of the organism

Needless to say any cow with masshytitis should be placed last in the milkshying line and extra special sanitary preshycautions taken with her and the equipshyment A cow that fails to respond to treatment or has an irreversible fibshyrotic udder should be culled

Infective agents are not the only etiology for mastitis and the practionshy

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er must maintain a keen eye to locate the other causes or possible causes and then have the condition corrected Othshyer etiologies may be improper milking injured teats and environmental 2 Nutrition

Good nutrition is an obvious and efshyfective tool for the progressive Veterishynarian to use in maintaining high proshyducers in a herd In general over half of the animal deaths are due to malnushytrition because inadequate nutrition will decrease the animals resistance to disshyease Nutrition is the cornerstone of success in herd health management and is often an overlooked factor in infertility It has been incriminated in fetal resorption and anestrus or failure to ovulate5

The basic approach would be to work out average requirements for the herd in digestible protein and Total Digestshyible Nutrients (TDN) A ration comshyposed of corn to supply TDN and soy bean oil meal to supply protein can fulfill the respective requirements and is economical Another rich source of protein is urea which can safely be used up to 3 of the ration It is availshyable in two forms 262 and 285 protein equivalents It is extremely cheap as compared to SBOM and the amount of protein derived from it A word of caution must be inserted here and that is to check with your local feed mill to see if they have the capashycity to mix urea into a ration Trace mineralized salt should be fed free choice

Forages and home grown grains should be tested periodically because it has been found that they may be below estimated textbook values3-5 depending on the type and condition of the growshying season

3 Fertility and Reproduction Fertility checks proper breeding and

a complete obstetrical program in the herd attempt to reach a goal of one calf per year from each cow As menshytioned before nutrition is a prime facshytor in fertility Once it is adequate a successful reproductive program can be launched

A cow should be palpated rectally 30 to 45 days after freshening to deshy

termine if uterine pathology is present or if the animal is ready to be bred on the next heat If pathology is present as indicated by an enlarged flaccid uterus that lacks tone the uterus should be infused with 4 million units of penicillin and 5 grams streptomycin combination mixed with 20cc of Utoshynex (2 mgm ethinyl estradiol and 20 mgm nitrofurathiazide) A cow that is bred on the heat after palpation would place the breeding date approximately 60 days after freshening The cow is then checked at 45-60 days after breedshying to determine if conception has ocshycurred and again prior to being dried off to detect any possible fetal resorpshytion or mummification5 The 45-60 day post breeding check is done to minimize lost time if conception did not occur on the initial breeding or if the fershytilized ova was lost and subsequent heat periods were missed

To aid the student and the clinician in palpating an approximate set of measurements of the whole bulge of the amniotic sac has been proposed

hens egg 40 days baseball 50 days softball 60 days volleyball 70 days basketball 80 days

Additional criteria can be used to apshyproximate the length of the pregnancy

35-60 days mdash slipping of the fetal membranes

85-90 days mdash fremitis of the midshydle uterine artery

110-120 days mdash presence of cotelyshydons

When following a regular program of rectal palpation abnormal conditions can be detected before they become irshyreversible Regular rectal palpation will clearly define the ovarian activity With this method of diagnosis expensive problem cows can be culled from the milk line or treated in an attempt to correct the difficulty In this program an accurate up to date set of records is essential

4 Calf Management and Vaccination This phase begins before the calf is

dropped The cow should be moved to a special maternity stall which is built to accommodate one cow very comfortshyably The calving stalls should be

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cleaned and disinfected between occushypants contain adequate clean bedding have good drainage be warm and have good ventilation The bedding should be changed periodically during the occupants tenure When the calf is dropped the umbilicus should be swabbed with a tincture of iodine and the fetal membranes removed before the cow can ingest them By performshying these simple tasks the new born has been given a much greater chance for survival When the time arrives for the calf to be separated from its mother it should be moved to an inshydividual calf stall When calves are pastthe stage of suckling one another theycan then be moved to clean well bedded and ventilated quarters which will acshycommodate several calves Nutrition is often overlooked in the calf crop in that they are usually fed the formushylated ration of the milking string A separate ration should be calculated forthe calves which is much higher in proshytein to accommodate fast growth The development of the calf during this period will have a direct influence onceshe enters the milk line Before reachshying the age of four months (120 days) calves are vaccinated for Brucellosis TB tested dehorned and have supershynumary teats removed If the owner so desires the calves may be vaccishynated for IBR and BVD at this time

The calf management program proshyvides a total health effort to improve the future milk string of the operashytion The program when followed dilishygently should provide for excellent calf survival with losses less than 1

5 Sanitation Sanitation should be the center of a

herd health program or the hub aroundwhich the other four aspects of the program revolve however it is often the most overlooked or neglected pracshytice in operations today It not only includes the premises but also theanimals and equipment

Junk and trash lying around the farm and especially around the barn and grain storage areas promote rats and mice Junk trash dirt cobwebs inside the barn present physical hazshyards to the animals This material is also a potential health hazard for it may provide the reservoir that disease

SPRING 1967

needs in order to be propagated Improper drainage in the stall area

exercise lot and loafing shed promotethe accumulation of urine and feces and increase the possibility of animal foot problems and other health probshylems Manure is always a disposal probshylem but it must be cleaned daily fromthese areas and not allowd to accumushylate Bedding material must be changedfrequently if the animal urinates or dencates within the resting space Cowson which feces are allowed to accumushylate are health hazards to the herd and show a sign of poor management These cows should be washed and brushed to clean this material from their body

The housing and work areas must have adequate lighting so that the opshyerator and the Veterinarian may havemore ideal conditions in which to work More problem areas can be seen in a well lighted area than in a dark or dimly lit area Ventilation should be perfect so as to promote a healthy atshymosphere for the animals and lessen the possibility of money being lost due to respiratory diseases The principlesof admitting ample fresh air high andremoving the tainted air low will rid the area of moisture and foul ammonia fumes from urine

When designing the ventilation sysshytem it must be remembered that when admitting the fresh air the inlets mustbe planned so that there is one inlet of 60 sq in for every 3i2 - 1000 anishymal units The inlets can be placed at various places around the barn or stable area To eject the air a flue should beconsidered only if the distance from the highest point on the barn roof to the ground is 30 ft or more7 The flue size will be determined by the volume of the area to be evacuated It is imshyportant to place a door in the flue nearthe ceiling This door can be opened inthe summer months to aid in movingthe hot air which accumulates near the ceiling If the distance from the highshyest point on the barn roof to the groundis less than 30 ft a mechanical type system must be employed to evacuate the area The same principle applies in the mechanical systemmdashenter the fresh air high and exit the stale air low The number of mechanical units

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needed should be sufficient to provide a complete change of air six times every hour Sanitation also includes themilking parlor the equipment used and the technique employed in the acshytual milking The incidence of mastitis can increase when strict sanitary proshycedures are not adhered to The udder and especially the teats should be washed thoroughly with a mild soap and one of the iodine antiseptic prepshyarations This procedure not only stimushylates milk let down but reduces the possibility of spreading bacteria and contaminating the milk or other udshyders The inflation cups should be dipped into an iodine preparation inshysuring that the whole cup has been cleansed The cups then should be placed on the teat (after a strip plate test has been run) without allowingthem to touch the ground or other obshyjects such as bedding The wash waterand the water used to dip the teat cupsshould be changed at fifteen cow in-

This article is submitted due to interest shown by many and with the firm belief that Herd Health Management is the future of large anishymal practice The article was condensed from a paper prepared by Jack Leite for Dr Line-rode as part of the requirement for VeterinaryPreventive Medicine 740 Much of what is outshylined in this article comes from experience gained on field trips to Wooster Ohio area where herd health management programs are being conducted in five private dairy herds with the cooperation and participation of Drs Don Noah and Robert Mairs

1 A Syllabus on the Bovine Mammary Gland in Health amp Disease Department of Clinishycal Pathology School of Veterinary Medishycine University of California Davis Calishyfornia Schalm OW

2 Bishop J P amp Linerode PA Dairy Herd Health Management Record System Ohio State University 1967

3 Coppock CE amp Tyrell HE Feeding Recshyommendations for Lactating Cows Modern Veterinary Practice vol 48 1 January 1967

4 Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio

3 Drewry GH The Total Program Approachto Herd Health Management Modern Vetshyerinary Practice vol 48 2 February 1967

6 Guss Samuel B Milking Machines and Mastitis Modern Veterinary Practice vol 45 12 October 15 1964

7 Helwig John H Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinshyary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Personal Communication

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tervals throughout the milking proshycedure

The herd health management proshygram does not eliminate the emergencycalls The practitioner should be preshypared for them but the program shouldreduce the frequency of such calls andimproves the environment in which theVeterinarian must work Herd Health Management allows the farmer to proshyduce the greatest quantity of his proshyduct at the highest quality for the least cost A guideline in establishing a herd health program entitled Proshygramming Herd Health can be obshytained from Veterinary Practitioners Counseling Service VM Publishing Inc 144 N Nettleton Street Bonner Springs Kansas This aid to the pracshytitioner is available for Beef or Dairy operations at a nominal fee and may be a worth while investment for any one thinking of doing herd health work

8 Linerode Phillip A Department of Vetershyinary Preventative Medicine College of Vetshyerinary Medicine The Ohio State Universishyty Personal Communication

9 Modern Veterinary Practice vol 15 12 October 15 1964 p 8-62

10 Morrow DA Herd Health Records Corshynell University

11 Rice RE Trends in Large Animal Pracshytice Norden News vol 41 3 1966

12 US Department of Health Education and Welfare Screening Tests for Detection of Abnormal Milk 1965

13 Steere James H Modern Veterinary Pracshytice Reference and Data Service Large Anishymal 4 p A-8-8

14 Veterinary Clinic amp Dairy Dept Cooperashytive Extension Service Michigan State Unishyversity East Lansing Michigan

15 Woelffer EA Modern Veterinary Practice Reference and Data Service Large Animal 4 p A-8-19

YOURE THE DOCTOR (Continued)

Answer This dog had adrenal hyposhycortism or Addisons Disease The diagshynosis was confirmed by performing theThorn Test The preinjection samplecontained 1765 eoscu mm Two hoursafter the injection of ACTH the samshyple contained 1468 eoscu mm After four hours the sample contained 1815eoscu mm Necropsy confirmed thatthe dog had had adrenal hypocortisni

THE SPECULUM

DR ARTHUR I SWAN Dr Arthur I Swan graduated from

the Royal Veterinary College Universishyty of London England in 1953

Following graduation Dr Swan spent four years in mixed general pracshytice He then joined the staff of the Wellcome Foundation Research Laborashytories His work there was connected with anaerobic vaccine production and research His duties included working at a large equine stud that was conshycerned with antisera production Later Dr Swan was transferred to the Well-come Veterinary Research Station for a period of two years At the Research

Station he spent his time working on chemotheraputic testing in large and small animals

In 1963 Dr Swan was appointed to the Animal Pathology Division of theCanadian Federal Department of Agrishyculture Here his duties were in the Veterinary Microbiological Diagnostic and Research Departments

On May 8 1967 Dr Swan joined theDepartment of Veterinary Clinical Pathology of the Ohio State UniversityCollege of Veterinary Medicine He willbe working as a graduate teaching asshysociate in the microbiology laboratory

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1967 GRADUATING SENIORSBy DORTHEA LOWER amp JOSEPH WAGNER Vet Med IV

The seniors who are graduating this June are listed as follows along with degrees activishyties and expected location

Michael R Andrews 3958 Halsey PlaceColumbus OhioFt McPhersonAtlanta GeorgiaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

Donald W- Barton PO Box 365 Hamden OhioHamden-Vinton County

Ohio Mixed Practice AVMA

Richard E Bernard 2233 Arlington AveColumbus OhioDavis-Monthan AFB Tuscon ArizonaUSAF AVMA Alpha Psi

Paul BinnigRD 2 Minerva Ohio 44657Minerva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Alpha Psi

Asst Treas Treas

John Philip BishopMilford Center OhioUniversity of the SouthDept of AgronomyBahia Blanca ArgentinaPurdue Fellow-Internship

in foreign agriculturaldevelopment

AVMA OTS

Robert R Blease Upper Ferry RoadTrenton N JAVMA Alpha Psi

Jack Bonham 5165 Penny PikeSpringfield OhioPublic Health - City of

SpringfieldAVMA

James Booth640 Forest AveZanesville OhioAVMA OTS

Clinic Intern

Gary L Bowman333 S Market Street Loudonville OhioAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

Eugene M Breznock21129 Westwood Rd Fairview Park 26 OhioAVMA Phi Zeta

Melvin Butler Normantown W VaBuckeye Veterinary ClinicPO Box 476 Buckeye ArizonaMixed Practice AVMA

Richard S Dailey614 Jefferson Avenue Charles Town W VaBrentwood Veterinary

HospitalPortsmouth VirginiaSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Clinic Intern

Louis Diluzio 3955 West Sprague RoadNorth Royalton Ohio

44133 Small Animal Practice AVMA

Dale L DuerrRoute 1Bolivar Ohio 44612Quakertown Animal

Hospital40 S 11th St Quakertown Pa 18951Mixed Practice AVMA OTS

Speculum Large AnimalClinician Award

James L Ehler ER Squibb

Pharmaceuticals Animal Products Services New Brunswick New

JerseyAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day

SPRING 1967

Rodney FergusonRD 3East Liverpool OhioTexas A amp M University-Resident Large Animal

Clinics AVMA OTS Phi Zeta

Ronald J Frank 4430 Tindall St NWWashington DC 20016Hancock Air Base Syracuse NY 13225AVMA OTS

Dorothea L Freitas Far Hills NJ 07931360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York N Y 10021Internship - Animal

Medical Center AVMA Secy Phi Zeta

Speculum Co-editorClass Secy

Robert A Fritz Sylvania RoadToledo Ohio654 Stimmelmdash14 Columbus Ohio 43223USAF in MichiganAVMA OTS Treas

Speculum Assoc EditorCheron PhotographyEditor

Joseph Grossi JrMeadowbrook Manor Wintersville OhioMontgomery Animal

Hospital7700 Montgomery RoadCincinnati OhioAVMA OTS Class

Secy

Richard H Gurevitz 269-4 N Chesterfield Rd Columbus Ohio 43209Becher Animal HospitalColumbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Awards

Banquet ChairmanOTS Social ChairmanPledge Master GammaClass Pres Award

Dennis D HardyEden Idaho University of CaliforniaDavis California Internship Large Animal

Med amp Sur AVMA

James Hatfield D D 9

Bethel Ohio 45106AVMA

Thomas D HeadingSo Missouri Ave Wellston OhioPaine Air Field Everett WashingtonUSAF AVMA OTS

Daniel R Helvoigt1014 Fremont St Dover Ohio Rt 3 Shippensburg Pa90 Dairy PracticeAVMA Mark Morris

Fellow

William E Hendricks 100 E 6th Street West Lafayette OhioChicago 111 US ArmyAVMA OTS

Robert Henry R 3 Cardington Ohio 43315Bunker Hill Animal

Hospital6220 Jefferson Rd Ashtabula OhioMixed Practice AVMA Class Pres

Ron Jenne 1125 Eastgate RdToledo OBoston Mass after Nov

1567US ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

THE SPECULUM 20

Philip Johnson7580 Shawnee Run Rd Cincinnati Ohio656 Riverview Drive Columbus OhioLaboratory Animal

Medicine OSU AVMA

J Thomas LangRFD 1 Big Prairie OhioQuakertown Ani HospQuakertown PennsylvaniaDairy PracticeAVMA OTS

Donald R Kaeser 4871 Olentangy River RdColumbus Ohio121 Harvey AveDoylestown PaBuckingham Animal

HospitalBuckingham PennsylvaniaMixed mainly large

animal practiceAVMA OTS

Randy Kidd7629 Clark State Road Blacklick OhioMixed Practice AVMA OTS

President

Richard C Koritansky14032 GAR HighwayChardon Ohio 44024Abbotsford Veterinary

Clinic Ltd PO Box 96 Abbotsford British

Columbia CanadaLarge Animal PracticeAVMA Alpha Psi

corresponding secygtStudent Council

Dean Karl Kraus co Mr Charles OttoRoute 2 and 6 East Huron OhioTredyffrin Veterinary

Hospital1476 Lancaster Avenue Paoli Pennsylvania 19301Small Animal Practice AVMA class

rep resentati vetreasurer speakersbureau

Communications Chairman of Live Surgery Exhibit

Daniel E Lafontaine RR 1 Alvada Ohio Persidio of San Francisco San Francisco Calif US ArmyAVMA OTS

John C Leite 812 Clinton St Fremont 01877 Oakland Park Columbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Guy C Lockwood125 E Como Avenue Columbus Ohio Pentagon

Washington DC 20315Washington DCUS ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Small AnimalClinician Award

Lance O Lollini 430 Sinclair Street Yorkville OhioFt Bragg North CarolinaUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Phi

Phi Zeta

James C Lonz Route 3 Norwalk OhioYuma Test Station Yuma Arizona US ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta class treasStudent Council

E Clinton LowryForest Hill West Virginia360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York NY 10021Small Animal Internship shy

Animal Medical Center AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Co-chairman Pre-Vet Day Clinic InternClass Treas

Bruce Marhefka Kensington OhioUniversity of Minnesota shy

College of Vet MedSmall Animal Surgery shy

Instructor AVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day listening booth

SPRING 1967 21

jpoundSl^

MANOREWS 0 BAKTON K BERNARD P BINNIG J BISHOP P S L E S E J B O N H A M J BOOTH G BOWMAN G- BREZNOCK MBUTLER R DAILEY

L OILUZIO D DUERR J EHLER PFERGUSON PFRANK D FREITAS RFRITZ RGUREV1TZ 0 HARDY T HATP1ELD T HEADING

S 0 HELVOIGT W HENOMCKS RHENRY PJENNE OPRATT 8SAYLE J GROSS PJOHNSON 0 KAESER RKiOD RKORITANSKY

VtCE-PRSB PRESIDENT SKt shy TREAS

0 KRAUS 0 LAF0NTA1NE JT L A N G J LEITE

COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

G U3CKW000 L LOLLINI J LONZ C lOWfOT

BMARHEfKA CMCCONNELL MMCGANNON JMEHLING L MILEY RMYERS TOWEN DPAULO J PRATT J PURVI S M R A D C U F F E C R A F L O

WRANNELLS BREYNOLDS F BUTLEDQE GRSfKORA RSOLONER JWAGNER RWHJPPS WYAKLIY MYOUSHAK M ZARNETT J ZINES

Charles T McConnell 707 Main Street Toronto OhioLewis Animal HospitalCincinnati OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Phi Zeta

Exhibit Chairman Pre-Vet Day

Mel McGannon Box 143 Windsor OhioBoyds Animal HospitalGeneva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Clinic Intern

John A Mehling 118 N Wood Street Fremont OhioCollege of Veterinary

Medicine Cornell UniversityIthaca NY Dairy Practice shy

Ambulatory ClinicianAVMA

Larry Miley R i Eaton OhioFt Snelling after Nov

15 1967 Minneapolis MinnUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Pre Vet Day guide

Richard A Myersco Richard D Myers1271 Arbor Lane Marion OhioClover Park Veterinary

HospitalTacoma WashingtonSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Terry Owen4671 Venus Road Uniontown Rd 2 Ohio Letterman General HospSurgical amp Physiological

Research San Francisco Cal US ArmyAVMA OTS Pre-

Vet Day

F Daniel Paulo RD 1 Box 100 North Jackson OhioBeale AFB CaliforniaUSAF AVMA class

representative secretaryOTS Student Council

John Carl Pratt Rankins Creek Road South Point Ohio 45680South Point OhioMixed Mostly Large

Animal PracticeAVMA

Orben Pratt Jr Rt 1 St Paris Ohio 43072Ft McArthur Los Angeles CaliforniaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

intramural sports

James Purvis 525 KensingtonMiddletown Ohio 45042Lynch Animal Hospital3410 Tytus AveMiddletown OSmall Animal PracticeAVMA OTS

Intramural SportsStudent Council

Michael Radcliffe 2587 Mt Holyoke DriveColumbus Ohio 43221San Francisco Calif Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Charles P Raflo 6267 Elbrook Avenue Cincinnati Ohio 45237Aberdeen Proving Ground

MarylandUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Recording SecyChief Censor

William T Rannells RFD 1 New Plymouth Ohio

45654New Plymouth OhioMixed Practice AVMA

Bill B ReynoldsRt 3 Box 510Clarksburg W Va Reynolds Animal HospitalClarksburg W Va Mixed Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Student CouncilPresident Master of Ceremonies at AVMA Awards Banquet

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Florence Rutledge11815 Davis Court Lakewood Ohio 44107Gasow Veterinary Hospital1521 North Woodward

Ave Birmingham Michigan

48011 Small Animal Practice AVMA Chiron Editor

Sigma Gamma DeltaBorden Award Phi Zeta

William R SayleChagrin Falls Ohio 44042Amherst Animal HospitalAmherst Ohio 44001Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Intramurals PledgeMaster PresidentStudent Council

Speculum Chiron Gamma Award ClassPresident Merck Award

Richard Soldner 3322 Maize Rd Columbus OhioSpringfield Animal

Hospital36 Warder StreetSpringfield OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS PhiZeta Exhibit Chairman

Pre-Vet Day

George R SikoraHinckley OhioRichards amp Gebauer

AFBKansas City MoUSAF Base

Veterinarian AVMA Phi Zeta

Chiron SpeculumAlpha Psi Award

Joseph L Wagner6921 Salem Road Cincinnati Ohio 45030Laboratory Animal

FacilitySchool of Medicine shy

University of NorthCarolina

Chapel Hill NorthCarolina 27514

Laboratory AnimalMedicine - Graduate School

AVMA OTS PhiZeta AVMAFoundation ScholarshipMark Morris Research

Fellow Pre-Vet Day Speculum

Co-editor

Richard D Whipps1447 Thurell Rd Columbus OhioFort Lewis Spokane WashingtonUS ArmyAVMA Chiron

Business Mgr SpeakersBureau Chairman

William Lee Yakely1309 Cross Street Dover OhioWashington State

University - College ofVeterinary Medicine

Resident AVMA Co-Chairman

Publicity amp Picnic Committee ChairmanLive Surgery ExhibitTreasurer Vice-President OTSChairman Awards

AVMA Auxiliary AwardCommittee MarkMorris Research Fellow

Michael Youshak Huntsburg OhioVeterinary PathologyOhio State University1925 Coffey RoadColumbus OhioPost-Doctoral Graduate

ProgramAVMA President

OTS Phi Zeta PhizerAward Alpha PsiAlumni Award Speculum Chiron Pre-Doctoral FellowPublicity Co-ChairmanPre-Vet Day LiveSurgery ExhibitProgram ChairmanIntramurals

Martin Harold Zarnett 862 E 17th St Brooklyn New York 11230Aqueduct RacetrackSaratoga RacewayAiken amp Camden So Carolina Equine PracticeAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day Guide Asst LiveSurgery Exhibit

Jack B Zines MC 24 Salem OhioLarge Animal PracticeAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

SPRING 1967

One of our salesmen made his first calls in this

Seems he started calling on veterinarians 40 years ago He didnt think about selling He thought about animals diseases how to cure them or prevent them Hed recomshymend this that or the other of his products that he thought would be most helpful And the veterinarians liked him Still do In fact nowadays hes calling on the sons of some of his original customers And his point of view is pretty much like that of the rest of our salesmen Their average length of service is 16 years When you stay with a company that long you dont exactly sell it Youre part of it

P I T M A N - M O O R E Division of The Dow Chemical Company Midland Michigan 48640

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PRE-VET DAY - 1967By E DAN WOLF Vet Med Ill

Informative educational professionshyally presentedmdashthese were a few of theevaluations expressed by the 510 pershysons who attended Pre-Vet Day 1967

Following registration tour groups of 25-30 people were formed and each group was led by two student guides through Sisson Hall Goss Pathology Laboratory and the Veterinary ClinicThe program consisted of informative speeches and a tour of the College Theofficial College welcome was extended byDr Walter Venzke This was followed by brief descriptions of the various fields of veterinary medicine Dr Roshybert Hamlin education and research Dr D 0 Jones public health Dr BruceWenger small animal practice Dr James Donham and Dr Clyde Purdy large animal practice Dean Krill then explained the academic and personal qualifications for admission to the colshylege

The tour of the college consisted of explanations and displays illustratingthe function of each department Thesewere prepared and presented by the stushydents and included Anatomy mdash Ron Bockbrader and Dave

HenryBacteriology mdash Jim Guenther Robert

Temple and Stan EichelbergerParasitology mdash Scott Anderson and

Dave Farris Physiology and Pharmacology mdash Frank

Pipers and Steve KurtzerPreventive Medicine mdash Tom Cummins

and Dick Smolen Library mdash Sharon Schumann and Ken

Clever

Pathology mdash Tom Burke Mike Wanskyand Bruce McCullough

Small Animal Medicine mdash Bill Sayle andTed Panhuis

Small Animal Surgery mdash Dick Soldner Ralph Urmson and Doug Cbatney

Large Animal Medicine mdash Harold Fershyguson Bill Reynolds and Fred Adams

Large Animal Surgery mdash Dale Duerr Dick Dailey and Dave McDonald

Ambulatory mdash James Booth Ames Alshylen and Gary Bowman

Clinical Pathology mdash Charles McConshynell Jack Zines and Bill Sternecker

Radiology mdash James Syler and Victoria Voith Some of the departmental programs

presented were Evaluation of Various Physiological Parameters Studies on Gnotobiotic Animals The Physical Exshyamination Basic Surgical Equipment Preparation and Common Surgical Sitshyuations Foaling Rumenotomy and GasAnesthesia Equipment

The majority of those attending Pre-Vet Day seemed to be quite interestedand awed by the varied knowledge andthe professional qualifications of the veterinarian

Lunch was served at both Sisson Hall and the Clinic by the Pre-Vet Club Much work was required and several problems had to be overcome to presentto the public the true picture of veterinshyary medicine (Not the least of these problems was presenting the professionshyal aspects of veterinary medicine in a garage) Everyone who worked so hard to present Pre-Vet Day 1967 deshyserves hearty congratulations

SPRING 1967 27

REPORT ON SPEAKERS BUREAUBy RICHARD WHIPPS Vet Med IV This year the Speakers Bureau of

the AVMA Student Chapter has enshyjoyed its most successful year to date The Speakers Bureau was organizedthree years ago in an effort to inform the public of the broad scope of vetershyinary medicine Junior and senior vetshyerinary students have presented our profession to 4-H Clubs AgriculturalClubs and Survey Classes high schoolsand even to elementary school classesEach speaking engagement is usually handled by a team consisting of one senior and one junior with the senior student handling most of the speaking chores A stimulating question-and-anshyswer period follows almost every preshysentation

Student speakers participated in cashyreer-day programs in high schools throughout central Ohio including Coshylumbus Newark Lancaster and Censhyterburg Speakers presented mogtre specshyialized topics within the realm of vetshyerinary medicine to the Grove City Horsemasters 4-H Club the Wilmingshyton College Agricultural Club and Ag

AVMA NEWS By JUDY SAUERBREI Vet Med Ill This quarter as usual the student

chapter has been very active Pre-Vet Day (held Saturday April 15th) was a success with 510 people registering TheChiron the AVMA sponsored Colshylege of Veterinary Medicine yearbook has been mailed to the publishers and will be delivered to the student body byearly June The very active Speakers Bureau will continue to fulfill requestsfor guest speakers received throughoutthe summer New chairman of this comshymittee will be senior Tom Cummins Also this summer the Live Surgery exshyhibit which is presently at the Center of Science and Industry will be movedto Cincinnati for the Hamilton County Fair and then back to Columbus for The Ohio State Fair in August-Septemshyber

Members have enjoyed some very inshyteresting and informative programsthis quarter including a fine talk by ColScott Radcliff of the Ohio State Patrol

Survey classes and the Central Ohio Cocker Spaniel Club Topics for discusshysion included careers in veterinary medshyicine latest theories and developments in our profession various aspects ofveterinary preventive medicine and therole of the veterinarian in aerospace medicine The record for the longest distance traveled by student speakersthis year is held by the team who spoketo the Beta Beta Beta biological honorshyary of Marietta College

As chairman of the Speakers Bushyreau I would like to thank all the stushydents who served as speakers this yearEach person served his profession wellI am certain that the outreach of the Speakers Bureau will continue to grow as it presents the expanding field of veterinary medicine to the general pubshylic whose knowledge of our profession is in too many instances sadly lackingI would also like to express a specialthanks to Dr Donald Gisler of our facshyulty for giving his time and talents so that our presentations could be of the best possible quality

on Traffic Accidents and a large anishymal panel Members of this panel wereDr Albert Gabel of the OSU Veterinshyary Clinic Dr D G Miller SugarcreekDr Warren Amling London Dr Ed Kennedy Miamiville Dr Donald Moss-burger Bloomingburg Ohio

Other events for members of Student Chapter of AVMA included the Anshynual Awards Banquet on May 19th atthe Grandview Inn and the Spring Picshynic held on May 24th at Big Bear Farms

At the last meeting of the Student Chapter for Spring Quarter 1967 elecshytion of officers was held New officers for the academic year of 1967-68 will be President - Tom Hickey President-elect - Dick Hersman Vice President shyRalph Urmson Secretary - Sharon Schuman Treasurer - Bruce McCullocih These new officers have the great reshysponsibility of continuing to maintain the high standards of leadership exhibshyited by their predecessors

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Ohio State Fair Veterinary Medicine ExhibitBy DAVE ZIMMERMAN Vet Med Ill

For quite a few years the Ohio StateUniversity Student Chapter of the AVMA has presented an informative exhibit concerning veterinary medicineat the Ohio State Fair Last year this project took on a much wider scope Forthe first time live surgery was pershyformed in a modern portable surgical operating room Large pleriglass winshydows and closed circuit television enshyhanced the vantage point of the viewshying public

Again this summer the project will be presented at the Ohio State Fair Present plans call for two surgical proshycedures to be performed daily bylicensed and academy practicing veterishynarians representing their local acadeshymies with narration by students Talks

demonstrations and movies presentingthe complete and varied field of veterishynary medicine will round out the daily program

The purpose of the exhibit is to edushycate the public as to the wide rangeand high quality of service provided bythe modern veterinary clinic Althoughthis project is presented by the stushydents its aim is recognition of public and private practitioners through pubshylic exposure and education All demonshystrations will be presented in the proshyfessional and exacting way that modernveterinary medicine is practiced We feel certain that after a person has witshynessed the procedures presented he willbe much more aware of the ability posshysessed by his veterinarian

Columbus Only Motor - Inn Within

Walking Distance of the Campus

OHIO STATER INNDirectly across the street

from from the Ohio State Campus

For Reservations WriteOhio Stater Inn

Mr Melvin Circle Manager2060 North High Street at East Woodruff

Columbus Ohio 43201or telephone 294-5381 Columbus Ohio

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Canine Research Projects SupportedBy The Columbus Collie Club

The Columbus Collie Club donated $3000 to the Ohio State University Vetshyerinary Medicine to be used in Canine research projects The grant was dishyvided among the following projectswhich will be conducted between June 1967 and June 1968 by seniors in the college

Richard Kight Tom Cummins Bob Smatt Dick Flinn L Joe Starcher

FULL THICKNESS BONE GRAPHS IN THE CANINE Seniors Tom Cumshymins Dick Flinn Gene Hofacre Bob Smatt Advisor Dr Richard Rudy

Full thickness bone graphs will be employed in the femur and radius of mature 25-40 pound beagle type dogsThe periosteum of the femur will be inshycised and elevated and the shaft transhysected proximally and distally and thenremoved The shaft will then be splitlongitudinally with care being taken to preserve the endosteum One-half will be discarded the other replaced in its former position The periosteum will beclosed Fixation will consist of an intrashymedullary pin and orthopedic wire Onthe anterior limb the radius will be exshyposed the periosteum split and eleshyvated A 25 cm piece of radius will then be removed Prior to this procedshyure an incision will have been made at the distal portion of the 7th rib and a

5 cm piece of rib removed with the periosteum intact This piece will be cut in half transversely The two secshytions side by side will be secured in theradial defect A Kirsthner splint andorthopedic wire will be used for fixation

The dogs will then be observed for eight weeks and the fracture sites willbe evaluated as to the strength and stashybility of the union

During the course of the study the dogs will be handled as much like acshytual clinical cases as possible Strict aseptic procedures will be carried out and the dogs will be adequately medishycated as would a clinical case

If shown to be successful the typeof graph described above may be utilshyized clinically in restoration of the conshytinuity of bones too severely fractured to be reduced by simpler and convenshytional techniques

QUANTITATIVE DETERMINAshyTION OF CORTICOSTEROIDS PROshyDUCED BY THE ADRENAL CORshyTEX Senior L Joe Starcher Advisshyors Dr Philip W Murdick Dr Edshyward F Donovan

From the results of this project it ishoped that the normal canine corticosshyteroid levels can be determined and a routine testing procedure established Itis possible that such a test would be asuseful as the blood test urinalysis andfecal examination when a complete exshyamination of a dog is done

A METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE RESIN-SPONGE TRIIODOTHROshyNINE UPTAKE TECHNIQUE IN DEshyTECTING THYROID FUNCTION OF THE DOG Senior Victoria L Voith Advisor Dr Walter Lobe

This experiment entails keeping twelve dogs-four in euthyroid four in hypothyroid and four in hyperthyroid states Blood samples will be drawn bishyweekly for three weeks and used to pershyform the resin-sponge triiodothyronine uptake test When radioactive iodine labeled triiodothyronine (T-3) is added

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to a serum sample it first saturates the It is unlikely although possible that unoccupied thyroid-binding sites on the practitioner will perform this tech-Thyroid Binding Protein (TBP) The nique himself but the blood sample remaining T-3 is taken up by the resin- could easily be sent to a laboratory sponge added to the sample The total equipped to perform such a test amount of T-3 is determined Then afshyter incubation the resin-sponge is CLINICAL EVALUATION OF RE-rinsed free of serum and with it the T-3 NAL F U N C T I O N Senior Dick bound to TBP The radioactivity re- Knight Advisor Dr Robert Candon maining in the resin-sponge is then de- The present clinical laboratory parashytermined The percent of radioactive meters for evaluation of renal function T-3 taken up by the resin-sponge is in- are incomplete and poorly understoodversely proportional to the unsaturated The dog that has renal impairment butsites on the TBG and directly propor- does not show frank clinical evidence of tional to the amount of endogenous thy- impairment is the animal that needs roxine and triiodothyronine circulating clinical outlines This animal is the one

The invitro technique used in this ex- that can be helped the most with earlyperiment has been shown to be an ac- therapy andor prophylactic regimes curate and safe method of assessing The purpose of the study is to define thyroid function in human beings The and evaluate clinical parameters for theexperiment is designed to determine the evaluations of glomerular filtration ratevalidity of this test in detection of the renal plasma flow tubular maximum canine thyroid function Since this tech- and sodium-potassium excretion in nique employs the use of serum and nephretic dogs Then if possible the de-does not expose the dog to radioactive velopment of a simple clinical test to iodine it has the possibilities of becom- accomplish these procedures will be atshying of diagnostic use to the practitioner tempted

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A new concept in controlling the bovine respiratory complex Stress plus respiratory viral agents act as the triggering mechanism for secondary bacterial infection in calves under range conditions during shipment and in the feedlot New Rea-Plex vaccine helps break the triggering pathogenic chain of this respiratory complex in stressed calves by controlling the two most common viral diseasesmdashParainfluenza-3 and IBR One 2 cc dose of Rea-Plex stimulates protection in susceptible cattle against both PI-3 and IBRmdashand offers the advantage of being a tissue culture origin desiccated modified live virus vaccine Safe potent and effective confirmed in field trials by bovine practitioners with no adverse reactions reported in cattle even under severe stress conditions Available 5 and 25 dose vials ^ mNew

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One-dose

Fort Dodge Laboratories Fort Dodge Iowa

Another significant advancement in veterinary medicine from Fort Dodge

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NIH HEART GRANTBy FRANK PIPERS Vet Med Ill

Mutual interest on the part of a numshyber of research groups on campus conshyceived the idea of synthesizing capabilishyties and efforts with the end result beshying the formation and aquisition of an NIH grant entitled Biology of the Heart Participating in this endeavor are the Department of Veterinary Physhysiology College of Veterinary Medicineand the Departments of Physiology Medicine and Pathology College of Medicine

The two co-principal directors are Drs Smith and Warren There is a six man Steering Committee and approxishymately 20 to 25 professional efforts with an additional 15 to 20 man technical staff

The overall objective is to study allaspects of the normal and failing heartThe principle endeavors of this project will be

1) ultra microscopy of the failing heart

2) metabolism of the failing rat heart

3) bloodflow to visera and peripheral circulation

4) hemodynamics of the horse5) cardiac and renal function in dogs

with heart disease 6) ventricular and atrial activation

processes in cattle 7) uses of the computer in analyzing

electrocardiographic data of varshyious species

The nucleus of the microscopic workis at Starling Loving Hall where thereis an electron microscope The nucleus for macroscopic experimentation is at

SPRING 1967

Sisson Hall where the installation of a $200000 facility has just been comshypleted The facility consists of

1) office space and a conference room2) two modern biochemistry laborashy

tories 3) One general research laboratory 4) a catheterization laboratory with

an adjoining dark room5) large animal laboratory with tilt-

table 6) a laboratory animal lab7) large walk-in refrigerator8) small animal holding quarters9) large animal holding quarters

10) mobile laboratory (which contains2 labs equipment area large anishymal holding stocks and a dark room)

The facilities encompass 6000 squarefeet and are located in the southern half of the basement of Sisson Hall

Although this is an interdisciplinary effort there are obvious advantages toour College

1) It will bring equipment and techshynology to our school

2) It will aid in training and teachshying of graduate veterinarians

3) We can glean information from research to apply to a clinical medium

4) We will have prestige from the success of the faculty

5) We should have the ability to atshytract high quality people to comeand study at our College

We are very proud of the developshyment of this facility and we wish it well

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Such encouragement of risky do-it-yourself client competition is not a factor when you use EVA

rysipelas vaccine live culture avirulent) US Patent No 2980586 bull Canadian Patent No 608019

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OMEGA TAU SIGAAA NEWS By RONALD H BOCKBRADER

For all those non believers it can honshyestly be said that Spring has finally arshyrived in all its splendor despite severalfalse attempts to break loose from Winshyters tight grasp Needless to say the brothers of Omega Tau Sigma were eagerly awaiting Spring and met it with great enthusiasm

The first major item of business Spring quarter was the election of ofshyficers for the coming year Those elected were as follows

PresidentmdashDon Heagren Vice PresidentmdashAllen Bryant SecretarymdashRon Bockbrader TreasurermdashRich Hersman Assistant TreasurermdashTom Isaac

THE CHIRONBy DON SANDERS Vet Med Ill

This last year the Student Chapter ofthe AVMA voted to establish a yearshybook for the College of Veterinary Medshyicine The yearbook was named The Chiron The name refers to the centaur in Greek mythology who was renownedfor his skill in Medicine

The yearbook was launched by Florshyence Rutledge as editor Penalized byinexperience and a late start Miss Rutshyledge and the staff managed to meet the

SPRING 1967

Sergeant-at-ArmsmdashJerry WolfParliamentarianmdashRalph Urmson ChaplainmdashRalph Broshes Rush ChairmanmdashJim Cobb Social ChairmenmdashJoe Starcher

Dave MacDonald Ron Conklin

House ManagermdashCharles Steinman The Brothers of Omega Tau Sigma

are sincere in thanking the retiring ofshyficers after an outstanding year and a job well done

After a fine intramural basketball season which netted a championship troshyphy OTS has again offered its chalshylenge in intramural events with severaltop softball teams

Socially Spring Quarter was again climaxed by the fabulous Senior Send-off and we say that modestly Of coursethe annual cocktail party at the house for Seniors only preceded the evening affair The party was held at Winding Hollow Country Club and exemplified the theme Regal Elegance A delishycious buffet dinner and drinks followed by dancing to Rick Monroes Quintet truly made Senior Sendoff the best everBrothers Grossi and Gurevitz chairshymen of the event can be commended for their efforts

As Spring Quarter draws to a close and the Seniors depart in pursuit of their goals we sincerely wish the best to them and hope that the Fraternityhas been and will continue to be a reshywarding and enjoyable experience for them

deadline for the publishers This yearshybook a true accomplishment for the editor and her staff will come off the press during the first part of June A few extra copies will be printed in case any alumni wish to purchase copies ($700)

Work has already begun on next years Chiron with Don Sanders as theincoming editor Anyone interested in a copy of the Chiron or interested in adshyvertising in next years issue pleasewrite to Don Sanders at the OSU Vetshyerinary Clinic 2578 Kenney Road Coshylumbus Ohio

35

ALPHA PSI NEWS

ALPHA PSI By JAY FORSYTH Vet Med II

At the last meeting of the past quarshyter officers for the coming year were elected Jim Syler who did an outstandshying job as last years president was given the honor of serving another year Tom Burke was elected Vice Presshyident Tom Adams will serve as recordshying secretary Mike Snyder the new treasurer will be aided by Ron Montshygomery as assistant treasurer Dick

JIM ROSS (Continued from page 17)

University In the summer of 1966 he attended graduate school at Baylor Unishyversity College of Medicine Houston Texas

Dr Ross will receive his Master of Science degree in June of 1967 His thesis is entitled Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog Clinical and Physioshylogical Features

Beginning on July 1st 1967 Dr Rosswill be a member of the faculty at Bay-lor University College of Medicine with joint appointments in the departshyments of Physiology and Surgery

While an undergraduate student DrRoss became a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Omega Tau Sigma social frashyternities and of Phi Eta Sigma Gam-

Knight will serve as chief censor Jay Forsyth will act as corresponding secshyretary and Ed Stoughton will managethe house

Spring Quarter started off in greatstyle with a house party Alpha Psi thencombined with OTS and had a great time at Bridgeview Country Club

The speakers meeting for the past quarter included Dr R C Smith who spoke on the problems of setting upand running your own private practiceand Mr Joseph A Fodey Jr of CityNational Bank who spoke to the chapshyter about bankings relationship to theprofessional man

In the past two quarters the athleticteams of Alpha Psi have done well Boththe Freshmen and Sophomores broughthome trophies for their division titles Tuesday and Friday baseball squads arewarming up for title hopes after winshyning their league play despite the losses of Herb Betts with a broken foot and Brad Smith with a dislocated finshyger

Other spring events of Alpha Psi inshycluded the freshman welcome picnic onMay 15 1967 The sharp wit of Dr D0 Jones and the barbequed chicken were enjoyed by all The high point ofspring quarter was Senior Sendoff heldon May 26 1967 at the Hospitality Innat which the yearly awards were preshysented

ma Sigma Delta and Phi Zeta honorshyaries

Dr Ross will have a publication apshypearing in the Current VeterinaryTherapy 1967 (in press) entitled Dishyagnosis and Surgical Correction of Pashytent Ductus Arteriosus and Pulmonic Stenosis in the Dog On March 29th 1967 Dr Ross talked to the Northwesshytern OVMA on the subject Heart disease in small animal medicine He alshyso will talk on Diagnosis and SurgicalCorrection of the Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog at the National AVMA meeting in Dallas Texas in July of this year

Dr Ross is married He has a daughshyter Stephanie and his wife Marcia isexpecting a new arrival in June

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AVAAA FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Three members of the Junior Class

have been awarded AVMA grants for research in areas of veterinary medishycine Jon Bernstein is investigating speshycific renal and cardiovascular problemsHis sponsor Dr Robert Hamlin and the National Institute of Health are furnishing the necessary materials Usshying a radio-isotope technique Bernsteinwill be studying renal function of dogs in congestive heart failure He will deshytermine glomerular filtration rate renalblood flow and electrolyte excretion patterns before and after digitalization

Robert Stuhlman under the sponsorshyship of Dr Walter Loeb is using his horse His advisors are Dr Albert Gabel grant to develop a practical test which and Dr R B Heath Parameters monishyis diagnostic for the presence of hepa- tored will include arterial and venous

oxygen carbon dioxide and blood pH tocellular damage and its extent The respiratory rate and depth (pneumoshybasis of the test involves demonstrating graph) systolic and diastolic blood arginase activity with constant results pressures pulse rate and electrocardio-Roy Zinn will compare the effects of gram The ultimate goal of the project

succmylcholine alone and promazine is to evaluate the safety of intravenouswith succinylcholine on the cardiovascu- succinylcholine as an agent for casting lar and respiratory systems of the and restraint of the horse

QRowth bull gestationLactation

PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS DIVISION HILL PACKING CO TOPEKA KANSAS

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Youre The DoctorBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

A female spayed basset hound IV2 years old was presented for rabies imshymunization with 5 ml of phenolized rashybies vaccine Five days later she was reshyturned in a semi-comatous condition The owner stated that her appetite waspoor ever since her vaccination On thisparticular morning she refused to rise and could not walk when forced to rise Thorough questioning eliminated the possible ingestion of any toxin

On physical examination the dog wasnon-responsive to stimuli Her anal sphincter was relaxed her pupils weremiotic and her temperature was 95deg The dog had a respiration rate of 40 perminute her heart rate was 30 per minshyute Hydration appeared normal but the dogs extremities were extremely cold Her urinary bladder was emptyand no urine could be obtained by cathshyeterization Peripheral lymph nodes were not enlarged nor were there any enlargements on abdominal palpation

The laboratory work done on the dogshowed that she had a PCV of 50 WBC of 7800 with 36 segs 7 non-segs 50 lymphs and 7 eos Her BUN was 147

mg100 ml creatinine was 6 mg100 ml Na was 131 meqL Cl was 96 meq L and K was 93 meqL Renal blood flow was 68 mlmin

The dog was given extensive treatshyment while hospitalized including perishytoneal dialysis She showed marked imshyprovement and so was sent home with medication seven days after admission Two days after dismissal the dog died

What is your diagnosis Doctor Answer on page 44

UPJOHN AWARDS Dale Duer was presented the Upjohn

Award for the most outstanding seniorin large animal medicine Dale is marshyried and is a member of the A V M A and Omega Tau Sigma Upon graduashytion Dale plans to enter large animal practice in Pennsylvania

Receiving the Upjohn Award for the most outstanding senior in small anishymal medicine was Guy Lockwood Guy is married and a member of the A V M A Omega Tau Sigma and Phi ZetaHe will be entering the U S Army Vetshyerinary Corps upon graduation

HANDY CONTRIBUTION FORM

Please Print Correct Mailing Address

Zip Code

Please send The Speculum for period indicated at right

Signed

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Herd Health Management By JOHN C LEITE Vet Med IV PHILLIP A LINERODE DVM PhD

Herd Health Management is a totalapproach to large animal veterinarymedicine It combines into one programthe principles of preventive medicine and clinical medicine When properly apshyplied it could rejuvenate the Veterinarshyian-Farmer relationship

The herd health approach is based upon increasing a clients productivityinstead of running a salvage operationto keep him in business Ideally herd health management provides the means to secure optimum results from the entire herd The tools and techniquesused in herd health are principles ideasand experiments9 carefully and tactshyfully implemented

Since management is an integral part of the herd health approach it necessitates full cooperation of both the Veterinarian and the Farmer For this reason careful selection of clients for this approach is not only desirablebut absolutely essential Likewise the approach to secure cooperation is difshyferent for each farmer and is up to theingenuity of the Veterinarian The Farmer and the Veterinarian are not the only persons who should be inshyvolved in this approach to maximum production Often overlooked are lay people within the practice area who have special backgrounds information and talents that could help the proshygram The lay persons in this categoryare county extension agents vocationalagriculture teachers artificial insemshyination technicians local feed mill opshyerators and milking machine repair men The combined efforts of all these people can truly result in increased production and more profits for the farmer

It must be pointed out that the proshygram is long range and maximum beneshyfits cannot be gained in fewer than 5 or 6 generations in a herd Client confidence must be complete and full authority must be entrusted to the Veterinarian0 The type of operation is not important it may be dairy beef

SPRING 1967

swine sheep or equine the principles remain the same

The contractual arrangements beshytween client and practitioner vary withthe type of program and also the geoshygraphic area and its customs Some methods that have been used are13

1 charge on a straight call basis 2 charge by the hour 3 charge by the herd 4 charge for total herd work and

consultation to be done in a giventime (usually by the month or year)

5 charge a percentage of the inshycrease in net profit made by theuse of your service in herd health management

It would be a waste of time to inshyitiate a herd health program without the client being on some type of herd record keeping system For production Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) or Owner Sample (OS) recshyords could be kept with a preference for DHIA Information from producshytion records will aid greatly in detershymining individuals who are worthy of special attention When production records are combined with health recshyords they become invaluable in selectshying stock for the future Recently Morshyrow10 at Cornell University and Boyd Murray and Beck14 at Michigan State developed health records in the form of a folder with moveable colored tabs which indicate the breeding phase of each individual cow These systems however did not attempt to bring toshygether DHIA production records with health records and calf records Bishopand Linerode2 have developed a record keeping system which provides an allshyin-one record keeping system on an 8x10 inch manila folder A unique feashyture of this folder is color tabs to help the dairyman anticipate heat and to indicate the proper time to beginchallenge feeding This new system canbe used by the 1) Dairyman 2) Vetshy

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back inthe winners

circlewith

DANTAFUR(brand of nitrofurantoin)

J racheopharyngitis can lay a horse low fast keep him out of action result in important economic losses to the owner You can return the animal to peak performance quickly with Dantafurreg Administration of Dantafur promptly reverses the course of tracheopharyngitis It relieves coughing and nasal discharge returns the animal to normal breathing

In urinary tract infections Dantafur places imporshytant antibacterial concentrations in the urine within 30 minutes after administration It is effective and practically specific for the infected urinary tract resulting in dramatic cures and animals clinically and bacteriologically free from infection1

DOSAGE Dantafur mdash Tracheopharyngitis (Race Track Cough) mdash for each 225 lbs body weight adshyminister perorally an initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 5 days Urinary Tract Infections mdash for each 225 lbs body weight administer perorally an

initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 7 days and for at least 3 days after urine is sterile SUPPLIED Dantafurmdashoral suspension veterinary Each cc contains 15 mg nitrofurantoin in special suspending medium containing 10 alcohol bottles of 473 cc and 1250 cc As with any potent antibacterial agent administer with caution in cases of marked impairment of renal function safe dosage may be less than usually recommended 1 Witter R S Third Regional Conference on Nitrourans in Veterinary Medicine Atlanta Georgia January 14 1960

Available through your professional veterinary distributor

bdquo J ~ j L Nitrofurans-a unique class ol antimicrobialsorigpnated and developed by

JF^ EATON LABORATORIES laquoato^raquo Division of The Norwich Pharmacal Company ^ NORWICH NEW YORK

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erinarian 3) A I Technician and 4) the Milk Tester This system will proshyvide a means for the dairyman to keepup with his record keeping

Once adequate records are availshyable the veterinarian is ready to tackle the herd health problems In many cases changes must be gradualbecause of the inherent characteristics and attitudes of the client Divisions can be made in order to work on vashyrious aspects of the program and not all aspects need to be carried out at once Five aspects have been adopted in the Herd Health Management Proshygrams in the Wooster Ohio area

1 Mastitis Control 2 Nutrition 3 Fertility and Reproduction 4 Calf Management and Vaccination 5 SanitationThese are discussed below

1 Mastitis Control Mastitis may be defined as an inshy

flammation of the mammary gland reshysulting from the interplay of various etiologic factors their environment andthe host in question From the definishytion it may be assumed that no one causative agent is responsible for masshytitis

Degrees or clinical types of mastitiscan be recognized severe - acute mild shyacute or chronic and subclinical

The severe type can be easily recogshynized and must be treated immediatelyOne recommended treatment would be the administration of Posterior Pituishytary Extract strip out the quarters and administer Liquimycin and sulfa IV with a repeat treatment in 24 hours

The mild and subclinical forms may go unrecognized and therefore some type of screening test should be pershyformed prior to the attachment of the milking machine The most common and easiest test to run is the strip plateor strip cup but some subclinical and even the mild cases may still go unshynoticed The following more elaborate tests may be used to detect these formsof mastitis

California Mastitis Test (CMT)12

Lye Mastitis Test (LMT)4

Michigan Mastitis Test (MMT)4

Liquimycinreg Charles Pfizer amp Co New York NY

SPRING 1967

Whiteside Test9

A Whiteside Test or a Wisconsin Mastitis Test (WMT)12 may be run on bulk tanks to pick up the presence of mastitis in the herd

Further laboratory tests can be conshyducted on sterily collected milk samshyples

Culturemdashstreaking on BAP to obshytain isolation and tentative identishyfication

Catalase Test12mdashbased on the presshyence of catalase contained in sershyum white blood cells epithelial cells colostrum and bacteria

Coagulase Testmdashused to determine Staphoylococcus pathogenicity

Mastitis caused by infestious organshyism can be attributed almost 100 to Streptococcus agalactiia and Staphyshylococcus It has been said that the greatest economic loss is due to Streptococcus agalactiia This organism is easily diagnosed by the use of the Hotis Test and with proper treatment can be eliminated in the cow All cows should be tested once a montih for three months During this period the cows should be arranged in a milking seshyquence according to the results of the test The animals producing a positive test are treated by intramammary inshyfusion of 400000 units of penicillin in18cc of sterile distilled water into each quarter One treatment is usually sufshyficient to eradicate the organism The tests are then conducted every three months for the remainder of he yearand if the herd is free of the organismthey are then conducted at 6 month inshytervals1 To back a positive Hotis Testa Camp Test is run in the laboratory to prove or rule out the presence of a partial hemolizing agent

If Staphylococcus is suspected or proven the only treatment which may prove to be satisfactory is systemic treatment because of the location and pathogenic nature of the organism

Needless to say any cow with masshytitis should be placed last in the milkshying line and extra special sanitary preshycautions taken with her and the equipshyment A cow that fails to respond to treatment or has an irreversible fibshyrotic udder should be culled

Infective agents are not the only etiology for mastitis and the practionshy

41

er must maintain a keen eye to locate the other causes or possible causes and then have the condition corrected Othshyer etiologies may be improper milking injured teats and environmental 2 Nutrition

Good nutrition is an obvious and efshyfective tool for the progressive Veterishynarian to use in maintaining high proshyducers in a herd In general over half of the animal deaths are due to malnushytrition because inadequate nutrition will decrease the animals resistance to disshyease Nutrition is the cornerstone of success in herd health management and is often an overlooked factor in infertility It has been incriminated in fetal resorption and anestrus or failure to ovulate5

The basic approach would be to work out average requirements for the herd in digestible protein and Total Digestshyible Nutrients (TDN) A ration comshyposed of corn to supply TDN and soy bean oil meal to supply protein can fulfill the respective requirements and is economical Another rich source of protein is urea which can safely be used up to 3 of the ration It is availshyable in two forms 262 and 285 protein equivalents It is extremely cheap as compared to SBOM and the amount of protein derived from it A word of caution must be inserted here and that is to check with your local feed mill to see if they have the capashycity to mix urea into a ration Trace mineralized salt should be fed free choice

Forages and home grown grains should be tested periodically because it has been found that they may be below estimated textbook values3-5 depending on the type and condition of the growshying season

3 Fertility and Reproduction Fertility checks proper breeding and

a complete obstetrical program in the herd attempt to reach a goal of one calf per year from each cow As menshytioned before nutrition is a prime facshytor in fertility Once it is adequate a successful reproductive program can be launched

A cow should be palpated rectally 30 to 45 days after freshening to deshy

termine if uterine pathology is present or if the animal is ready to be bred on the next heat If pathology is present as indicated by an enlarged flaccid uterus that lacks tone the uterus should be infused with 4 million units of penicillin and 5 grams streptomycin combination mixed with 20cc of Utoshynex (2 mgm ethinyl estradiol and 20 mgm nitrofurathiazide) A cow that is bred on the heat after palpation would place the breeding date approximately 60 days after freshening The cow is then checked at 45-60 days after breedshying to determine if conception has ocshycurred and again prior to being dried off to detect any possible fetal resorpshytion or mummification5 The 45-60 day post breeding check is done to minimize lost time if conception did not occur on the initial breeding or if the fershytilized ova was lost and subsequent heat periods were missed

To aid the student and the clinician in palpating an approximate set of measurements of the whole bulge of the amniotic sac has been proposed

hens egg 40 days baseball 50 days softball 60 days volleyball 70 days basketball 80 days

Additional criteria can be used to apshyproximate the length of the pregnancy

35-60 days mdash slipping of the fetal membranes

85-90 days mdash fremitis of the midshydle uterine artery

110-120 days mdash presence of cotelyshydons

When following a regular program of rectal palpation abnormal conditions can be detected before they become irshyreversible Regular rectal palpation will clearly define the ovarian activity With this method of diagnosis expensive problem cows can be culled from the milk line or treated in an attempt to correct the difficulty In this program an accurate up to date set of records is essential

4 Calf Management and Vaccination This phase begins before the calf is

dropped The cow should be moved to a special maternity stall which is built to accommodate one cow very comfortshyably The calving stalls should be

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cleaned and disinfected between occushypants contain adequate clean bedding have good drainage be warm and have good ventilation The bedding should be changed periodically during the occupants tenure When the calf is dropped the umbilicus should be swabbed with a tincture of iodine and the fetal membranes removed before the cow can ingest them By performshying these simple tasks the new born has been given a much greater chance for survival When the time arrives for the calf to be separated from its mother it should be moved to an inshydividual calf stall When calves are pastthe stage of suckling one another theycan then be moved to clean well bedded and ventilated quarters which will acshycommodate several calves Nutrition is often overlooked in the calf crop in that they are usually fed the formushylated ration of the milking string A separate ration should be calculated forthe calves which is much higher in proshytein to accommodate fast growth The development of the calf during this period will have a direct influence onceshe enters the milk line Before reachshying the age of four months (120 days) calves are vaccinated for Brucellosis TB tested dehorned and have supershynumary teats removed If the owner so desires the calves may be vaccishynated for IBR and BVD at this time

The calf management program proshyvides a total health effort to improve the future milk string of the operashytion The program when followed dilishygently should provide for excellent calf survival with losses less than 1

5 Sanitation Sanitation should be the center of a

herd health program or the hub aroundwhich the other four aspects of the program revolve however it is often the most overlooked or neglected pracshytice in operations today It not only includes the premises but also theanimals and equipment

Junk and trash lying around the farm and especially around the barn and grain storage areas promote rats and mice Junk trash dirt cobwebs inside the barn present physical hazshyards to the animals This material is also a potential health hazard for it may provide the reservoir that disease

SPRING 1967

needs in order to be propagated Improper drainage in the stall area

exercise lot and loafing shed promotethe accumulation of urine and feces and increase the possibility of animal foot problems and other health probshylems Manure is always a disposal probshylem but it must be cleaned daily fromthese areas and not allowd to accumushylate Bedding material must be changedfrequently if the animal urinates or dencates within the resting space Cowson which feces are allowed to accumushylate are health hazards to the herd and show a sign of poor management These cows should be washed and brushed to clean this material from their body

The housing and work areas must have adequate lighting so that the opshyerator and the Veterinarian may havemore ideal conditions in which to work More problem areas can be seen in a well lighted area than in a dark or dimly lit area Ventilation should be perfect so as to promote a healthy atshymosphere for the animals and lessen the possibility of money being lost due to respiratory diseases The principlesof admitting ample fresh air high andremoving the tainted air low will rid the area of moisture and foul ammonia fumes from urine

When designing the ventilation sysshytem it must be remembered that when admitting the fresh air the inlets mustbe planned so that there is one inlet of 60 sq in for every 3i2 - 1000 anishymal units The inlets can be placed at various places around the barn or stable area To eject the air a flue should beconsidered only if the distance from the highest point on the barn roof to the ground is 30 ft or more7 The flue size will be determined by the volume of the area to be evacuated It is imshyportant to place a door in the flue nearthe ceiling This door can be opened inthe summer months to aid in movingthe hot air which accumulates near the ceiling If the distance from the highshyest point on the barn roof to the groundis less than 30 ft a mechanical type system must be employed to evacuate the area The same principle applies in the mechanical systemmdashenter the fresh air high and exit the stale air low The number of mechanical units

43

needed should be sufficient to provide a complete change of air six times every hour Sanitation also includes themilking parlor the equipment used and the technique employed in the acshytual milking The incidence of mastitis can increase when strict sanitary proshycedures are not adhered to The udder and especially the teats should be washed thoroughly with a mild soap and one of the iodine antiseptic prepshyarations This procedure not only stimushylates milk let down but reduces the possibility of spreading bacteria and contaminating the milk or other udshyders The inflation cups should be dipped into an iodine preparation inshysuring that the whole cup has been cleansed The cups then should be placed on the teat (after a strip plate test has been run) without allowingthem to touch the ground or other obshyjects such as bedding The wash waterand the water used to dip the teat cupsshould be changed at fifteen cow in-

This article is submitted due to interest shown by many and with the firm belief that Herd Health Management is the future of large anishymal practice The article was condensed from a paper prepared by Jack Leite for Dr Line-rode as part of the requirement for VeterinaryPreventive Medicine 740 Much of what is outshylined in this article comes from experience gained on field trips to Wooster Ohio area where herd health management programs are being conducted in five private dairy herds with the cooperation and participation of Drs Don Noah and Robert Mairs

1 A Syllabus on the Bovine Mammary Gland in Health amp Disease Department of Clinishycal Pathology School of Veterinary Medishycine University of California Davis Calishyfornia Schalm OW

2 Bishop J P amp Linerode PA Dairy Herd Health Management Record System Ohio State University 1967

3 Coppock CE amp Tyrell HE Feeding Recshyommendations for Lactating Cows Modern Veterinary Practice vol 48 1 January 1967

4 Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio

3 Drewry GH The Total Program Approachto Herd Health Management Modern Vetshyerinary Practice vol 48 2 February 1967

6 Guss Samuel B Milking Machines and Mastitis Modern Veterinary Practice vol 45 12 October 15 1964

7 Helwig John H Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinshyary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Personal Communication

44

tervals throughout the milking proshycedure

The herd health management proshygram does not eliminate the emergencycalls The practitioner should be preshypared for them but the program shouldreduce the frequency of such calls andimproves the environment in which theVeterinarian must work Herd Health Management allows the farmer to proshyduce the greatest quantity of his proshyduct at the highest quality for the least cost A guideline in establishing a herd health program entitled Proshygramming Herd Health can be obshytained from Veterinary Practitioners Counseling Service VM Publishing Inc 144 N Nettleton Street Bonner Springs Kansas This aid to the pracshytitioner is available for Beef or Dairy operations at a nominal fee and may be a worth while investment for any one thinking of doing herd health work

8 Linerode Phillip A Department of Vetershyinary Preventative Medicine College of Vetshyerinary Medicine The Ohio State Universishyty Personal Communication

9 Modern Veterinary Practice vol 15 12 October 15 1964 p 8-62

10 Morrow DA Herd Health Records Corshynell University

11 Rice RE Trends in Large Animal Pracshytice Norden News vol 41 3 1966

12 US Department of Health Education and Welfare Screening Tests for Detection of Abnormal Milk 1965

13 Steere James H Modern Veterinary Pracshytice Reference and Data Service Large Anishymal 4 p A-8-8

14 Veterinary Clinic amp Dairy Dept Cooperashytive Extension Service Michigan State Unishyversity East Lansing Michigan

15 Woelffer EA Modern Veterinary Practice Reference and Data Service Large Animal 4 p A-8-19

YOURE THE DOCTOR (Continued)

Answer This dog had adrenal hyposhycortism or Addisons Disease The diagshynosis was confirmed by performing theThorn Test The preinjection samplecontained 1765 eoscu mm Two hoursafter the injection of ACTH the samshyple contained 1468 eoscu mm After four hours the sample contained 1815eoscu mm Necropsy confirmed thatthe dog had had adrenal hypocortisni

THE SPECULUM

1967 GRADUATING SENIORSBy DORTHEA LOWER amp JOSEPH WAGNER Vet Med IV

The seniors who are graduating this June are listed as follows along with degrees activishyties and expected location

Michael R Andrews 3958 Halsey PlaceColumbus OhioFt McPhersonAtlanta GeorgiaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

Donald W- Barton PO Box 365 Hamden OhioHamden-Vinton County

Ohio Mixed Practice AVMA

Richard E Bernard 2233 Arlington AveColumbus OhioDavis-Monthan AFB Tuscon ArizonaUSAF AVMA Alpha Psi

Paul BinnigRD 2 Minerva Ohio 44657Minerva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Alpha Psi

Asst Treas Treas

John Philip BishopMilford Center OhioUniversity of the SouthDept of AgronomyBahia Blanca ArgentinaPurdue Fellow-Internship

in foreign agriculturaldevelopment

AVMA OTS

Robert R Blease Upper Ferry RoadTrenton N JAVMA Alpha Psi

Jack Bonham 5165 Penny PikeSpringfield OhioPublic Health - City of

SpringfieldAVMA

James Booth640 Forest AveZanesville OhioAVMA OTS

Clinic Intern

Gary L Bowman333 S Market Street Loudonville OhioAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

Eugene M Breznock21129 Westwood Rd Fairview Park 26 OhioAVMA Phi Zeta

Melvin Butler Normantown W VaBuckeye Veterinary ClinicPO Box 476 Buckeye ArizonaMixed Practice AVMA

Richard S Dailey614 Jefferson Avenue Charles Town W VaBrentwood Veterinary

HospitalPortsmouth VirginiaSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Clinic Intern

Louis Diluzio 3955 West Sprague RoadNorth Royalton Ohio

44133 Small Animal Practice AVMA

Dale L DuerrRoute 1Bolivar Ohio 44612Quakertown Animal

Hospital40 S 11th St Quakertown Pa 18951Mixed Practice AVMA OTS

Speculum Large AnimalClinician Award

James L Ehler ER Squibb

Pharmaceuticals Animal Products Services New Brunswick New

JerseyAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day

SPRING 1967

Rodney FergusonRD 3East Liverpool OhioTexas A amp M University-Resident Large Animal

Clinics AVMA OTS Phi Zeta

Ronald J Frank 4430 Tindall St NWWashington DC 20016Hancock Air Base Syracuse NY 13225AVMA OTS

Dorothea L Freitas Far Hills NJ 07931360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York N Y 10021Internship - Animal

Medical Center AVMA Secy Phi Zeta

Speculum Co-editorClass Secy

Robert A Fritz Sylvania RoadToledo Ohio654 Stimmelmdash14 Columbus Ohio 43223USAF in MichiganAVMA OTS Treas

Speculum Assoc EditorCheron PhotographyEditor

Joseph Grossi JrMeadowbrook Manor Wintersville OhioMontgomery Animal

Hospital7700 Montgomery RoadCincinnati OhioAVMA OTS Class

Secy

Richard H Gurevitz 269-4 N Chesterfield Rd Columbus Ohio 43209Becher Animal HospitalColumbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Awards

Banquet ChairmanOTS Social ChairmanPledge Master GammaClass Pres Award

Dennis D HardyEden Idaho University of CaliforniaDavis California Internship Large Animal

Med amp Sur AVMA

James Hatfield D D 9

Bethel Ohio 45106AVMA

Thomas D HeadingSo Missouri Ave Wellston OhioPaine Air Field Everett WashingtonUSAF AVMA OTS

Daniel R Helvoigt1014 Fremont St Dover Ohio Rt 3 Shippensburg Pa90 Dairy PracticeAVMA Mark Morris

Fellow

William E Hendricks 100 E 6th Street West Lafayette OhioChicago 111 US ArmyAVMA OTS

Robert Henry R 3 Cardington Ohio 43315Bunker Hill Animal

Hospital6220 Jefferson Rd Ashtabula OhioMixed Practice AVMA Class Pres

Ron Jenne 1125 Eastgate RdToledo OBoston Mass after Nov

1567US ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

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Philip Johnson7580 Shawnee Run Rd Cincinnati Ohio656 Riverview Drive Columbus OhioLaboratory Animal

Medicine OSU AVMA

J Thomas LangRFD 1 Big Prairie OhioQuakertown Ani HospQuakertown PennsylvaniaDairy PracticeAVMA OTS

Donald R Kaeser 4871 Olentangy River RdColumbus Ohio121 Harvey AveDoylestown PaBuckingham Animal

HospitalBuckingham PennsylvaniaMixed mainly large

animal practiceAVMA OTS

Randy Kidd7629 Clark State Road Blacklick OhioMixed Practice AVMA OTS

President

Richard C Koritansky14032 GAR HighwayChardon Ohio 44024Abbotsford Veterinary

Clinic Ltd PO Box 96 Abbotsford British

Columbia CanadaLarge Animal PracticeAVMA Alpha Psi

corresponding secygtStudent Council

Dean Karl Kraus co Mr Charles OttoRoute 2 and 6 East Huron OhioTredyffrin Veterinary

Hospital1476 Lancaster Avenue Paoli Pennsylvania 19301Small Animal Practice AVMA class

rep resentati vetreasurer speakersbureau

Communications Chairman of Live Surgery Exhibit

Daniel E Lafontaine RR 1 Alvada Ohio Persidio of San Francisco San Francisco Calif US ArmyAVMA OTS

John C Leite 812 Clinton St Fremont 01877 Oakland Park Columbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Guy C Lockwood125 E Como Avenue Columbus Ohio Pentagon

Washington DC 20315Washington DCUS ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Small AnimalClinician Award

Lance O Lollini 430 Sinclair Street Yorkville OhioFt Bragg North CarolinaUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Phi

Phi Zeta

James C Lonz Route 3 Norwalk OhioYuma Test Station Yuma Arizona US ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta class treasStudent Council

E Clinton LowryForest Hill West Virginia360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York NY 10021Small Animal Internship shy

Animal Medical Center AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Co-chairman Pre-Vet Day Clinic InternClass Treas

Bruce Marhefka Kensington OhioUniversity of Minnesota shy

College of Vet MedSmall Animal Surgery shy

Instructor AVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day listening booth

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MANOREWS 0 BAKTON K BERNARD P BINNIG J BISHOP P S L E S E J B O N H A M J BOOTH G BOWMAN G- BREZNOCK MBUTLER R DAILEY

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S 0 HELVOIGT W HENOMCKS RHENRY PJENNE OPRATT 8SAYLE J GROSS PJOHNSON 0 KAESER RKiOD RKORITANSKY

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COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

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BMARHEfKA CMCCONNELL MMCGANNON JMEHLING L MILEY RMYERS TOWEN DPAULO J PRATT J PURVI S M R A D C U F F E C R A F L O

WRANNELLS BREYNOLDS F BUTLEDQE GRSfKORA RSOLONER JWAGNER RWHJPPS WYAKLIY MYOUSHAK M ZARNETT J ZINES

Charles T McConnell 707 Main Street Toronto OhioLewis Animal HospitalCincinnati OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Phi Zeta

Exhibit Chairman Pre-Vet Day

Mel McGannon Box 143 Windsor OhioBoyds Animal HospitalGeneva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Clinic Intern

John A Mehling 118 N Wood Street Fremont OhioCollege of Veterinary

Medicine Cornell UniversityIthaca NY Dairy Practice shy

Ambulatory ClinicianAVMA

Larry Miley R i Eaton OhioFt Snelling after Nov

15 1967 Minneapolis MinnUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Pre Vet Day guide

Richard A Myersco Richard D Myers1271 Arbor Lane Marion OhioClover Park Veterinary

HospitalTacoma WashingtonSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Terry Owen4671 Venus Road Uniontown Rd 2 Ohio Letterman General HospSurgical amp Physiological

Research San Francisco Cal US ArmyAVMA OTS Pre-

Vet Day

F Daniel Paulo RD 1 Box 100 North Jackson OhioBeale AFB CaliforniaUSAF AVMA class

representative secretaryOTS Student Council

John Carl Pratt Rankins Creek Road South Point Ohio 45680South Point OhioMixed Mostly Large

Animal PracticeAVMA

Orben Pratt Jr Rt 1 St Paris Ohio 43072Ft McArthur Los Angeles CaliforniaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

intramural sports

James Purvis 525 KensingtonMiddletown Ohio 45042Lynch Animal Hospital3410 Tytus AveMiddletown OSmall Animal PracticeAVMA OTS

Intramural SportsStudent Council

Michael Radcliffe 2587 Mt Holyoke DriveColumbus Ohio 43221San Francisco Calif Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Charles P Raflo 6267 Elbrook Avenue Cincinnati Ohio 45237Aberdeen Proving Ground

MarylandUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Recording SecyChief Censor

William T Rannells RFD 1 New Plymouth Ohio

45654New Plymouth OhioMixed Practice AVMA

Bill B ReynoldsRt 3 Box 510Clarksburg W Va Reynolds Animal HospitalClarksburg W Va Mixed Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Student CouncilPresident Master of Ceremonies at AVMA Awards Banquet

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Florence Rutledge11815 Davis Court Lakewood Ohio 44107Gasow Veterinary Hospital1521 North Woodward

Ave Birmingham Michigan

48011 Small Animal Practice AVMA Chiron Editor

Sigma Gamma DeltaBorden Award Phi Zeta

William R SayleChagrin Falls Ohio 44042Amherst Animal HospitalAmherst Ohio 44001Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Intramurals PledgeMaster PresidentStudent Council

Speculum Chiron Gamma Award ClassPresident Merck Award

Richard Soldner 3322 Maize Rd Columbus OhioSpringfield Animal

Hospital36 Warder StreetSpringfield OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS PhiZeta Exhibit Chairman

Pre-Vet Day

George R SikoraHinckley OhioRichards amp Gebauer

AFBKansas City MoUSAF Base

Veterinarian AVMA Phi Zeta

Chiron SpeculumAlpha Psi Award

Joseph L Wagner6921 Salem Road Cincinnati Ohio 45030Laboratory Animal

FacilitySchool of Medicine shy

University of NorthCarolina

Chapel Hill NorthCarolina 27514

Laboratory AnimalMedicine - Graduate School

AVMA OTS PhiZeta AVMAFoundation ScholarshipMark Morris Research

Fellow Pre-Vet Day Speculum

Co-editor

Richard D Whipps1447 Thurell Rd Columbus OhioFort Lewis Spokane WashingtonUS ArmyAVMA Chiron

Business Mgr SpeakersBureau Chairman

William Lee Yakely1309 Cross Street Dover OhioWashington State

University - College ofVeterinary Medicine

Resident AVMA Co-Chairman

Publicity amp Picnic Committee ChairmanLive Surgery ExhibitTreasurer Vice-President OTSChairman Awards

AVMA Auxiliary AwardCommittee MarkMorris Research Fellow

Michael Youshak Huntsburg OhioVeterinary PathologyOhio State University1925 Coffey RoadColumbus OhioPost-Doctoral Graduate

ProgramAVMA President

OTS Phi Zeta PhizerAward Alpha PsiAlumni Award Speculum Chiron Pre-Doctoral FellowPublicity Co-ChairmanPre-Vet Day LiveSurgery ExhibitProgram ChairmanIntramurals

Martin Harold Zarnett 862 E 17th St Brooklyn New York 11230Aqueduct RacetrackSaratoga RacewayAiken amp Camden So Carolina Equine PracticeAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day Guide Asst LiveSurgery Exhibit

Jack B Zines MC 24 Salem OhioLarge Animal PracticeAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

SPRING 1967

One of our salesmen made his first calls in this

Seems he started calling on veterinarians 40 years ago He didnt think about selling He thought about animals diseases how to cure them or prevent them Hed recomshymend this that or the other of his products that he thought would be most helpful And the veterinarians liked him Still do In fact nowadays hes calling on the sons of some of his original customers And his point of view is pretty much like that of the rest of our salesmen Their average length of service is 16 years When you stay with a company that long you dont exactly sell it Youre part of it

P I T M A N - M O O R E Division of The Dow Chemical Company Midland Michigan 48640

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PRE-VET DAY - 1967By E DAN WOLF Vet Med Ill

Informative educational professionshyally presentedmdashthese were a few of theevaluations expressed by the 510 pershysons who attended Pre-Vet Day 1967

Following registration tour groups of 25-30 people were formed and each group was led by two student guides through Sisson Hall Goss Pathology Laboratory and the Veterinary ClinicThe program consisted of informative speeches and a tour of the College Theofficial College welcome was extended byDr Walter Venzke This was followed by brief descriptions of the various fields of veterinary medicine Dr Roshybert Hamlin education and research Dr D 0 Jones public health Dr BruceWenger small animal practice Dr James Donham and Dr Clyde Purdy large animal practice Dean Krill then explained the academic and personal qualifications for admission to the colshylege

The tour of the college consisted of explanations and displays illustratingthe function of each department Thesewere prepared and presented by the stushydents and included Anatomy mdash Ron Bockbrader and Dave

HenryBacteriology mdash Jim Guenther Robert

Temple and Stan EichelbergerParasitology mdash Scott Anderson and

Dave Farris Physiology and Pharmacology mdash Frank

Pipers and Steve KurtzerPreventive Medicine mdash Tom Cummins

and Dick Smolen Library mdash Sharon Schumann and Ken

Clever

Pathology mdash Tom Burke Mike Wanskyand Bruce McCullough

Small Animal Medicine mdash Bill Sayle andTed Panhuis

Small Animal Surgery mdash Dick Soldner Ralph Urmson and Doug Cbatney

Large Animal Medicine mdash Harold Fershyguson Bill Reynolds and Fred Adams

Large Animal Surgery mdash Dale Duerr Dick Dailey and Dave McDonald

Ambulatory mdash James Booth Ames Alshylen and Gary Bowman

Clinical Pathology mdash Charles McConshynell Jack Zines and Bill Sternecker

Radiology mdash James Syler and Victoria Voith Some of the departmental programs

presented were Evaluation of Various Physiological Parameters Studies on Gnotobiotic Animals The Physical Exshyamination Basic Surgical Equipment Preparation and Common Surgical Sitshyuations Foaling Rumenotomy and GasAnesthesia Equipment

The majority of those attending Pre-Vet Day seemed to be quite interestedand awed by the varied knowledge andthe professional qualifications of the veterinarian

Lunch was served at both Sisson Hall and the Clinic by the Pre-Vet Club Much work was required and several problems had to be overcome to presentto the public the true picture of veterinshyary medicine (Not the least of these problems was presenting the professionshyal aspects of veterinary medicine in a garage) Everyone who worked so hard to present Pre-Vet Day 1967 deshyserves hearty congratulations

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REPORT ON SPEAKERS BUREAUBy RICHARD WHIPPS Vet Med IV This year the Speakers Bureau of

the AVMA Student Chapter has enshyjoyed its most successful year to date The Speakers Bureau was organizedthree years ago in an effort to inform the public of the broad scope of vetershyinary medicine Junior and senior vetshyerinary students have presented our profession to 4-H Clubs AgriculturalClubs and Survey Classes high schoolsand even to elementary school classesEach speaking engagement is usually handled by a team consisting of one senior and one junior with the senior student handling most of the speaking chores A stimulating question-and-anshyswer period follows almost every preshysentation

Student speakers participated in cashyreer-day programs in high schools throughout central Ohio including Coshylumbus Newark Lancaster and Censhyterburg Speakers presented mogtre specshyialized topics within the realm of vetshyerinary medicine to the Grove City Horsemasters 4-H Club the Wilmingshyton College Agricultural Club and Ag

AVMA NEWS By JUDY SAUERBREI Vet Med Ill This quarter as usual the student

chapter has been very active Pre-Vet Day (held Saturday April 15th) was a success with 510 people registering TheChiron the AVMA sponsored Colshylege of Veterinary Medicine yearbook has been mailed to the publishers and will be delivered to the student body byearly June The very active Speakers Bureau will continue to fulfill requestsfor guest speakers received throughoutthe summer New chairman of this comshymittee will be senior Tom Cummins Also this summer the Live Surgery exshyhibit which is presently at the Center of Science and Industry will be movedto Cincinnati for the Hamilton County Fair and then back to Columbus for The Ohio State Fair in August-Septemshyber

Members have enjoyed some very inshyteresting and informative programsthis quarter including a fine talk by ColScott Radcliff of the Ohio State Patrol

Survey classes and the Central Ohio Cocker Spaniel Club Topics for discusshysion included careers in veterinary medshyicine latest theories and developments in our profession various aspects ofveterinary preventive medicine and therole of the veterinarian in aerospace medicine The record for the longest distance traveled by student speakersthis year is held by the team who spoketo the Beta Beta Beta biological honorshyary of Marietta College

As chairman of the Speakers Bushyreau I would like to thank all the stushydents who served as speakers this yearEach person served his profession wellI am certain that the outreach of the Speakers Bureau will continue to grow as it presents the expanding field of veterinary medicine to the general pubshylic whose knowledge of our profession is in too many instances sadly lackingI would also like to express a specialthanks to Dr Donald Gisler of our facshyulty for giving his time and talents so that our presentations could be of the best possible quality

on Traffic Accidents and a large anishymal panel Members of this panel wereDr Albert Gabel of the OSU Veterinshyary Clinic Dr D G Miller SugarcreekDr Warren Amling London Dr Ed Kennedy Miamiville Dr Donald Moss-burger Bloomingburg Ohio

Other events for members of Student Chapter of AVMA included the Anshynual Awards Banquet on May 19th atthe Grandview Inn and the Spring Picshynic held on May 24th at Big Bear Farms

At the last meeting of the Student Chapter for Spring Quarter 1967 elecshytion of officers was held New officers for the academic year of 1967-68 will be President - Tom Hickey President-elect - Dick Hersman Vice President shyRalph Urmson Secretary - Sharon Schuman Treasurer - Bruce McCullocih These new officers have the great reshysponsibility of continuing to maintain the high standards of leadership exhibshyited by their predecessors

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Ohio State Fair Veterinary Medicine ExhibitBy DAVE ZIMMERMAN Vet Med Ill

For quite a few years the Ohio StateUniversity Student Chapter of the AVMA has presented an informative exhibit concerning veterinary medicineat the Ohio State Fair Last year this project took on a much wider scope Forthe first time live surgery was pershyformed in a modern portable surgical operating room Large pleriglass winshydows and closed circuit television enshyhanced the vantage point of the viewshying public

Again this summer the project will be presented at the Ohio State Fair Present plans call for two surgical proshycedures to be performed daily bylicensed and academy practicing veterishynarians representing their local acadeshymies with narration by students Talks

demonstrations and movies presentingthe complete and varied field of veterishynary medicine will round out the daily program

The purpose of the exhibit is to edushycate the public as to the wide rangeand high quality of service provided bythe modern veterinary clinic Althoughthis project is presented by the stushydents its aim is recognition of public and private practitioners through pubshylic exposure and education All demonshystrations will be presented in the proshyfessional and exacting way that modernveterinary medicine is practiced We feel certain that after a person has witshynessed the procedures presented he willbe much more aware of the ability posshysessed by his veterinarian

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Canine Research Projects SupportedBy The Columbus Collie Club

The Columbus Collie Club donated $3000 to the Ohio State University Vetshyerinary Medicine to be used in Canine research projects The grant was dishyvided among the following projectswhich will be conducted between June 1967 and June 1968 by seniors in the college

Richard Kight Tom Cummins Bob Smatt Dick Flinn L Joe Starcher

FULL THICKNESS BONE GRAPHS IN THE CANINE Seniors Tom Cumshymins Dick Flinn Gene Hofacre Bob Smatt Advisor Dr Richard Rudy

Full thickness bone graphs will be employed in the femur and radius of mature 25-40 pound beagle type dogsThe periosteum of the femur will be inshycised and elevated and the shaft transhysected proximally and distally and thenremoved The shaft will then be splitlongitudinally with care being taken to preserve the endosteum One-half will be discarded the other replaced in its former position The periosteum will beclosed Fixation will consist of an intrashymedullary pin and orthopedic wire Onthe anterior limb the radius will be exshyposed the periosteum split and eleshyvated A 25 cm piece of radius will then be removed Prior to this procedshyure an incision will have been made at the distal portion of the 7th rib and a

5 cm piece of rib removed with the periosteum intact This piece will be cut in half transversely The two secshytions side by side will be secured in theradial defect A Kirsthner splint andorthopedic wire will be used for fixation

The dogs will then be observed for eight weeks and the fracture sites willbe evaluated as to the strength and stashybility of the union

During the course of the study the dogs will be handled as much like acshytual clinical cases as possible Strict aseptic procedures will be carried out and the dogs will be adequately medishycated as would a clinical case

If shown to be successful the typeof graph described above may be utilshyized clinically in restoration of the conshytinuity of bones too severely fractured to be reduced by simpler and convenshytional techniques

QUANTITATIVE DETERMINAshyTION OF CORTICOSTEROIDS PROshyDUCED BY THE ADRENAL CORshyTEX Senior L Joe Starcher Advisshyors Dr Philip W Murdick Dr Edshyward F Donovan

From the results of this project it ishoped that the normal canine corticosshyteroid levels can be determined and a routine testing procedure established Itis possible that such a test would be asuseful as the blood test urinalysis andfecal examination when a complete exshyamination of a dog is done

A METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE RESIN-SPONGE TRIIODOTHROshyNINE UPTAKE TECHNIQUE IN DEshyTECTING THYROID FUNCTION OF THE DOG Senior Victoria L Voith Advisor Dr Walter Lobe

This experiment entails keeping twelve dogs-four in euthyroid four in hypothyroid and four in hyperthyroid states Blood samples will be drawn bishyweekly for three weeks and used to pershyform the resin-sponge triiodothyronine uptake test When radioactive iodine labeled triiodothyronine (T-3) is added

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to a serum sample it first saturates the It is unlikely although possible that unoccupied thyroid-binding sites on the practitioner will perform this tech-Thyroid Binding Protein (TBP) The nique himself but the blood sample remaining T-3 is taken up by the resin- could easily be sent to a laboratory sponge added to the sample The total equipped to perform such a test amount of T-3 is determined Then afshyter incubation the resin-sponge is CLINICAL EVALUATION OF RE-rinsed free of serum and with it the T-3 NAL F U N C T I O N Senior Dick bound to TBP The radioactivity re- Knight Advisor Dr Robert Candon maining in the resin-sponge is then de- The present clinical laboratory parashytermined The percent of radioactive meters for evaluation of renal function T-3 taken up by the resin-sponge is in- are incomplete and poorly understoodversely proportional to the unsaturated The dog that has renal impairment butsites on the TBG and directly propor- does not show frank clinical evidence of tional to the amount of endogenous thy- impairment is the animal that needs roxine and triiodothyronine circulating clinical outlines This animal is the one

The invitro technique used in this ex- that can be helped the most with earlyperiment has been shown to be an ac- therapy andor prophylactic regimes curate and safe method of assessing The purpose of the study is to define thyroid function in human beings The and evaluate clinical parameters for theexperiment is designed to determine the evaluations of glomerular filtration ratevalidity of this test in detection of the renal plasma flow tubular maximum canine thyroid function Since this tech- and sodium-potassium excretion in nique employs the use of serum and nephretic dogs Then if possible the de-does not expose the dog to radioactive velopment of a simple clinical test to iodine it has the possibilities of becom- accomplish these procedures will be atshying of diagnostic use to the practitioner tempted

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A new concept in controlling the bovine respiratory complex Stress plus respiratory viral agents act as the triggering mechanism for secondary bacterial infection in calves under range conditions during shipment and in the feedlot New Rea-Plex vaccine helps break the triggering pathogenic chain of this respiratory complex in stressed calves by controlling the two most common viral diseasesmdashParainfluenza-3 and IBR One 2 cc dose of Rea-Plex stimulates protection in susceptible cattle against both PI-3 and IBRmdashand offers the advantage of being a tissue culture origin desiccated modified live virus vaccine Safe potent and effective confirmed in field trials by bovine practitioners with no adverse reactions reported in cattle even under severe stress conditions Available 5 and 25 dose vials ^ mNew

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Fort Dodge Laboratories Fort Dodge Iowa

Another significant advancement in veterinary medicine from Fort Dodge

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NIH HEART GRANTBy FRANK PIPERS Vet Med Ill

Mutual interest on the part of a numshyber of research groups on campus conshyceived the idea of synthesizing capabilishyties and efforts with the end result beshying the formation and aquisition of an NIH grant entitled Biology of the Heart Participating in this endeavor are the Department of Veterinary Physhysiology College of Veterinary Medicineand the Departments of Physiology Medicine and Pathology College of Medicine

The two co-principal directors are Drs Smith and Warren There is a six man Steering Committee and approxishymately 20 to 25 professional efforts with an additional 15 to 20 man technical staff

The overall objective is to study allaspects of the normal and failing heartThe principle endeavors of this project will be

1) ultra microscopy of the failing heart

2) metabolism of the failing rat heart

3) bloodflow to visera and peripheral circulation

4) hemodynamics of the horse5) cardiac and renal function in dogs

with heart disease 6) ventricular and atrial activation

processes in cattle 7) uses of the computer in analyzing

electrocardiographic data of varshyious species

The nucleus of the microscopic workis at Starling Loving Hall where thereis an electron microscope The nucleus for macroscopic experimentation is at

SPRING 1967

Sisson Hall where the installation of a $200000 facility has just been comshypleted The facility consists of

1) office space and a conference room2) two modern biochemistry laborashy

tories 3) One general research laboratory 4) a catheterization laboratory with

an adjoining dark room5) large animal laboratory with tilt-

table 6) a laboratory animal lab7) large walk-in refrigerator8) small animal holding quarters9) large animal holding quarters

10) mobile laboratory (which contains2 labs equipment area large anishymal holding stocks and a dark room)

The facilities encompass 6000 squarefeet and are located in the southern half of the basement of Sisson Hall

Although this is an interdisciplinary effort there are obvious advantages toour College

1) It will bring equipment and techshynology to our school

2) It will aid in training and teachshying of graduate veterinarians

3) We can glean information from research to apply to a clinical medium

4) We will have prestige from the success of the faculty

5) We should have the ability to atshytract high quality people to comeand study at our College

We are very proud of the developshyment of this facility and we wish it well

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Such encouragement of risky do-it-yourself client competition is not a factor when you use EVA

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OMEGA TAU SIGAAA NEWS By RONALD H BOCKBRADER

For all those non believers it can honshyestly be said that Spring has finally arshyrived in all its splendor despite severalfalse attempts to break loose from Winshyters tight grasp Needless to say the brothers of Omega Tau Sigma were eagerly awaiting Spring and met it with great enthusiasm

The first major item of business Spring quarter was the election of ofshyficers for the coming year Those elected were as follows

PresidentmdashDon Heagren Vice PresidentmdashAllen Bryant SecretarymdashRon Bockbrader TreasurermdashRich Hersman Assistant TreasurermdashTom Isaac

THE CHIRONBy DON SANDERS Vet Med Ill

This last year the Student Chapter ofthe AVMA voted to establish a yearshybook for the College of Veterinary Medshyicine The yearbook was named The Chiron The name refers to the centaur in Greek mythology who was renownedfor his skill in Medicine

The yearbook was launched by Florshyence Rutledge as editor Penalized byinexperience and a late start Miss Rutshyledge and the staff managed to meet the

SPRING 1967

Sergeant-at-ArmsmdashJerry WolfParliamentarianmdashRalph Urmson ChaplainmdashRalph Broshes Rush ChairmanmdashJim Cobb Social ChairmenmdashJoe Starcher

Dave MacDonald Ron Conklin

House ManagermdashCharles Steinman The Brothers of Omega Tau Sigma

are sincere in thanking the retiring ofshyficers after an outstanding year and a job well done

After a fine intramural basketball season which netted a championship troshyphy OTS has again offered its chalshylenge in intramural events with severaltop softball teams

Socially Spring Quarter was again climaxed by the fabulous Senior Send-off and we say that modestly Of coursethe annual cocktail party at the house for Seniors only preceded the evening affair The party was held at Winding Hollow Country Club and exemplified the theme Regal Elegance A delishycious buffet dinner and drinks followed by dancing to Rick Monroes Quintet truly made Senior Sendoff the best everBrothers Grossi and Gurevitz chairshymen of the event can be commended for their efforts

As Spring Quarter draws to a close and the Seniors depart in pursuit of their goals we sincerely wish the best to them and hope that the Fraternityhas been and will continue to be a reshywarding and enjoyable experience for them

deadline for the publishers This yearshybook a true accomplishment for the editor and her staff will come off the press during the first part of June A few extra copies will be printed in case any alumni wish to purchase copies ($700)

Work has already begun on next years Chiron with Don Sanders as theincoming editor Anyone interested in a copy of the Chiron or interested in adshyvertising in next years issue pleasewrite to Don Sanders at the OSU Vetshyerinary Clinic 2578 Kenney Road Coshylumbus Ohio

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ALPHA PSI NEWS

ALPHA PSI By JAY FORSYTH Vet Med II

At the last meeting of the past quarshyter officers for the coming year were elected Jim Syler who did an outstandshying job as last years president was given the honor of serving another year Tom Burke was elected Vice Presshyident Tom Adams will serve as recordshying secretary Mike Snyder the new treasurer will be aided by Ron Montshygomery as assistant treasurer Dick

JIM ROSS (Continued from page 17)

University In the summer of 1966 he attended graduate school at Baylor Unishyversity College of Medicine Houston Texas

Dr Ross will receive his Master of Science degree in June of 1967 His thesis is entitled Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog Clinical and Physioshylogical Features

Beginning on July 1st 1967 Dr Rosswill be a member of the faculty at Bay-lor University College of Medicine with joint appointments in the departshyments of Physiology and Surgery

While an undergraduate student DrRoss became a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Omega Tau Sigma social frashyternities and of Phi Eta Sigma Gam-

Knight will serve as chief censor Jay Forsyth will act as corresponding secshyretary and Ed Stoughton will managethe house

Spring Quarter started off in greatstyle with a house party Alpha Psi thencombined with OTS and had a great time at Bridgeview Country Club

The speakers meeting for the past quarter included Dr R C Smith who spoke on the problems of setting upand running your own private practiceand Mr Joseph A Fodey Jr of CityNational Bank who spoke to the chapshyter about bankings relationship to theprofessional man

In the past two quarters the athleticteams of Alpha Psi have done well Boththe Freshmen and Sophomores broughthome trophies for their division titles Tuesday and Friday baseball squads arewarming up for title hopes after winshyning their league play despite the losses of Herb Betts with a broken foot and Brad Smith with a dislocated finshyger

Other spring events of Alpha Psi inshycluded the freshman welcome picnic onMay 15 1967 The sharp wit of Dr D0 Jones and the barbequed chicken were enjoyed by all The high point ofspring quarter was Senior Sendoff heldon May 26 1967 at the Hospitality Innat which the yearly awards were preshysented

ma Sigma Delta and Phi Zeta honorshyaries

Dr Ross will have a publication apshypearing in the Current VeterinaryTherapy 1967 (in press) entitled Dishyagnosis and Surgical Correction of Pashytent Ductus Arteriosus and Pulmonic Stenosis in the Dog On March 29th 1967 Dr Ross talked to the Northwesshytern OVMA on the subject Heart disease in small animal medicine He alshyso will talk on Diagnosis and SurgicalCorrection of the Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog at the National AVMA meeting in Dallas Texas in July of this year

Dr Ross is married He has a daughshyter Stephanie and his wife Marcia isexpecting a new arrival in June

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AVAAA FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Three members of the Junior Class

have been awarded AVMA grants for research in areas of veterinary medishycine Jon Bernstein is investigating speshycific renal and cardiovascular problemsHis sponsor Dr Robert Hamlin and the National Institute of Health are furnishing the necessary materials Usshying a radio-isotope technique Bernsteinwill be studying renal function of dogs in congestive heart failure He will deshytermine glomerular filtration rate renalblood flow and electrolyte excretion patterns before and after digitalization

Robert Stuhlman under the sponsorshyship of Dr Walter Loeb is using his horse His advisors are Dr Albert Gabel grant to develop a practical test which and Dr R B Heath Parameters monishyis diagnostic for the presence of hepa- tored will include arterial and venous

oxygen carbon dioxide and blood pH tocellular damage and its extent The respiratory rate and depth (pneumoshybasis of the test involves demonstrating graph) systolic and diastolic blood arginase activity with constant results pressures pulse rate and electrocardio-Roy Zinn will compare the effects of gram The ultimate goal of the project

succmylcholine alone and promazine is to evaluate the safety of intravenouswith succinylcholine on the cardiovascu- succinylcholine as an agent for casting lar and respiratory systems of the and restraint of the horse

QRowth bull gestationLactation

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Youre The DoctorBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

A female spayed basset hound IV2 years old was presented for rabies imshymunization with 5 ml of phenolized rashybies vaccine Five days later she was reshyturned in a semi-comatous condition The owner stated that her appetite waspoor ever since her vaccination On thisparticular morning she refused to rise and could not walk when forced to rise Thorough questioning eliminated the possible ingestion of any toxin

On physical examination the dog wasnon-responsive to stimuli Her anal sphincter was relaxed her pupils weremiotic and her temperature was 95deg The dog had a respiration rate of 40 perminute her heart rate was 30 per minshyute Hydration appeared normal but the dogs extremities were extremely cold Her urinary bladder was emptyand no urine could be obtained by cathshyeterization Peripheral lymph nodes were not enlarged nor were there any enlargements on abdominal palpation

The laboratory work done on the dogshowed that she had a PCV of 50 WBC of 7800 with 36 segs 7 non-segs 50 lymphs and 7 eos Her BUN was 147

mg100 ml creatinine was 6 mg100 ml Na was 131 meqL Cl was 96 meq L and K was 93 meqL Renal blood flow was 68 mlmin

The dog was given extensive treatshyment while hospitalized including perishytoneal dialysis She showed marked imshyprovement and so was sent home with medication seven days after admission Two days after dismissal the dog died

What is your diagnosis Doctor Answer on page 44

UPJOHN AWARDS Dale Duer was presented the Upjohn

Award for the most outstanding seniorin large animal medicine Dale is marshyried and is a member of the A V M A and Omega Tau Sigma Upon graduashytion Dale plans to enter large animal practice in Pennsylvania

Receiving the Upjohn Award for the most outstanding senior in small anishymal medicine was Guy Lockwood Guy is married and a member of the A V M A Omega Tau Sigma and Phi ZetaHe will be entering the U S Army Vetshyerinary Corps upon graduation

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Herd Health Management By JOHN C LEITE Vet Med IV PHILLIP A LINERODE DVM PhD

Herd Health Management is a totalapproach to large animal veterinarymedicine It combines into one programthe principles of preventive medicine and clinical medicine When properly apshyplied it could rejuvenate the Veterinarshyian-Farmer relationship

The herd health approach is based upon increasing a clients productivityinstead of running a salvage operationto keep him in business Ideally herd health management provides the means to secure optimum results from the entire herd The tools and techniquesused in herd health are principles ideasand experiments9 carefully and tactshyfully implemented

Since management is an integral part of the herd health approach it necessitates full cooperation of both the Veterinarian and the Farmer For this reason careful selection of clients for this approach is not only desirablebut absolutely essential Likewise the approach to secure cooperation is difshyferent for each farmer and is up to theingenuity of the Veterinarian The Farmer and the Veterinarian are not the only persons who should be inshyvolved in this approach to maximum production Often overlooked are lay people within the practice area who have special backgrounds information and talents that could help the proshygram The lay persons in this categoryare county extension agents vocationalagriculture teachers artificial insemshyination technicians local feed mill opshyerators and milking machine repair men The combined efforts of all these people can truly result in increased production and more profits for the farmer

It must be pointed out that the proshygram is long range and maximum beneshyfits cannot be gained in fewer than 5 or 6 generations in a herd Client confidence must be complete and full authority must be entrusted to the Veterinarian0 The type of operation is not important it may be dairy beef

SPRING 1967

swine sheep or equine the principles remain the same

The contractual arrangements beshytween client and practitioner vary withthe type of program and also the geoshygraphic area and its customs Some methods that have been used are13

1 charge on a straight call basis 2 charge by the hour 3 charge by the herd 4 charge for total herd work and

consultation to be done in a giventime (usually by the month or year)

5 charge a percentage of the inshycrease in net profit made by theuse of your service in herd health management

It would be a waste of time to inshyitiate a herd health program without the client being on some type of herd record keeping system For production Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) or Owner Sample (OS) recshyords could be kept with a preference for DHIA Information from producshytion records will aid greatly in detershymining individuals who are worthy of special attention When production records are combined with health recshyords they become invaluable in selectshying stock for the future Recently Morshyrow10 at Cornell University and Boyd Murray and Beck14 at Michigan State developed health records in the form of a folder with moveable colored tabs which indicate the breeding phase of each individual cow These systems however did not attempt to bring toshygether DHIA production records with health records and calf records Bishopand Linerode2 have developed a record keeping system which provides an allshyin-one record keeping system on an 8x10 inch manila folder A unique feashyture of this folder is color tabs to help the dairyman anticipate heat and to indicate the proper time to beginchallenge feeding This new system canbe used by the 1) Dairyman 2) Vetshy

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back inthe winners

circlewith

DANTAFUR(brand of nitrofurantoin)

J racheopharyngitis can lay a horse low fast keep him out of action result in important economic losses to the owner You can return the animal to peak performance quickly with Dantafurreg Administration of Dantafur promptly reverses the course of tracheopharyngitis It relieves coughing and nasal discharge returns the animal to normal breathing

In urinary tract infections Dantafur places imporshytant antibacterial concentrations in the urine within 30 minutes after administration It is effective and practically specific for the infected urinary tract resulting in dramatic cures and animals clinically and bacteriologically free from infection1

DOSAGE Dantafur mdash Tracheopharyngitis (Race Track Cough) mdash for each 225 lbs body weight adshyminister perorally an initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 5 days Urinary Tract Infections mdash for each 225 lbs body weight administer perorally an

initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 7 days and for at least 3 days after urine is sterile SUPPLIED Dantafurmdashoral suspension veterinary Each cc contains 15 mg nitrofurantoin in special suspending medium containing 10 alcohol bottles of 473 cc and 1250 cc As with any potent antibacterial agent administer with caution in cases of marked impairment of renal function safe dosage may be less than usually recommended 1 Witter R S Third Regional Conference on Nitrourans in Veterinary Medicine Atlanta Georgia January 14 1960

Available through your professional veterinary distributor

bdquo J ~ j L Nitrofurans-a unique class ol antimicrobialsorigpnated and developed by

JF^ EATON LABORATORIES laquoato^raquo Division of The Norwich Pharmacal Company ^ NORWICH NEW YORK

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erinarian 3) A I Technician and 4) the Milk Tester This system will proshyvide a means for the dairyman to keepup with his record keeping

Once adequate records are availshyable the veterinarian is ready to tackle the herd health problems In many cases changes must be gradualbecause of the inherent characteristics and attitudes of the client Divisions can be made in order to work on vashyrious aspects of the program and not all aspects need to be carried out at once Five aspects have been adopted in the Herd Health Management Proshygrams in the Wooster Ohio area

1 Mastitis Control 2 Nutrition 3 Fertility and Reproduction 4 Calf Management and Vaccination 5 SanitationThese are discussed below

1 Mastitis Control Mastitis may be defined as an inshy

flammation of the mammary gland reshysulting from the interplay of various etiologic factors their environment andthe host in question From the definishytion it may be assumed that no one causative agent is responsible for masshytitis

Degrees or clinical types of mastitiscan be recognized severe - acute mild shyacute or chronic and subclinical

The severe type can be easily recogshynized and must be treated immediatelyOne recommended treatment would be the administration of Posterior Pituishytary Extract strip out the quarters and administer Liquimycin and sulfa IV with a repeat treatment in 24 hours

The mild and subclinical forms may go unrecognized and therefore some type of screening test should be pershyformed prior to the attachment of the milking machine The most common and easiest test to run is the strip plateor strip cup but some subclinical and even the mild cases may still go unshynoticed The following more elaborate tests may be used to detect these formsof mastitis

California Mastitis Test (CMT)12

Lye Mastitis Test (LMT)4

Michigan Mastitis Test (MMT)4

Liquimycinreg Charles Pfizer amp Co New York NY

SPRING 1967

Whiteside Test9

A Whiteside Test or a Wisconsin Mastitis Test (WMT)12 may be run on bulk tanks to pick up the presence of mastitis in the herd

Further laboratory tests can be conshyducted on sterily collected milk samshyples

Culturemdashstreaking on BAP to obshytain isolation and tentative identishyfication

Catalase Test12mdashbased on the presshyence of catalase contained in sershyum white blood cells epithelial cells colostrum and bacteria

Coagulase Testmdashused to determine Staphoylococcus pathogenicity

Mastitis caused by infestious organshyism can be attributed almost 100 to Streptococcus agalactiia and Staphyshylococcus It has been said that the greatest economic loss is due to Streptococcus agalactiia This organism is easily diagnosed by the use of the Hotis Test and with proper treatment can be eliminated in the cow All cows should be tested once a montih for three months During this period the cows should be arranged in a milking seshyquence according to the results of the test The animals producing a positive test are treated by intramammary inshyfusion of 400000 units of penicillin in18cc of sterile distilled water into each quarter One treatment is usually sufshyficient to eradicate the organism The tests are then conducted every three months for the remainder of he yearand if the herd is free of the organismthey are then conducted at 6 month inshytervals1 To back a positive Hotis Testa Camp Test is run in the laboratory to prove or rule out the presence of a partial hemolizing agent

If Staphylococcus is suspected or proven the only treatment which may prove to be satisfactory is systemic treatment because of the location and pathogenic nature of the organism

Needless to say any cow with masshytitis should be placed last in the milkshying line and extra special sanitary preshycautions taken with her and the equipshyment A cow that fails to respond to treatment or has an irreversible fibshyrotic udder should be culled

Infective agents are not the only etiology for mastitis and the practionshy

41

er must maintain a keen eye to locate the other causes or possible causes and then have the condition corrected Othshyer etiologies may be improper milking injured teats and environmental 2 Nutrition

Good nutrition is an obvious and efshyfective tool for the progressive Veterishynarian to use in maintaining high proshyducers in a herd In general over half of the animal deaths are due to malnushytrition because inadequate nutrition will decrease the animals resistance to disshyease Nutrition is the cornerstone of success in herd health management and is often an overlooked factor in infertility It has been incriminated in fetal resorption and anestrus or failure to ovulate5

The basic approach would be to work out average requirements for the herd in digestible protein and Total Digestshyible Nutrients (TDN) A ration comshyposed of corn to supply TDN and soy bean oil meal to supply protein can fulfill the respective requirements and is economical Another rich source of protein is urea which can safely be used up to 3 of the ration It is availshyable in two forms 262 and 285 protein equivalents It is extremely cheap as compared to SBOM and the amount of protein derived from it A word of caution must be inserted here and that is to check with your local feed mill to see if they have the capashycity to mix urea into a ration Trace mineralized salt should be fed free choice

Forages and home grown grains should be tested periodically because it has been found that they may be below estimated textbook values3-5 depending on the type and condition of the growshying season

3 Fertility and Reproduction Fertility checks proper breeding and

a complete obstetrical program in the herd attempt to reach a goal of one calf per year from each cow As menshytioned before nutrition is a prime facshytor in fertility Once it is adequate a successful reproductive program can be launched

A cow should be palpated rectally 30 to 45 days after freshening to deshy

termine if uterine pathology is present or if the animal is ready to be bred on the next heat If pathology is present as indicated by an enlarged flaccid uterus that lacks tone the uterus should be infused with 4 million units of penicillin and 5 grams streptomycin combination mixed with 20cc of Utoshynex (2 mgm ethinyl estradiol and 20 mgm nitrofurathiazide) A cow that is bred on the heat after palpation would place the breeding date approximately 60 days after freshening The cow is then checked at 45-60 days after breedshying to determine if conception has ocshycurred and again prior to being dried off to detect any possible fetal resorpshytion or mummification5 The 45-60 day post breeding check is done to minimize lost time if conception did not occur on the initial breeding or if the fershytilized ova was lost and subsequent heat periods were missed

To aid the student and the clinician in palpating an approximate set of measurements of the whole bulge of the amniotic sac has been proposed

hens egg 40 days baseball 50 days softball 60 days volleyball 70 days basketball 80 days

Additional criteria can be used to apshyproximate the length of the pregnancy

35-60 days mdash slipping of the fetal membranes

85-90 days mdash fremitis of the midshydle uterine artery

110-120 days mdash presence of cotelyshydons

When following a regular program of rectal palpation abnormal conditions can be detected before they become irshyreversible Regular rectal palpation will clearly define the ovarian activity With this method of diagnosis expensive problem cows can be culled from the milk line or treated in an attempt to correct the difficulty In this program an accurate up to date set of records is essential

4 Calf Management and Vaccination This phase begins before the calf is

dropped The cow should be moved to a special maternity stall which is built to accommodate one cow very comfortshyably The calving stalls should be

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cleaned and disinfected between occushypants contain adequate clean bedding have good drainage be warm and have good ventilation The bedding should be changed periodically during the occupants tenure When the calf is dropped the umbilicus should be swabbed with a tincture of iodine and the fetal membranes removed before the cow can ingest them By performshying these simple tasks the new born has been given a much greater chance for survival When the time arrives for the calf to be separated from its mother it should be moved to an inshydividual calf stall When calves are pastthe stage of suckling one another theycan then be moved to clean well bedded and ventilated quarters which will acshycommodate several calves Nutrition is often overlooked in the calf crop in that they are usually fed the formushylated ration of the milking string A separate ration should be calculated forthe calves which is much higher in proshytein to accommodate fast growth The development of the calf during this period will have a direct influence onceshe enters the milk line Before reachshying the age of four months (120 days) calves are vaccinated for Brucellosis TB tested dehorned and have supershynumary teats removed If the owner so desires the calves may be vaccishynated for IBR and BVD at this time

The calf management program proshyvides a total health effort to improve the future milk string of the operashytion The program when followed dilishygently should provide for excellent calf survival with losses less than 1

5 Sanitation Sanitation should be the center of a

herd health program or the hub aroundwhich the other four aspects of the program revolve however it is often the most overlooked or neglected pracshytice in operations today It not only includes the premises but also theanimals and equipment

Junk and trash lying around the farm and especially around the barn and grain storage areas promote rats and mice Junk trash dirt cobwebs inside the barn present physical hazshyards to the animals This material is also a potential health hazard for it may provide the reservoir that disease

SPRING 1967

needs in order to be propagated Improper drainage in the stall area

exercise lot and loafing shed promotethe accumulation of urine and feces and increase the possibility of animal foot problems and other health probshylems Manure is always a disposal probshylem but it must be cleaned daily fromthese areas and not allowd to accumushylate Bedding material must be changedfrequently if the animal urinates or dencates within the resting space Cowson which feces are allowed to accumushylate are health hazards to the herd and show a sign of poor management These cows should be washed and brushed to clean this material from their body

The housing and work areas must have adequate lighting so that the opshyerator and the Veterinarian may havemore ideal conditions in which to work More problem areas can be seen in a well lighted area than in a dark or dimly lit area Ventilation should be perfect so as to promote a healthy atshymosphere for the animals and lessen the possibility of money being lost due to respiratory diseases The principlesof admitting ample fresh air high andremoving the tainted air low will rid the area of moisture and foul ammonia fumes from urine

When designing the ventilation sysshytem it must be remembered that when admitting the fresh air the inlets mustbe planned so that there is one inlet of 60 sq in for every 3i2 - 1000 anishymal units The inlets can be placed at various places around the barn or stable area To eject the air a flue should beconsidered only if the distance from the highest point on the barn roof to the ground is 30 ft or more7 The flue size will be determined by the volume of the area to be evacuated It is imshyportant to place a door in the flue nearthe ceiling This door can be opened inthe summer months to aid in movingthe hot air which accumulates near the ceiling If the distance from the highshyest point on the barn roof to the groundis less than 30 ft a mechanical type system must be employed to evacuate the area The same principle applies in the mechanical systemmdashenter the fresh air high and exit the stale air low The number of mechanical units

43

needed should be sufficient to provide a complete change of air six times every hour Sanitation also includes themilking parlor the equipment used and the technique employed in the acshytual milking The incidence of mastitis can increase when strict sanitary proshycedures are not adhered to The udder and especially the teats should be washed thoroughly with a mild soap and one of the iodine antiseptic prepshyarations This procedure not only stimushylates milk let down but reduces the possibility of spreading bacteria and contaminating the milk or other udshyders The inflation cups should be dipped into an iodine preparation inshysuring that the whole cup has been cleansed The cups then should be placed on the teat (after a strip plate test has been run) without allowingthem to touch the ground or other obshyjects such as bedding The wash waterand the water used to dip the teat cupsshould be changed at fifteen cow in-

This article is submitted due to interest shown by many and with the firm belief that Herd Health Management is the future of large anishymal practice The article was condensed from a paper prepared by Jack Leite for Dr Line-rode as part of the requirement for VeterinaryPreventive Medicine 740 Much of what is outshylined in this article comes from experience gained on field trips to Wooster Ohio area where herd health management programs are being conducted in five private dairy herds with the cooperation and participation of Drs Don Noah and Robert Mairs

1 A Syllabus on the Bovine Mammary Gland in Health amp Disease Department of Clinishycal Pathology School of Veterinary Medishycine University of California Davis Calishyfornia Schalm OW

2 Bishop J P amp Linerode PA Dairy Herd Health Management Record System Ohio State University 1967

3 Coppock CE amp Tyrell HE Feeding Recshyommendations for Lactating Cows Modern Veterinary Practice vol 48 1 January 1967

4 Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio

3 Drewry GH The Total Program Approachto Herd Health Management Modern Vetshyerinary Practice vol 48 2 February 1967

6 Guss Samuel B Milking Machines and Mastitis Modern Veterinary Practice vol 45 12 October 15 1964

7 Helwig John H Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinshyary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Personal Communication

44

tervals throughout the milking proshycedure

The herd health management proshygram does not eliminate the emergencycalls The practitioner should be preshypared for them but the program shouldreduce the frequency of such calls andimproves the environment in which theVeterinarian must work Herd Health Management allows the farmer to proshyduce the greatest quantity of his proshyduct at the highest quality for the least cost A guideline in establishing a herd health program entitled Proshygramming Herd Health can be obshytained from Veterinary Practitioners Counseling Service VM Publishing Inc 144 N Nettleton Street Bonner Springs Kansas This aid to the pracshytitioner is available for Beef or Dairy operations at a nominal fee and may be a worth while investment for any one thinking of doing herd health work

8 Linerode Phillip A Department of Vetershyinary Preventative Medicine College of Vetshyerinary Medicine The Ohio State Universishyty Personal Communication

9 Modern Veterinary Practice vol 15 12 October 15 1964 p 8-62

10 Morrow DA Herd Health Records Corshynell University

11 Rice RE Trends in Large Animal Pracshytice Norden News vol 41 3 1966

12 US Department of Health Education and Welfare Screening Tests for Detection of Abnormal Milk 1965

13 Steere James H Modern Veterinary Pracshytice Reference and Data Service Large Anishymal 4 p A-8-8

14 Veterinary Clinic amp Dairy Dept Cooperashytive Extension Service Michigan State Unishyversity East Lansing Michigan

15 Woelffer EA Modern Veterinary Practice Reference and Data Service Large Animal 4 p A-8-19

YOURE THE DOCTOR (Continued)

Answer This dog had adrenal hyposhycortism or Addisons Disease The diagshynosis was confirmed by performing theThorn Test The preinjection samplecontained 1765 eoscu mm Two hoursafter the injection of ACTH the samshyple contained 1468 eoscu mm After four hours the sample contained 1815eoscu mm Necropsy confirmed thatthe dog had had adrenal hypocortisni

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Rodney FergusonRD 3East Liverpool OhioTexas A amp M University-Resident Large Animal

Clinics AVMA OTS Phi Zeta

Ronald J Frank 4430 Tindall St NWWashington DC 20016Hancock Air Base Syracuse NY 13225AVMA OTS

Dorothea L Freitas Far Hills NJ 07931360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York N Y 10021Internship - Animal

Medical Center AVMA Secy Phi Zeta

Speculum Co-editorClass Secy

Robert A Fritz Sylvania RoadToledo Ohio654 Stimmelmdash14 Columbus Ohio 43223USAF in MichiganAVMA OTS Treas

Speculum Assoc EditorCheron PhotographyEditor

Joseph Grossi JrMeadowbrook Manor Wintersville OhioMontgomery Animal

Hospital7700 Montgomery RoadCincinnati OhioAVMA OTS Class

Secy

Richard H Gurevitz 269-4 N Chesterfield Rd Columbus Ohio 43209Becher Animal HospitalColumbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Awards

Banquet ChairmanOTS Social ChairmanPledge Master GammaClass Pres Award

Dennis D HardyEden Idaho University of CaliforniaDavis California Internship Large Animal

Med amp Sur AVMA

James Hatfield D D 9

Bethel Ohio 45106AVMA

Thomas D HeadingSo Missouri Ave Wellston OhioPaine Air Field Everett WashingtonUSAF AVMA OTS

Daniel R Helvoigt1014 Fremont St Dover Ohio Rt 3 Shippensburg Pa90 Dairy PracticeAVMA Mark Morris

Fellow

William E Hendricks 100 E 6th Street West Lafayette OhioChicago 111 US ArmyAVMA OTS

Robert Henry R 3 Cardington Ohio 43315Bunker Hill Animal

Hospital6220 Jefferson Rd Ashtabula OhioMixed Practice AVMA Class Pres

Ron Jenne 1125 Eastgate RdToledo OBoston Mass after Nov

1567US ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

THE SPECULUM 20

Philip Johnson7580 Shawnee Run Rd Cincinnati Ohio656 Riverview Drive Columbus OhioLaboratory Animal

Medicine OSU AVMA

J Thomas LangRFD 1 Big Prairie OhioQuakertown Ani HospQuakertown PennsylvaniaDairy PracticeAVMA OTS

Donald R Kaeser 4871 Olentangy River RdColumbus Ohio121 Harvey AveDoylestown PaBuckingham Animal

HospitalBuckingham PennsylvaniaMixed mainly large

animal practiceAVMA OTS

Randy Kidd7629 Clark State Road Blacklick OhioMixed Practice AVMA OTS

President

Richard C Koritansky14032 GAR HighwayChardon Ohio 44024Abbotsford Veterinary

Clinic Ltd PO Box 96 Abbotsford British

Columbia CanadaLarge Animal PracticeAVMA Alpha Psi

corresponding secygtStudent Council

Dean Karl Kraus co Mr Charles OttoRoute 2 and 6 East Huron OhioTredyffrin Veterinary

Hospital1476 Lancaster Avenue Paoli Pennsylvania 19301Small Animal Practice AVMA class

rep resentati vetreasurer speakersbureau

Communications Chairman of Live Surgery Exhibit

Daniel E Lafontaine RR 1 Alvada Ohio Persidio of San Francisco San Francisco Calif US ArmyAVMA OTS

John C Leite 812 Clinton St Fremont 01877 Oakland Park Columbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Guy C Lockwood125 E Como Avenue Columbus Ohio Pentagon

Washington DC 20315Washington DCUS ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Small AnimalClinician Award

Lance O Lollini 430 Sinclair Street Yorkville OhioFt Bragg North CarolinaUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Phi

Phi Zeta

James C Lonz Route 3 Norwalk OhioYuma Test Station Yuma Arizona US ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta class treasStudent Council

E Clinton LowryForest Hill West Virginia360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York NY 10021Small Animal Internship shy

Animal Medical Center AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Co-chairman Pre-Vet Day Clinic InternClass Treas

Bruce Marhefka Kensington OhioUniversity of Minnesota shy

College of Vet MedSmall Animal Surgery shy

Instructor AVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day listening booth

SPRING 1967 21

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MANOREWS 0 BAKTON K BERNARD P BINNIG J BISHOP P S L E S E J B O N H A M J BOOTH G BOWMAN G- BREZNOCK MBUTLER R DAILEY

L OILUZIO D DUERR J EHLER PFERGUSON PFRANK D FREITAS RFRITZ RGUREV1TZ 0 HARDY T HATP1ELD T HEADING

S 0 HELVOIGT W HENOMCKS RHENRY PJENNE OPRATT 8SAYLE J GROSS PJOHNSON 0 KAESER RKiOD RKORITANSKY

VtCE-PRSB PRESIDENT SKt shy TREAS

0 KRAUS 0 LAF0NTA1NE JT L A N G J LEITE

COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

G U3CKW000 L LOLLINI J LONZ C lOWfOT

BMARHEfKA CMCCONNELL MMCGANNON JMEHLING L MILEY RMYERS TOWEN DPAULO J PRATT J PURVI S M R A D C U F F E C R A F L O

WRANNELLS BREYNOLDS F BUTLEDQE GRSfKORA RSOLONER JWAGNER RWHJPPS WYAKLIY MYOUSHAK M ZARNETT J ZINES

Charles T McConnell 707 Main Street Toronto OhioLewis Animal HospitalCincinnati OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Phi Zeta

Exhibit Chairman Pre-Vet Day

Mel McGannon Box 143 Windsor OhioBoyds Animal HospitalGeneva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Clinic Intern

John A Mehling 118 N Wood Street Fremont OhioCollege of Veterinary

Medicine Cornell UniversityIthaca NY Dairy Practice shy

Ambulatory ClinicianAVMA

Larry Miley R i Eaton OhioFt Snelling after Nov

15 1967 Minneapolis MinnUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Pre Vet Day guide

Richard A Myersco Richard D Myers1271 Arbor Lane Marion OhioClover Park Veterinary

HospitalTacoma WashingtonSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Terry Owen4671 Venus Road Uniontown Rd 2 Ohio Letterman General HospSurgical amp Physiological

Research San Francisco Cal US ArmyAVMA OTS Pre-

Vet Day

F Daniel Paulo RD 1 Box 100 North Jackson OhioBeale AFB CaliforniaUSAF AVMA class

representative secretaryOTS Student Council

John Carl Pratt Rankins Creek Road South Point Ohio 45680South Point OhioMixed Mostly Large

Animal PracticeAVMA

Orben Pratt Jr Rt 1 St Paris Ohio 43072Ft McArthur Los Angeles CaliforniaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

intramural sports

James Purvis 525 KensingtonMiddletown Ohio 45042Lynch Animal Hospital3410 Tytus AveMiddletown OSmall Animal PracticeAVMA OTS

Intramural SportsStudent Council

Michael Radcliffe 2587 Mt Holyoke DriveColumbus Ohio 43221San Francisco Calif Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Charles P Raflo 6267 Elbrook Avenue Cincinnati Ohio 45237Aberdeen Proving Ground

MarylandUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Recording SecyChief Censor

William T Rannells RFD 1 New Plymouth Ohio

45654New Plymouth OhioMixed Practice AVMA

Bill B ReynoldsRt 3 Box 510Clarksburg W Va Reynolds Animal HospitalClarksburg W Va Mixed Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Student CouncilPresident Master of Ceremonies at AVMA Awards Banquet

THE SPECULUM 24

Florence Rutledge11815 Davis Court Lakewood Ohio 44107Gasow Veterinary Hospital1521 North Woodward

Ave Birmingham Michigan

48011 Small Animal Practice AVMA Chiron Editor

Sigma Gamma DeltaBorden Award Phi Zeta

William R SayleChagrin Falls Ohio 44042Amherst Animal HospitalAmherst Ohio 44001Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Intramurals PledgeMaster PresidentStudent Council

Speculum Chiron Gamma Award ClassPresident Merck Award

Richard Soldner 3322 Maize Rd Columbus OhioSpringfield Animal

Hospital36 Warder StreetSpringfield OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS PhiZeta Exhibit Chairman

Pre-Vet Day

George R SikoraHinckley OhioRichards amp Gebauer

AFBKansas City MoUSAF Base

Veterinarian AVMA Phi Zeta

Chiron SpeculumAlpha Psi Award

Joseph L Wagner6921 Salem Road Cincinnati Ohio 45030Laboratory Animal

FacilitySchool of Medicine shy

University of NorthCarolina

Chapel Hill NorthCarolina 27514

Laboratory AnimalMedicine - Graduate School

AVMA OTS PhiZeta AVMAFoundation ScholarshipMark Morris Research

Fellow Pre-Vet Day Speculum

Co-editor

Richard D Whipps1447 Thurell Rd Columbus OhioFort Lewis Spokane WashingtonUS ArmyAVMA Chiron

Business Mgr SpeakersBureau Chairman

William Lee Yakely1309 Cross Street Dover OhioWashington State

University - College ofVeterinary Medicine

Resident AVMA Co-Chairman

Publicity amp Picnic Committee ChairmanLive Surgery ExhibitTreasurer Vice-President OTSChairman Awards

AVMA Auxiliary AwardCommittee MarkMorris Research Fellow

Michael Youshak Huntsburg OhioVeterinary PathologyOhio State University1925 Coffey RoadColumbus OhioPost-Doctoral Graduate

ProgramAVMA President

OTS Phi Zeta PhizerAward Alpha PsiAlumni Award Speculum Chiron Pre-Doctoral FellowPublicity Co-ChairmanPre-Vet Day LiveSurgery ExhibitProgram ChairmanIntramurals

Martin Harold Zarnett 862 E 17th St Brooklyn New York 11230Aqueduct RacetrackSaratoga RacewayAiken amp Camden So Carolina Equine PracticeAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day Guide Asst LiveSurgery Exhibit

Jack B Zines MC 24 Salem OhioLarge Animal PracticeAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

SPRING 1967

One of our salesmen made his first calls in this

Seems he started calling on veterinarians 40 years ago He didnt think about selling He thought about animals diseases how to cure them or prevent them Hed recomshymend this that or the other of his products that he thought would be most helpful And the veterinarians liked him Still do In fact nowadays hes calling on the sons of some of his original customers And his point of view is pretty much like that of the rest of our salesmen Their average length of service is 16 years When you stay with a company that long you dont exactly sell it Youre part of it

P I T M A N - M O O R E Division of The Dow Chemical Company Midland Michigan 48640

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PRE-VET DAY - 1967By E DAN WOLF Vet Med Ill

Informative educational professionshyally presentedmdashthese were a few of theevaluations expressed by the 510 pershysons who attended Pre-Vet Day 1967

Following registration tour groups of 25-30 people were formed and each group was led by two student guides through Sisson Hall Goss Pathology Laboratory and the Veterinary ClinicThe program consisted of informative speeches and a tour of the College Theofficial College welcome was extended byDr Walter Venzke This was followed by brief descriptions of the various fields of veterinary medicine Dr Roshybert Hamlin education and research Dr D 0 Jones public health Dr BruceWenger small animal practice Dr James Donham and Dr Clyde Purdy large animal practice Dean Krill then explained the academic and personal qualifications for admission to the colshylege

The tour of the college consisted of explanations and displays illustratingthe function of each department Thesewere prepared and presented by the stushydents and included Anatomy mdash Ron Bockbrader and Dave

HenryBacteriology mdash Jim Guenther Robert

Temple and Stan EichelbergerParasitology mdash Scott Anderson and

Dave Farris Physiology and Pharmacology mdash Frank

Pipers and Steve KurtzerPreventive Medicine mdash Tom Cummins

and Dick Smolen Library mdash Sharon Schumann and Ken

Clever

Pathology mdash Tom Burke Mike Wanskyand Bruce McCullough

Small Animal Medicine mdash Bill Sayle andTed Panhuis

Small Animal Surgery mdash Dick Soldner Ralph Urmson and Doug Cbatney

Large Animal Medicine mdash Harold Fershyguson Bill Reynolds and Fred Adams

Large Animal Surgery mdash Dale Duerr Dick Dailey and Dave McDonald

Ambulatory mdash James Booth Ames Alshylen and Gary Bowman

Clinical Pathology mdash Charles McConshynell Jack Zines and Bill Sternecker

Radiology mdash James Syler and Victoria Voith Some of the departmental programs

presented were Evaluation of Various Physiological Parameters Studies on Gnotobiotic Animals The Physical Exshyamination Basic Surgical Equipment Preparation and Common Surgical Sitshyuations Foaling Rumenotomy and GasAnesthesia Equipment

The majority of those attending Pre-Vet Day seemed to be quite interestedand awed by the varied knowledge andthe professional qualifications of the veterinarian

Lunch was served at both Sisson Hall and the Clinic by the Pre-Vet Club Much work was required and several problems had to be overcome to presentto the public the true picture of veterinshyary medicine (Not the least of these problems was presenting the professionshyal aspects of veterinary medicine in a garage) Everyone who worked so hard to present Pre-Vet Day 1967 deshyserves hearty congratulations

SPRING 1967 27

REPORT ON SPEAKERS BUREAUBy RICHARD WHIPPS Vet Med IV This year the Speakers Bureau of

the AVMA Student Chapter has enshyjoyed its most successful year to date The Speakers Bureau was organizedthree years ago in an effort to inform the public of the broad scope of vetershyinary medicine Junior and senior vetshyerinary students have presented our profession to 4-H Clubs AgriculturalClubs and Survey Classes high schoolsand even to elementary school classesEach speaking engagement is usually handled by a team consisting of one senior and one junior with the senior student handling most of the speaking chores A stimulating question-and-anshyswer period follows almost every preshysentation

Student speakers participated in cashyreer-day programs in high schools throughout central Ohio including Coshylumbus Newark Lancaster and Censhyterburg Speakers presented mogtre specshyialized topics within the realm of vetshyerinary medicine to the Grove City Horsemasters 4-H Club the Wilmingshyton College Agricultural Club and Ag

AVMA NEWS By JUDY SAUERBREI Vet Med Ill This quarter as usual the student

chapter has been very active Pre-Vet Day (held Saturday April 15th) was a success with 510 people registering TheChiron the AVMA sponsored Colshylege of Veterinary Medicine yearbook has been mailed to the publishers and will be delivered to the student body byearly June The very active Speakers Bureau will continue to fulfill requestsfor guest speakers received throughoutthe summer New chairman of this comshymittee will be senior Tom Cummins Also this summer the Live Surgery exshyhibit which is presently at the Center of Science and Industry will be movedto Cincinnati for the Hamilton County Fair and then back to Columbus for The Ohio State Fair in August-Septemshyber

Members have enjoyed some very inshyteresting and informative programsthis quarter including a fine talk by ColScott Radcliff of the Ohio State Patrol

Survey classes and the Central Ohio Cocker Spaniel Club Topics for discusshysion included careers in veterinary medshyicine latest theories and developments in our profession various aspects ofveterinary preventive medicine and therole of the veterinarian in aerospace medicine The record for the longest distance traveled by student speakersthis year is held by the team who spoketo the Beta Beta Beta biological honorshyary of Marietta College

As chairman of the Speakers Bushyreau I would like to thank all the stushydents who served as speakers this yearEach person served his profession wellI am certain that the outreach of the Speakers Bureau will continue to grow as it presents the expanding field of veterinary medicine to the general pubshylic whose knowledge of our profession is in too many instances sadly lackingI would also like to express a specialthanks to Dr Donald Gisler of our facshyulty for giving his time and talents so that our presentations could be of the best possible quality

on Traffic Accidents and a large anishymal panel Members of this panel wereDr Albert Gabel of the OSU Veterinshyary Clinic Dr D G Miller SugarcreekDr Warren Amling London Dr Ed Kennedy Miamiville Dr Donald Moss-burger Bloomingburg Ohio

Other events for members of Student Chapter of AVMA included the Anshynual Awards Banquet on May 19th atthe Grandview Inn and the Spring Picshynic held on May 24th at Big Bear Farms

At the last meeting of the Student Chapter for Spring Quarter 1967 elecshytion of officers was held New officers for the academic year of 1967-68 will be President - Tom Hickey President-elect - Dick Hersman Vice President shyRalph Urmson Secretary - Sharon Schuman Treasurer - Bruce McCullocih These new officers have the great reshysponsibility of continuing to maintain the high standards of leadership exhibshyited by their predecessors

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Ohio State Fair Veterinary Medicine ExhibitBy DAVE ZIMMERMAN Vet Med Ill

For quite a few years the Ohio StateUniversity Student Chapter of the AVMA has presented an informative exhibit concerning veterinary medicineat the Ohio State Fair Last year this project took on a much wider scope Forthe first time live surgery was pershyformed in a modern portable surgical operating room Large pleriglass winshydows and closed circuit television enshyhanced the vantage point of the viewshying public

Again this summer the project will be presented at the Ohio State Fair Present plans call for two surgical proshycedures to be performed daily bylicensed and academy practicing veterishynarians representing their local acadeshymies with narration by students Talks

demonstrations and movies presentingthe complete and varied field of veterishynary medicine will round out the daily program

The purpose of the exhibit is to edushycate the public as to the wide rangeand high quality of service provided bythe modern veterinary clinic Althoughthis project is presented by the stushydents its aim is recognition of public and private practitioners through pubshylic exposure and education All demonshystrations will be presented in the proshyfessional and exacting way that modernveterinary medicine is practiced We feel certain that after a person has witshynessed the procedures presented he willbe much more aware of the ability posshysessed by his veterinarian

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Canine Research Projects SupportedBy The Columbus Collie Club

The Columbus Collie Club donated $3000 to the Ohio State University Vetshyerinary Medicine to be used in Canine research projects The grant was dishyvided among the following projectswhich will be conducted between June 1967 and June 1968 by seniors in the college

Richard Kight Tom Cummins Bob Smatt Dick Flinn L Joe Starcher

FULL THICKNESS BONE GRAPHS IN THE CANINE Seniors Tom Cumshymins Dick Flinn Gene Hofacre Bob Smatt Advisor Dr Richard Rudy

Full thickness bone graphs will be employed in the femur and radius of mature 25-40 pound beagle type dogsThe periosteum of the femur will be inshycised and elevated and the shaft transhysected proximally and distally and thenremoved The shaft will then be splitlongitudinally with care being taken to preserve the endosteum One-half will be discarded the other replaced in its former position The periosteum will beclosed Fixation will consist of an intrashymedullary pin and orthopedic wire Onthe anterior limb the radius will be exshyposed the periosteum split and eleshyvated A 25 cm piece of radius will then be removed Prior to this procedshyure an incision will have been made at the distal portion of the 7th rib and a

5 cm piece of rib removed with the periosteum intact This piece will be cut in half transversely The two secshytions side by side will be secured in theradial defect A Kirsthner splint andorthopedic wire will be used for fixation

The dogs will then be observed for eight weeks and the fracture sites willbe evaluated as to the strength and stashybility of the union

During the course of the study the dogs will be handled as much like acshytual clinical cases as possible Strict aseptic procedures will be carried out and the dogs will be adequately medishycated as would a clinical case

If shown to be successful the typeof graph described above may be utilshyized clinically in restoration of the conshytinuity of bones too severely fractured to be reduced by simpler and convenshytional techniques

QUANTITATIVE DETERMINAshyTION OF CORTICOSTEROIDS PROshyDUCED BY THE ADRENAL CORshyTEX Senior L Joe Starcher Advisshyors Dr Philip W Murdick Dr Edshyward F Donovan

From the results of this project it ishoped that the normal canine corticosshyteroid levels can be determined and a routine testing procedure established Itis possible that such a test would be asuseful as the blood test urinalysis andfecal examination when a complete exshyamination of a dog is done

A METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE RESIN-SPONGE TRIIODOTHROshyNINE UPTAKE TECHNIQUE IN DEshyTECTING THYROID FUNCTION OF THE DOG Senior Victoria L Voith Advisor Dr Walter Lobe

This experiment entails keeping twelve dogs-four in euthyroid four in hypothyroid and four in hyperthyroid states Blood samples will be drawn bishyweekly for three weeks and used to pershyform the resin-sponge triiodothyronine uptake test When radioactive iodine labeled triiodothyronine (T-3) is added

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to a serum sample it first saturates the It is unlikely although possible that unoccupied thyroid-binding sites on the practitioner will perform this tech-Thyroid Binding Protein (TBP) The nique himself but the blood sample remaining T-3 is taken up by the resin- could easily be sent to a laboratory sponge added to the sample The total equipped to perform such a test amount of T-3 is determined Then afshyter incubation the resin-sponge is CLINICAL EVALUATION OF RE-rinsed free of serum and with it the T-3 NAL F U N C T I O N Senior Dick bound to TBP The radioactivity re- Knight Advisor Dr Robert Candon maining in the resin-sponge is then de- The present clinical laboratory parashytermined The percent of radioactive meters for evaluation of renal function T-3 taken up by the resin-sponge is in- are incomplete and poorly understoodversely proportional to the unsaturated The dog that has renal impairment butsites on the TBG and directly propor- does not show frank clinical evidence of tional to the amount of endogenous thy- impairment is the animal that needs roxine and triiodothyronine circulating clinical outlines This animal is the one

The invitro technique used in this ex- that can be helped the most with earlyperiment has been shown to be an ac- therapy andor prophylactic regimes curate and safe method of assessing The purpose of the study is to define thyroid function in human beings The and evaluate clinical parameters for theexperiment is designed to determine the evaluations of glomerular filtration ratevalidity of this test in detection of the renal plasma flow tubular maximum canine thyroid function Since this tech- and sodium-potassium excretion in nique employs the use of serum and nephretic dogs Then if possible the de-does not expose the dog to radioactive velopment of a simple clinical test to iodine it has the possibilities of becom- accomplish these procedures will be atshying of diagnostic use to the practitioner tempted

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NIH HEART GRANTBy FRANK PIPERS Vet Med Ill

Mutual interest on the part of a numshyber of research groups on campus conshyceived the idea of synthesizing capabilishyties and efforts with the end result beshying the formation and aquisition of an NIH grant entitled Biology of the Heart Participating in this endeavor are the Department of Veterinary Physhysiology College of Veterinary Medicineand the Departments of Physiology Medicine and Pathology College of Medicine

The two co-principal directors are Drs Smith and Warren There is a six man Steering Committee and approxishymately 20 to 25 professional efforts with an additional 15 to 20 man technical staff

The overall objective is to study allaspects of the normal and failing heartThe principle endeavors of this project will be

1) ultra microscopy of the failing heart

2) metabolism of the failing rat heart

3) bloodflow to visera and peripheral circulation

4) hemodynamics of the horse5) cardiac and renal function in dogs

with heart disease 6) ventricular and atrial activation

processes in cattle 7) uses of the computer in analyzing

electrocardiographic data of varshyious species

The nucleus of the microscopic workis at Starling Loving Hall where thereis an electron microscope The nucleus for macroscopic experimentation is at

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Sisson Hall where the installation of a $200000 facility has just been comshypleted The facility consists of

1) office space and a conference room2) two modern biochemistry laborashy

tories 3) One general research laboratory 4) a catheterization laboratory with

an adjoining dark room5) large animal laboratory with tilt-

table 6) a laboratory animal lab7) large walk-in refrigerator8) small animal holding quarters9) large animal holding quarters

10) mobile laboratory (which contains2 labs equipment area large anishymal holding stocks and a dark room)

The facilities encompass 6000 squarefeet and are located in the southern half of the basement of Sisson Hall

Although this is an interdisciplinary effort there are obvious advantages toour College

1) It will bring equipment and techshynology to our school

2) It will aid in training and teachshying of graduate veterinarians

3) We can glean information from research to apply to a clinical medium

4) We will have prestige from the success of the faculty

5) We should have the ability to atshytract high quality people to comeand study at our College

We are very proud of the developshyment of this facility and we wish it well

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OMEGA TAU SIGAAA NEWS By RONALD H BOCKBRADER

For all those non believers it can honshyestly be said that Spring has finally arshyrived in all its splendor despite severalfalse attempts to break loose from Winshyters tight grasp Needless to say the brothers of Omega Tau Sigma were eagerly awaiting Spring and met it with great enthusiasm

The first major item of business Spring quarter was the election of ofshyficers for the coming year Those elected were as follows

PresidentmdashDon Heagren Vice PresidentmdashAllen Bryant SecretarymdashRon Bockbrader TreasurermdashRich Hersman Assistant TreasurermdashTom Isaac

THE CHIRONBy DON SANDERS Vet Med Ill

This last year the Student Chapter ofthe AVMA voted to establish a yearshybook for the College of Veterinary Medshyicine The yearbook was named The Chiron The name refers to the centaur in Greek mythology who was renownedfor his skill in Medicine

The yearbook was launched by Florshyence Rutledge as editor Penalized byinexperience and a late start Miss Rutshyledge and the staff managed to meet the

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Sergeant-at-ArmsmdashJerry WolfParliamentarianmdashRalph Urmson ChaplainmdashRalph Broshes Rush ChairmanmdashJim Cobb Social ChairmenmdashJoe Starcher

Dave MacDonald Ron Conklin

House ManagermdashCharles Steinman The Brothers of Omega Tau Sigma

are sincere in thanking the retiring ofshyficers after an outstanding year and a job well done

After a fine intramural basketball season which netted a championship troshyphy OTS has again offered its chalshylenge in intramural events with severaltop softball teams

Socially Spring Quarter was again climaxed by the fabulous Senior Send-off and we say that modestly Of coursethe annual cocktail party at the house for Seniors only preceded the evening affair The party was held at Winding Hollow Country Club and exemplified the theme Regal Elegance A delishycious buffet dinner and drinks followed by dancing to Rick Monroes Quintet truly made Senior Sendoff the best everBrothers Grossi and Gurevitz chairshymen of the event can be commended for their efforts

As Spring Quarter draws to a close and the Seniors depart in pursuit of their goals we sincerely wish the best to them and hope that the Fraternityhas been and will continue to be a reshywarding and enjoyable experience for them

deadline for the publishers This yearshybook a true accomplishment for the editor and her staff will come off the press during the first part of June A few extra copies will be printed in case any alumni wish to purchase copies ($700)

Work has already begun on next years Chiron with Don Sanders as theincoming editor Anyone interested in a copy of the Chiron or interested in adshyvertising in next years issue pleasewrite to Don Sanders at the OSU Vetshyerinary Clinic 2578 Kenney Road Coshylumbus Ohio

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ALPHA PSI NEWS

ALPHA PSI By JAY FORSYTH Vet Med II

At the last meeting of the past quarshyter officers for the coming year were elected Jim Syler who did an outstandshying job as last years president was given the honor of serving another year Tom Burke was elected Vice Presshyident Tom Adams will serve as recordshying secretary Mike Snyder the new treasurer will be aided by Ron Montshygomery as assistant treasurer Dick

JIM ROSS (Continued from page 17)

University In the summer of 1966 he attended graduate school at Baylor Unishyversity College of Medicine Houston Texas

Dr Ross will receive his Master of Science degree in June of 1967 His thesis is entitled Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog Clinical and Physioshylogical Features

Beginning on July 1st 1967 Dr Rosswill be a member of the faculty at Bay-lor University College of Medicine with joint appointments in the departshyments of Physiology and Surgery

While an undergraduate student DrRoss became a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Omega Tau Sigma social frashyternities and of Phi Eta Sigma Gam-

Knight will serve as chief censor Jay Forsyth will act as corresponding secshyretary and Ed Stoughton will managethe house

Spring Quarter started off in greatstyle with a house party Alpha Psi thencombined with OTS and had a great time at Bridgeview Country Club

The speakers meeting for the past quarter included Dr R C Smith who spoke on the problems of setting upand running your own private practiceand Mr Joseph A Fodey Jr of CityNational Bank who spoke to the chapshyter about bankings relationship to theprofessional man

In the past two quarters the athleticteams of Alpha Psi have done well Boththe Freshmen and Sophomores broughthome trophies for their division titles Tuesday and Friday baseball squads arewarming up for title hopes after winshyning their league play despite the losses of Herb Betts with a broken foot and Brad Smith with a dislocated finshyger

Other spring events of Alpha Psi inshycluded the freshman welcome picnic onMay 15 1967 The sharp wit of Dr D0 Jones and the barbequed chicken were enjoyed by all The high point ofspring quarter was Senior Sendoff heldon May 26 1967 at the Hospitality Innat which the yearly awards were preshysented

ma Sigma Delta and Phi Zeta honorshyaries

Dr Ross will have a publication apshypearing in the Current VeterinaryTherapy 1967 (in press) entitled Dishyagnosis and Surgical Correction of Pashytent Ductus Arteriosus and Pulmonic Stenosis in the Dog On March 29th 1967 Dr Ross talked to the Northwesshytern OVMA on the subject Heart disease in small animal medicine He alshyso will talk on Diagnosis and SurgicalCorrection of the Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog at the National AVMA meeting in Dallas Texas in July of this year

Dr Ross is married He has a daughshyter Stephanie and his wife Marcia isexpecting a new arrival in June

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AVAAA FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Three members of the Junior Class

have been awarded AVMA grants for research in areas of veterinary medishycine Jon Bernstein is investigating speshycific renal and cardiovascular problemsHis sponsor Dr Robert Hamlin and the National Institute of Health are furnishing the necessary materials Usshying a radio-isotope technique Bernsteinwill be studying renal function of dogs in congestive heart failure He will deshytermine glomerular filtration rate renalblood flow and electrolyte excretion patterns before and after digitalization

Robert Stuhlman under the sponsorshyship of Dr Walter Loeb is using his horse His advisors are Dr Albert Gabel grant to develop a practical test which and Dr R B Heath Parameters monishyis diagnostic for the presence of hepa- tored will include arterial and venous

oxygen carbon dioxide and blood pH tocellular damage and its extent The respiratory rate and depth (pneumoshybasis of the test involves demonstrating graph) systolic and diastolic blood arginase activity with constant results pressures pulse rate and electrocardio-Roy Zinn will compare the effects of gram The ultimate goal of the project

succmylcholine alone and promazine is to evaluate the safety of intravenouswith succinylcholine on the cardiovascu- succinylcholine as an agent for casting lar and respiratory systems of the and restraint of the horse

QRowth bull gestationLactation

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Youre The DoctorBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

A female spayed basset hound IV2 years old was presented for rabies imshymunization with 5 ml of phenolized rashybies vaccine Five days later she was reshyturned in a semi-comatous condition The owner stated that her appetite waspoor ever since her vaccination On thisparticular morning she refused to rise and could not walk when forced to rise Thorough questioning eliminated the possible ingestion of any toxin

On physical examination the dog wasnon-responsive to stimuli Her anal sphincter was relaxed her pupils weremiotic and her temperature was 95deg The dog had a respiration rate of 40 perminute her heart rate was 30 per minshyute Hydration appeared normal but the dogs extremities were extremely cold Her urinary bladder was emptyand no urine could be obtained by cathshyeterization Peripheral lymph nodes were not enlarged nor were there any enlargements on abdominal palpation

The laboratory work done on the dogshowed that she had a PCV of 50 WBC of 7800 with 36 segs 7 non-segs 50 lymphs and 7 eos Her BUN was 147

mg100 ml creatinine was 6 mg100 ml Na was 131 meqL Cl was 96 meq L and K was 93 meqL Renal blood flow was 68 mlmin

The dog was given extensive treatshyment while hospitalized including perishytoneal dialysis She showed marked imshyprovement and so was sent home with medication seven days after admission Two days after dismissal the dog died

What is your diagnosis Doctor Answer on page 44

UPJOHN AWARDS Dale Duer was presented the Upjohn

Award for the most outstanding seniorin large animal medicine Dale is marshyried and is a member of the A V M A and Omega Tau Sigma Upon graduashytion Dale plans to enter large animal practice in Pennsylvania

Receiving the Upjohn Award for the most outstanding senior in small anishymal medicine was Guy Lockwood Guy is married and a member of the A V M A Omega Tau Sigma and Phi ZetaHe will be entering the U S Army Vetshyerinary Corps upon graduation

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Herd Health Management By JOHN C LEITE Vet Med IV PHILLIP A LINERODE DVM PhD

Herd Health Management is a totalapproach to large animal veterinarymedicine It combines into one programthe principles of preventive medicine and clinical medicine When properly apshyplied it could rejuvenate the Veterinarshyian-Farmer relationship

The herd health approach is based upon increasing a clients productivityinstead of running a salvage operationto keep him in business Ideally herd health management provides the means to secure optimum results from the entire herd The tools and techniquesused in herd health are principles ideasand experiments9 carefully and tactshyfully implemented

Since management is an integral part of the herd health approach it necessitates full cooperation of both the Veterinarian and the Farmer For this reason careful selection of clients for this approach is not only desirablebut absolutely essential Likewise the approach to secure cooperation is difshyferent for each farmer and is up to theingenuity of the Veterinarian The Farmer and the Veterinarian are not the only persons who should be inshyvolved in this approach to maximum production Often overlooked are lay people within the practice area who have special backgrounds information and talents that could help the proshygram The lay persons in this categoryare county extension agents vocationalagriculture teachers artificial insemshyination technicians local feed mill opshyerators and milking machine repair men The combined efforts of all these people can truly result in increased production and more profits for the farmer

It must be pointed out that the proshygram is long range and maximum beneshyfits cannot be gained in fewer than 5 or 6 generations in a herd Client confidence must be complete and full authority must be entrusted to the Veterinarian0 The type of operation is not important it may be dairy beef

SPRING 1967

swine sheep or equine the principles remain the same

The contractual arrangements beshytween client and practitioner vary withthe type of program and also the geoshygraphic area and its customs Some methods that have been used are13

1 charge on a straight call basis 2 charge by the hour 3 charge by the herd 4 charge for total herd work and

consultation to be done in a giventime (usually by the month or year)

5 charge a percentage of the inshycrease in net profit made by theuse of your service in herd health management

It would be a waste of time to inshyitiate a herd health program without the client being on some type of herd record keeping system For production Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) or Owner Sample (OS) recshyords could be kept with a preference for DHIA Information from producshytion records will aid greatly in detershymining individuals who are worthy of special attention When production records are combined with health recshyords they become invaluable in selectshying stock for the future Recently Morshyrow10 at Cornell University and Boyd Murray and Beck14 at Michigan State developed health records in the form of a folder with moveable colored tabs which indicate the breeding phase of each individual cow These systems however did not attempt to bring toshygether DHIA production records with health records and calf records Bishopand Linerode2 have developed a record keeping system which provides an allshyin-one record keeping system on an 8x10 inch manila folder A unique feashyture of this folder is color tabs to help the dairyman anticipate heat and to indicate the proper time to beginchallenge feeding This new system canbe used by the 1) Dairyman 2) Vetshy

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J racheopharyngitis can lay a horse low fast keep him out of action result in important economic losses to the owner You can return the animal to peak performance quickly with Dantafurreg Administration of Dantafur promptly reverses the course of tracheopharyngitis It relieves coughing and nasal discharge returns the animal to normal breathing

In urinary tract infections Dantafur places imporshytant antibacterial concentrations in the urine within 30 minutes after administration It is effective and practically specific for the infected urinary tract resulting in dramatic cures and animals clinically and bacteriologically free from infection1

DOSAGE Dantafur mdash Tracheopharyngitis (Race Track Cough) mdash for each 225 lbs body weight adshyminister perorally an initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 5 days Urinary Tract Infections mdash for each 225 lbs body weight administer perorally an

initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 7 days and for at least 3 days after urine is sterile SUPPLIED Dantafurmdashoral suspension veterinary Each cc contains 15 mg nitrofurantoin in special suspending medium containing 10 alcohol bottles of 473 cc and 1250 cc As with any potent antibacterial agent administer with caution in cases of marked impairment of renal function safe dosage may be less than usually recommended 1 Witter R S Third Regional Conference on Nitrourans in Veterinary Medicine Atlanta Georgia January 14 1960

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erinarian 3) A I Technician and 4) the Milk Tester This system will proshyvide a means for the dairyman to keepup with his record keeping

Once adequate records are availshyable the veterinarian is ready to tackle the herd health problems In many cases changes must be gradualbecause of the inherent characteristics and attitudes of the client Divisions can be made in order to work on vashyrious aspects of the program and not all aspects need to be carried out at once Five aspects have been adopted in the Herd Health Management Proshygrams in the Wooster Ohio area

1 Mastitis Control 2 Nutrition 3 Fertility and Reproduction 4 Calf Management and Vaccination 5 SanitationThese are discussed below

1 Mastitis Control Mastitis may be defined as an inshy

flammation of the mammary gland reshysulting from the interplay of various etiologic factors their environment andthe host in question From the definishytion it may be assumed that no one causative agent is responsible for masshytitis

Degrees or clinical types of mastitiscan be recognized severe - acute mild shyacute or chronic and subclinical

The severe type can be easily recogshynized and must be treated immediatelyOne recommended treatment would be the administration of Posterior Pituishytary Extract strip out the quarters and administer Liquimycin and sulfa IV with a repeat treatment in 24 hours

The mild and subclinical forms may go unrecognized and therefore some type of screening test should be pershyformed prior to the attachment of the milking machine The most common and easiest test to run is the strip plateor strip cup but some subclinical and even the mild cases may still go unshynoticed The following more elaborate tests may be used to detect these formsof mastitis

California Mastitis Test (CMT)12

Lye Mastitis Test (LMT)4

Michigan Mastitis Test (MMT)4

Liquimycinreg Charles Pfizer amp Co New York NY

SPRING 1967

Whiteside Test9

A Whiteside Test or a Wisconsin Mastitis Test (WMT)12 may be run on bulk tanks to pick up the presence of mastitis in the herd

Further laboratory tests can be conshyducted on sterily collected milk samshyples

Culturemdashstreaking on BAP to obshytain isolation and tentative identishyfication

Catalase Test12mdashbased on the presshyence of catalase contained in sershyum white blood cells epithelial cells colostrum and bacteria

Coagulase Testmdashused to determine Staphoylococcus pathogenicity

Mastitis caused by infestious organshyism can be attributed almost 100 to Streptococcus agalactiia and Staphyshylococcus It has been said that the greatest economic loss is due to Streptococcus agalactiia This organism is easily diagnosed by the use of the Hotis Test and with proper treatment can be eliminated in the cow All cows should be tested once a montih for three months During this period the cows should be arranged in a milking seshyquence according to the results of the test The animals producing a positive test are treated by intramammary inshyfusion of 400000 units of penicillin in18cc of sterile distilled water into each quarter One treatment is usually sufshyficient to eradicate the organism The tests are then conducted every three months for the remainder of he yearand if the herd is free of the organismthey are then conducted at 6 month inshytervals1 To back a positive Hotis Testa Camp Test is run in the laboratory to prove or rule out the presence of a partial hemolizing agent

If Staphylococcus is suspected or proven the only treatment which may prove to be satisfactory is systemic treatment because of the location and pathogenic nature of the organism

Needless to say any cow with masshytitis should be placed last in the milkshying line and extra special sanitary preshycautions taken with her and the equipshyment A cow that fails to respond to treatment or has an irreversible fibshyrotic udder should be culled

Infective agents are not the only etiology for mastitis and the practionshy

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er must maintain a keen eye to locate the other causes or possible causes and then have the condition corrected Othshyer etiologies may be improper milking injured teats and environmental 2 Nutrition

Good nutrition is an obvious and efshyfective tool for the progressive Veterishynarian to use in maintaining high proshyducers in a herd In general over half of the animal deaths are due to malnushytrition because inadequate nutrition will decrease the animals resistance to disshyease Nutrition is the cornerstone of success in herd health management and is often an overlooked factor in infertility It has been incriminated in fetal resorption and anestrus or failure to ovulate5

The basic approach would be to work out average requirements for the herd in digestible protein and Total Digestshyible Nutrients (TDN) A ration comshyposed of corn to supply TDN and soy bean oil meal to supply protein can fulfill the respective requirements and is economical Another rich source of protein is urea which can safely be used up to 3 of the ration It is availshyable in two forms 262 and 285 protein equivalents It is extremely cheap as compared to SBOM and the amount of protein derived from it A word of caution must be inserted here and that is to check with your local feed mill to see if they have the capashycity to mix urea into a ration Trace mineralized salt should be fed free choice

Forages and home grown grains should be tested periodically because it has been found that they may be below estimated textbook values3-5 depending on the type and condition of the growshying season

3 Fertility and Reproduction Fertility checks proper breeding and

a complete obstetrical program in the herd attempt to reach a goal of one calf per year from each cow As menshytioned before nutrition is a prime facshytor in fertility Once it is adequate a successful reproductive program can be launched

A cow should be palpated rectally 30 to 45 days after freshening to deshy

termine if uterine pathology is present or if the animal is ready to be bred on the next heat If pathology is present as indicated by an enlarged flaccid uterus that lacks tone the uterus should be infused with 4 million units of penicillin and 5 grams streptomycin combination mixed with 20cc of Utoshynex (2 mgm ethinyl estradiol and 20 mgm nitrofurathiazide) A cow that is bred on the heat after palpation would place the breeding date approximately 60 days after freshening The cow is then checked at 45-60 days after breedshying to determine if conception has ocshycurred and again prior to being dried off to detect any possible fetal resorpshytion or mummification5 The 45-60 day post breeding check is done to minimize lost time if conception did not occur on the initial breeding or if the fershytilized ova was lost and subsequent heat periods were missed

To aid the student and the clinician in palpating an approximate set of measurements of the whole bulge of the amniotic sac has been proposed

hens egg 40 days baseball 50 days softball 60 days volleyball 70 days basketball 80 days

Additional criteria can be used to apshyproximate the length of the pregnancy

35-60 days mdash slipping of the fetal membranes

85-90 days mdash fremitis of the midshydle uterine artery

110-120 days mdash presence of cotelyshydons

When following a regular program of rectal palpation abnormal conditions can be detected before they become irshyreversible Regular rectal palpation will clearly define the ovarian activity With this method of diagnosis expensive problem cows can be culled from the milk line or treated in an attempt to correct the difficulty In this program an accurate up to date set of records is essential

4 Calf Management and Vaccination This phase begins before the calf is

dropped The cow should be moved to a special maternity stall which is built to accommodate one cow very comfortshyably The calving stalls should be

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cleaned and disinfected between occushypants contain adequate clean bedding have good drainage be warm and have good ventilation The bedding should be changed periodically during the occupants tenure When the calf is dropped the umbilicus should be swabbed with a tincture of iodine and the fetal membranes removed before the cow can ingest them By performshying these simple tasks the new born has been given a much greater chance for survival When the time arrives for the calf to be separated from its mother it should be moved to an inshydividual calf stall When calves are pastthe stage of suckling one another theycan then be moved to clean well bedded and ventilated quarters which will acshycommodate several calves Nutrition is often overlooked in the calf crop in that they are usually fed the formushylated ration of the milking string A separate ration should be calculated forthe calves which is much higher in proshytein to accommodate fast growth The development of the calf during this period will have a direct influence onceshe enters the milk line Before reachshying the age of four months (120 days) calves are vaccinated for Brucellosis TB tested dehorned and have supershynumary teats removed If the owner so desires the calves may be vaccishynated for IBR and BVD at this time

The calf management program proshyvides a total health effort to improve the future milk string of the operashytion The program when followed dilishygently should provide for excellent calf survival with losses less than 1

5 Sanitation Sanitation should be the center of a

herd health program or the hub aroundwhich the other four aspects of the program revolve however it is often the most overlooked or neglected pracshytice in operations today It not only includes the premises but also theanimals and equipment

Junk and trash lying around the farm and especially around the barn and grain storage areas promote rats and mice Junk trash dirt cobwebs inside the barn present physical hazshyards to the animals This material is also a potential health hazard for it may provide the reservoir that disease

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needs in order to be propagated Improper drainage in the stall area

exercise lot and loafing shed promotethe accumulation of urine and feces and increase the possibility of animal foot problems and other health probshylems Manure is always a disposal probshylem but it must be cleaned daily fromthese areas and not allowd to accumushylate Bedding material must be changedfrequently if the animal urinates or dencates within the resting space Cowson which feces are allowed to accumushylate are health hazards to the herd and show a sign of poor management These cows should be washed and brushed to clean this material from their body

The housing and work areas must have adequate lighting so that the opshyerator and the Veterinarian may havemore ideal conditions in which to work More problem areas can be seen in a well lighted area than in a dark or dimly lit area Ventilation should be perfect so as to promote a healthy atshymosphere for the animals and lessen the possibility of money being lost due to respiratory diseases The principlesof admitting ample fresh air high andremoving the tainted air low will rid the area of moisture and foul ammonia fumes from urine

When designing the ventilation sysshytem it must be remembered that when admitting the fresh air the inlets mustbe planned so that there is one inlet of 60 sq in for every 3i2 - 1000 anishymal units The inlets can be placed at various places around the barn or stable area To eject the air a flue should beconsidered only if the distance from the highest point on the barn roof to the ground is 30 ft or more7 The flue size will be determined by the volume of the area to be evacuated It is imshyportant to place a door in the flue nearthe ceiling This door can be opened inthe summer months to aid in movingthe hot air which accumulates near the ceiling If the distance from the highshyest point on the barn roof to the groundis less than 30 ft a mechanical type system must be employed to evacuate the area The same principle applies in the mechanical systemmdashenter the fresh air high and exit the stale air low The number of mechanical units

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needed should be sufficient to provide a complete change of air six times every hour Sanitation also includes themilking parlor the equipment used and the technique employed in the acshytual milking The incidence of mastitis can increase when strict sanitary proshycedures are not adhered to The udder and especially the teats should be washed thoroughly with a mild soap and one of the iodine antiseptic prepshyarations This procedure not only stimushylates milk let down but reduces the possibility of spreading bacteria and contaminating the milk or other udshyders The inflation cups should be dipped into an iodine preparation inshysuring that the whole cup has been cleansed The cups then should be placed on the teat (after a strip plate test has been run) without allowingthem to touch the ground or other obshyjects such as bedding The wash waterand the water used to dip the teat cupsshould be changed at fifteen cow in-

This article is submitted due to interest shown by many and with the firm belief that Herd Health Management is the future of large anishymal practice The article was condensed from a paper prepared by Jack Leite for Dr Line-rode as part of the requirement for VeterinaryPreventive Medicine 740 Much of what is outshylined in this article comes from experience gained on field trips to Wooster Ohio area where herd health management programs are being conducted in five private dairy herds with the cooperation and participation of Drs Don Noah and Robert Mairs

1 A Syllabus on the Bovine Mammary Gland in Health amp Disease Department of Clinishycal Pathology School of Veterinary Medishycine University of California Davis Calishyfornia Schalm OW

2 Bishop J P amp Linerode PA Dairy Herd Health Management Record System Ohio State University 1967

3 Coppock CE amp Tyrell HE Feeding Recshyommendations for Lactating Cows Modern Veterinary Practice vol 48 1 January 1967

4 Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio

3 Drewry GH The Total Program Approachto Herd Health Management Modern Vetshyerinary Practice vol 48 2 February 1967

6 Guss Samuel B Milking Machines and Mastitis Modern Veterinary Practice vol 45 12 October 15 1964

7 Helwig John H Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinshyary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Personal Communication

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tervals throughout the milking proshycedure

The herd health management proshygram does not eliminate the emergencycalls The practitioner should be preshypared for them but the program shouldreduce the frequency of such calls andimproves the environment in which theVeterinarian must work Herd Health Management allows the farmer to proshyduce the greatest quantity of his proshyduct at the highest quality for the least cost A guideline in establishing a herd health program entitled Proshygramming Herd Health can be obshytained from Veterinary Practitioners Counseling Service VM Publishing Inc 144 N Nettleton Street Bonner Springs Kansas This aid to the pracshytitioner is available for Beef or Dairy operations at a nominal fee and may be a worth while investment for any one thinking of doing herd health work

8 Linerode Phillip A Department of Vetershyinary Preventative Medicine College of Vetshyerinary Medicine The Ohio State Universishyty Personal Communication

9 Modern Veterinary Practice vol 15 12 October 15 1964 p 8-62

10 Morrow DA Herd Health Records Corshynell University

11 Rice RE Trends in Large Animal Pracshytice Norden News vol 41 3 1966

12 US Department of Health Education and Welfare Screening Tests for Detection of Abnormal Milk 1965

13 Steere James H Modern Veterinary Pracshytice Reference and Data Service Large Anishymal 4 p A-8-8

14 Veterinary Clinic amp Dairy Dept Cooperashytive Extension Service Michigan State Unishyversity East Lansing Michigan

15 Woelffer EA Modern Veterinary Practice Reference and Data Service Large Animal 4 p A-8-19

YOURE THE DOCTOR (Continued)

Answer This dog had adrenal hyposhycortism or Addisons Disease The diagshynosis was confirmed by performing theThorn Test The preinjection samplecontained 1765 eoscu mm Two hoursafter the injection of ACTH the samshyple contained 1468 eoscu mm After four hours the sample contained 1815eoscu mm Necropsy confirmed thatthe dog had had adrenal hypocortisni

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Philip Johnson7580 Shawnee Run Rd Cincinnati Ohio656 Riverview Drive Columbus OhioLaboratory Animal

Medicine OSU AVMA

J Thomas LangRFD 1 Big Prairie OhioQuakertown Ani HospQuakertown PennsylvaniaDairy PracticeAVMA OTS

Donald R Kaeser 4871 Olentangy River RdColumbus Ohio121 Harvey AveDoylestown PaBuckingham Animal

HospitalBuckingham PennsylvaniaMixed mainly large

animal practiceAVMA OTS

Randy Kidd7629 Clark State Road Blacklick OhioMixed Practice AVMA OTS

President

Richard C Koritansky14032 GAR HighwayChardon Ohio 44024Abbotsford Veterinary

Clinic Ltd PO Box 96 Abbotsford British

Columbia CanadaLarge Animal PracticeAVMA Alpha Psi

corresponding secygtStudent Council

Dean Karl Kraus co Mr Charles OttoRoute 2 and 6 East Huron OhioTredyffrin Veterinary

Hospital1476 Lancaster Avenue Paoli Pennsylvania 19301Small Animal Practice AVMA class

rep resentati vetreasurer speakersbureau

Communications Chairman of Live Surgery Exhibit

Daniel E Lafontaine RR 1 Alvada Ohio Persidio of San Francisco San Francisco Calif US ArmyAVMA OTS

John C Leite 812 Clinton St Fremont 01877 Oakland Park Columbus OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Guy C Lockwood125 E Como Avenue Columbus Ohio Pentagon

Washington DC 20315Washington DCUS ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Small AnimalClinician Award

Lance O Lollini 430 Sinclair Street Yorkville OhioFt Bragg North CarolinaUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Phi

Phi Zeta

James C Lonz Route 3 Norwalk OhioYuma Test Station Yuma Arizona US ArmyAVMA OTS Phi

Zeta class treasStudent Council

E Clinton LowryForest Hill West Virginia360 E 65th St Apt 8GNew York NY 10021Small Animal Internship shy

Animal Medical Center AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Co-chairman Pre-Vet Day Clinic InternClass Treas

Bruce Marhefka Kensington OhioUniversity of Minnesota shy

College of Vet MedSmall Animal Surgery shy

Instructor AVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day listening booth

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MANOREWS 0 BAKTON K BERNARD P BINNIG J BISHOP P S L E S E J B O N H A M J BOOTH G BOWMAN G- BREZNOCK MBUTLER R DAILEY

L OILUZIO D DUERR J EHLER PFERGUSON PFRANK D FREITAS RFRITZ RGUREV1TZ 0 HARDY T HATP1ELD T HEADING

S 0 HELVOIGT W HENOMCKS RHENRY PJENNE OPRATT 8SAYLE J GROSS PJOHNSON 0 KAESER RKiOD RKORITANSKY

VtCE-PRSB PRESIDENT SKt shy TREAS

0 KRAUS 0 LAF0NTA1NE JT L A N G J LEITE

COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

G U3CKW000 L LOLLINI J LONZ C lOWfOT

BMARHEfKA CMCCONNELL MMCGANNON JMEHLING L MILEY RMYERS TOWEN DPAULO J PRATT J PURVI S M R A D C U F F E C R A F L O

WRANNELLS BREYNOLDS F BUTLEDQE GRSfKORA RSOLONER JWAGNER RWHJPPS WYAKLIY MYOUSHAK M ZARNETT J ZINES

Charles T McConnell 707 Main Street Toronto OhioLewis Animal HospitalCincinnati OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Phi Zeta

Exhibit Chairman Pre-Vet Day

Mel McGannon Box 143 Windsor OhioBoyds Animal HospitalGeneva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Clinic Intern

John A Mehling 118 N Wood Street Fremont OhioCollege of Veterinary

Medicine Cornell UniversityIthaca NY Dairy Practice shy

Ambulatory ClinicianAVMA

Larry Miley R i Eaton OhioFt Snelling after Nov

15 1967 Minneapolis MinnUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Pre Vet Day guide

Richard A Myersco Richard D Myers1271 Arbor Lane Marion OhioClover Park Veterinary

HospitalTacoma WashingtonSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Terry Owen4671 Venus Road Uniontown Rd 2 Ohio Letterman General HospSurgical amp Physiological

Research San Francisco Cal US ArmyAVMA OTS Pre-

Vet Day

F Daniel Paulo RD 1 Box 100 North Jackson OhioBeale AFB CaliforniaUSAF AVMA class

representative secretaryOTS Student Council

John Carl Pratt Rankins Creek Road South Point Ohio 45680South Point OhioMixed Mostly Large

Animal PracticeAVMA

Orben Pratt Jr Rt 1 St Paris Ohio 43072Ft McArthur Los Angeles CaliforniaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

intramural sports

James Purvis 525 KensingtonMiddletown Ohio 45042Lynch Animal Hospital3410 Tytus AveMiddletown OSmall Animal PracticeAVMA OTS

Intramural SportsStudent Council

Michael Radcliffe 2587 Mt Holyoke DriveColumbus Ohio 43221San Francisco Calif Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Charles P Raflo 6267 Elbrook Avenue Cincinnati Ohio 45237Aberdeen Proving Ground

MarylandUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Recording SecyChief Censor

William T Rannells RFD 1 New Plymouth Ohio

45654New Plymouth OhioMixed Practice AVMA

Bill B ReynoldsRt 3 Box 510Clarksburg W Va Reynolds Animal HospitalClarksburg W Va Mixed Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Student CouncilPresident Master of Ceremonies at AVMA Awards Banquet

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Florence Rutledge11815 Davis Court Lakewood Ohio 44107Gasow Veterinary Hospital1521 North Woodward

Ave Birmingham Michigan

48011 Small Animal Practice AVMA Chiron Editor

Sigma Gamma DeltaBorden Award Phi Zeta

William R SayleChagrin Falls Ohio 44042Amherst Animal HospitalAmherst Ohio 44001Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Intramurals PledgeMaster PresidentStudent Council

Speculum Chiron Gamma Award ClassPresident Merck Award

Richard Soldner 3322 Maize Rd Columbus OhioSpringfield Animal

Hospital36 Warder StreetSpringfield OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS PhiZeta Exhibit Chairman

Pre-Vet Day

George R SikoraHinckley OhioRichards amp Gebauer

AFBKansas City MoUSAF Base

Veterinarian AVMA Phi Zeta

Chiron SpeculumAlpha Psi Award

Joseph L Wagner6921 Salem Road Cincinnati Ohio 45030Laboratory Animal

FacilitySchool of Medicine shy

University of NorthCarolina

Chapel Hill NorthCarolina 27514

Laboratory AnimalMedicine - Graduate School

AVMA OTS PhiZeta AVMAFoundation ScholarshipMark Morris Research

Fellow Pre-Vet Day Speculum

Co-editor

Richard D Whipps1447 Thurell Rd Columbus OhioFort Lewis Spokane WashingtonUS ArmyAVMA Chiron

Business Mgr SpeakersBureau Chairman

William Lee Yakely1309 Cross Street Dover OhioWashington State

University - College ofVeterinary Medicine

Resident AVMA Co-Chairman

Publicity amp Picnic Committee ChairmanLive Surgery ExhibitTreasurer Vice-President OTSChairman Awards

AVMA Auxiliary AwardCommittee MarkMorris Research Fellow

Michael Youshak Huntsburg OhioVeterinary PathologyOhio State University1925 Coffey RoadColumbus OhioPost-Doctoral Graduate

ProgramAVMA President

OTS Phi Zeta PhizerAward Alpha PsiAlumni Award Speculum Chiron Pre-Doctoral FellowPublicity Co-ChairmanPre-Vet Day LiveSurgery ExhibitProgram ChairmanIntramurals

Martin Harold Zarnett 862 E 17th St Brooklyn New York 11230Aqueduct RacetrackSaratoga RacewayAiken amp Camden So Carolina Equine PracticeAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day Guide Asst LiveSurgery Exhibit

Jack B Zines MC 24 Salem OhioLarge Animal PracticeAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

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One of our salesmen made his first calls in this

Seems he started calling on veterinarians 40 years ago He didnt think about selling He thought about animals diseases how to cure them or prevent them Hed recomshymend this that or the other of his products that he thought would be most helpful And the veterinarians liked him Still do In fact nowadays hes calling on the sons of some of his original customers And his point of view is pretty much like that of the rest of our salesmen Their average length of service is 16 years When you stay with a company that long you dont exactly sell it Youre part of it

P I T M A N - M O O R E Division of The Dow Chemical Company Midland Michigan 48640

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PRE-VET DAY - 1967By E DAN WOLF Vet Med Ill

Informative educational professionshyally presentedmdashthese were a few of theevaluations expressed by the 510 pershysons who attended Pre-Vet Day 1967

Following registration tour groups of 25-30 people were formed and each group was led by two student guides through Sisson Hall Goss Pathology Laboratory and the Veterinary ClinicThe program consisted of informative speeches and a tour of the College Theofficial College welcome was extended byDr Walter Venzke This was followed by brief descriptions of the various fields of veterinary medicine Dr Roshybert Hamlin education and research Dr D 0 Jones public health Dr BruceWenger small animal practice Dr James Donham and Dr Clyde Purdy large animal practice Dean Krill then explained the academic and personal qualifications for admission to the colshylege

The tour of the college consisted of explanations and displays illustratingthe function of each department Thesewere prepared and presented by the stushydents and included Anatomy mdash Ron Bockbrader and Dave

HenryBacteriology mdash Jim Guenther Robert

Temple and Stan EichelbergerParasitology mdash Scott Anderson and

Dave Farris Physiology and Pharmacology mdash Frank

Pipers and Steve KurtzerPreventive Medicine mdash Tom Cummins

and Dick Smolen Library mdash Sharon Schumann and Ken

Clever

Pathology mdash Tom Burke Mike Wanskyand Bruce McCullough

Small Animal Medicine mdash Bill Sayle andTed Panhuis

Small Animal Surgery mdash Dick Soldner Ralph Urmson and Doug Cbatney

Large Animal Medicine mdash Harold Fershyguson Bill Reynolds and Fred Adams

Large Animal Surgery mdash Dale Duerr Dick Dailey and Dave McDonald

Ambulatory mdash James Booth Ames Alshylen and Gary Bowman

Clinical Pathology mdash Charles McConshynell Jack Zines and Bill Sternecker

Radiology mdash James Syler and Victoria Voith Some of the departmental programs

presented were Evaluation of Various Physiological Parameters Studies on Gnotobiotic Animals The Physical Exshyamination Basic Surgical Equipment Preparation and Common Surgical Sitshyuations Foaling Rumenotomy and GasAnesthesia Equipment

The majority of those attending Pre-Vet Day seemed to be quite interestedand awed by the varied knowledge andthe professional qualifications of the veterinarian

Lunch was served at both Sisson Hall and the Clinic by the Pre-Vet Club Much work was required and several problems had to be overcome to presentto the public the true picture of veterinshyary medicine (Not the least of these problems was presenting the professionshyal aspects of veterinary medicine in a garage) Everyone who worked so hard to present Pre-Vet Day 1967 deshyserves hearty congratulations

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REPORT ON SPEAKERS BUREAUBy RICHARD WHIPPS Vet Med IV This year the Speakers Bureau of

the AVMA Student Chapter has enshyjoyed its most successful year to date The Speakers Bureau was organizedthree years ago in an effort to inform the public of the broad scope of vetershyinary medicine Junior and senior vetshyerinary students have presented our profession to 4-H Clubs AgriculturalClubs and Survey Classes high schoolsand even to elementary school classesEach speaking engagement is usually handled by a team consisting of one senior and one junior with the senior student handling most of the speaking chores A stimulating question-and-anshyswer period follows almost every preshysentation

Student speakers participated in cashyreer-day programs in high schools throughout central Ohio including Coshylumbus Newark Lancaster and Censhyterburg Speakers presented mogtre specshyialized topics within the realm of vetshyerinary medicine to the Grove City Horsemasters 4-H Club the Wilmingshyton College Agricultural Club and Ag

AVMA NEWS By JUDY SAUERBREI Vet Med Ill This quarter as usual the student

chapter has been very active Pre-Vet Day (held Saturday April 15th) was a success with 510 people registering TheChiron the AVMA sponsored Colshylege of Veterinary Medicine yearbook has been mailed to the publishers and will be delivered to the student body byearly June The very active Speakers Bureau will continue to fulfill requestsfor guest speakers received throughoutthe summer New chairman of this comshymittee will be senior Tom Cummins Also this summer the Live Surgery exshyhibit which is presently at the Center of Science and Industry will be movedto Cincinnati for the Hamilton County Fair and then back to Columbus for The Ohio State Fair in August-Septemshyber

Members have enjoyed some very inshyteresting and informative programsthis quarter including a fine talk by ColScott Radcliff of the Ohio State Patrol

Survey classes and the Central Ohio Cocker Spaniel Club Topics for discusshysion included careers in veterinary medshyicine latest theories and developments in our profession various aspects ofveterinary preventive medicine and therole of the veterinarian in aerospace medicine The record for the longest distance traveled by student speakersthis year is held by the team who spoketo the Beta Beta Beta biological honorshyary of Marietta College

As chairman of the Speakers Bushyreau I would like to thank all the stushydents who served as speakers this yearEach person served his profession wellI am certain that the outreach of the Speakers Bureau will continue to grow as it presents the expanding field of veterinary medicine to the general pubshylic whose knowledge of our profession is in too many instances sadly lackingI would also like to express a specialthanks to Dr Donald Gisler of our facshyulty for giving his time and talents so that our presentations could be of the best possible quality

on Traffic Accidents and a large anishymal panel Members of this panel wereDr Albert Gabel of the OSU Veterinshyary Clinic Dr D G Miller SugarcreekDr Warren Amling London Dr Ed Kennedy Miamiville Dr Donald Moss-burger Bloomingburg Ohio

Other events for members of Student Chapter of AVMA included the Anshynual Awards Banquet on May 19th atthe Grandview Inn and the Spring Picshynic held on May 24th at Big Bear Farms

At the last meeting of the Student Chapter for Spring Quarter 1967 elecshytion of officers was held New officers for the academic year of 1967-68 will be President - Tom Hickey President-elect - Dick Hersman Vice President shyRalph Urmson Secretary - Sharon Schuman Treasurer - Bruce McCullocih These new officers have the great reshysponsibility of continuing to maintain the high standards of leadership exhibshyited by their predecessors

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Ohio State Fair Veterinary Medicine ExhibitBy DAVE ZIMMERMAN Vet Med Ill

For quite a few years the Ohio StateUniversity Student Chapter of the AVMA has presented an informative exhibit concerning veterinary medicineat the Ohio State Fair Last year this project took on a much wider scope Forthe first time live surgery was pershyformed in a modern portable surgical operating room Large pleriglass winshydows and closed circuit television enshyhanced the vantage point of the viewshying public

Again this summer the project will be presented at the Ohio State Fair Present plans call for two surgical proshycedures to be performed daily bylicensed and academy practicing veterishynarians representing their local acadeshymies with narration by students Talks

demonstrations and movies presentingthe complete and varied field of veterishynary medicine will round out the daily program

The purpose of the exhibit is to edushycate the public as to the wide rangeand high quality of service provided bythe modern veterinary clinic Althoughthis project is presented by the stushydents its aim is recognition of public and private practitioners through pubshylic exposure and education All demonshystrations will be presented in the proshyfessional and exacting way that modernveterinary medicine is practiced We feel certain that after a person has witshynessed the procedures presented he willbe much more aware of the ability posshysessed by his veterinarian

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Walking Distance of the Campus

OHIO STATER INNDirectly across the street

from from the Ohio State Campus

For Reservations WriteOhio Stater Inn

Mr Melvin Circle Manager2060 North High Street at East Woodruff

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Canine Research Projects SupportedBy The Columbus Collie Club

The Columbus Collie Club donated $3000 to the Ohio State University Vetshyerinary Medicine to be used in Canine research projects The grant was dishyvided among the following projectswhich will be conducted between June 1967 and June 1968 by seniors in the college

Richard Kight Tom Cummins Bob Smatt Dick Flinn L Joe Starcher

FULL THICKNESS BONE GRAPHS IN THE CANINE Seniors Tom Cumshymins Dick Flinn Gene Hofacre Bob Smatt Advisor Dr Richard Rudy

Full thickness bone graphs will be employed in the femur and radius of mature 25-40 pound beagle type dogsThe periosteum of the femur will be inshycised and elevated and the shaft transhysected proximally and distally and thenremoved The shaft will then be splitlongitudinally with care being taken to preserve the endosteum One-half will be discarded the other replaced in its former position The periosteum will beclosed Fixation will consist of an intrashymedullary pin and orthopedic wire Onthe anterior limb the radius will be exshyposed the periosteum split and eleshyvated A 25 cm piece of radius will then be removed Prior to this procedshyure an incision will have been made at the distal portion of the 7th rib and a

5 cm piece of rib removed with the periosteum intact This piece will be cut in half transversely The two secshytions side by side will be secured in theradial defect A Kirsthner splint andorthopedic wire will be used for fixation

The dogs will then be observed for eight weeks and the fracture sites willbe evaluated as to the strength and stashybility of the union

During the course of the study the dogs will be handled as much like acshytual clinical cases as possible Strict aseptic procedures will be carried out and the dogs will be adequately medishycated as would a clinical case

If shown to be successful the typeof graph described above may be utilshyized clinically in restoration of the conshytinuity of bones too severely fractured to be reduced by simpler and convenshytional techniques

QUANTITATIVE DETERMINAshyTION OF CORTICOSTEROIDS PROshyDUCED BY THE ADRENAL CORshyTEX Senior L Joe Starcher Advisshyors Dr Philip W Murdick Dr Edshyward F Donovan

From the results of this project it ishoped that the normal canine corticosshyteroid levels can be determined and a routine testing procedure established Itis possible that such a test would be asuseful as the blood test urinalysis andfecal examination when a complete exshyamination of a dog is done

A METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE RESIN-SPONGE TRIIODOTHROshyNINE UPTAKE TECHNIQUE IN DEshyTECTING THYROID FUNCTION OF THE DOG Senior Victoria L Voith Advisor Dr Walter Lobe

This experiment entails keeping twelve dogs-four in euthyroid four in hypothyroid and four in hyperthyroid states Blood samples will be drawn bishyweekly for three weeks and used to pershyform the resin-sponge triiodothyronine uptake test When radioactive iodine labeled triiodothyronine (T-3) is added

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to a serum sample it first saturates the It is unlikely although possible that unoccupied thyroid-binding sites on the practitioner will perform this tech-Thyroid Binding Protein (TBP) The nique himself but the blood sample remaining T-3 is taken up by the resin- could easily be sent to a laboratory sponge added to the sample The total equipped to perform such a test amount of T-3 is determined Then afshyter incubation the resin-sponge is CLINICAL EVALUATION OF RE-rinsed free of serum and with it the T-3 NAL F U N C T I O N Senior Dick bound to TBP The radioactivity re- Knight Advisor Dr Robert Candon maining in the resin-sponge is then de- The present clinical laboratory parashytermined The percent of radioactive meters for evaluation of renal function T-3 taken up by the resin-sponge is in- are incomplete and poorly understoodversely proportional to the unsaturated The dog that has renal impairment butsites on the TBG and directly propor- does not show frank clinical evidence of tional to the amount of endogenous thy- impairment is the animal that needs roxine and triiodothyronine circulating clinical outlines This animal is the one

The invitro technique used in this ex- that can be helped the most with earlyperiment has been shown to be an ac- therapy andor prophylactic regimes curate and safe method of assessing The purpose of the study is to define thyroid function in human beings The and evaluate clinical parameters for theexperiment is designed to determine the evaluations of glomerular filtration ratevalidity of this test in detection of the renal plasma flow tubular maximum canine thyroid function Since this tech- and sodium-potassium excretion in nique employs the use of serum and nephretic dogs Then if possible the de-does not expose the dog to radioactive velopment of a simple clinical test to iodine it has the possibilities of becom- accomplish these procedures will be atshying of diagnostic use to the practitioner tempted

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A new concept in controlling the bovine respiratory complex Stress plus respiratory viral agents act as the triggering mechanism for secondary bacterial infection in calves under range conditions during shipment and in the feedlot New Rea-Plex vaccine helps break the triggering pathogenic chain of this respiratory complex in stressed calves by controlling the two most common viral diseasesmdashParainfluenza-3 and IBR One 2 cc dose of Rea-Plex stimulates protection in susceptible cattle against both PI-3 and IBRmdashand offers the advantage of being a tissue culture origin desiccated modified live virus vaccine Safe potent and effective confirmed in field trials by bovine practitioners with no adverse reactions reported in cattle even under severe stress conditions Available 5 and 25 dose vials ^ mNew

INFECTIOUS BOVINE RHINOTRACHEITISmdashPARAINFLUENZA-3

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Fort Dodge Laboratories Fort Dodge Iowa

Another significant advancement in veterinary medicine from Fort Dodge

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NIH HEART GRANTBy FRANK PIPERS Vet Med Ill

Mutual interest on the part of a numshyber of research groups on campus conshyceived the idea of synthesizing capabilishyties and efforts with the end result beshying the formation and aquisition of an NIH grant entitled Biology of the Heart Participating in this endeavor are the Department of Veterinary Physhysiology College of Veterinary Medicineand the Departments of Physiology Medicine and Pathology College of Medicine

The two co-principal directors are Drs Smith and Warren There is a six man Steering Committee and approxishymately 20 to 25 professional efforts with an additional 15 to 20 man technical staff

The overall objective is to study allaspects of the normal and failing heartThe principle endeavors of this project will be

1) ultra microscopy of the failing heart

2) metabolism of the failing rat heart

3) bloodflow to visera and peripheral circulation

4) hemodynamics of the horse5) cardiac and renal function in dogs

with heart disease 6) ventricular and atrial activation

processes in cattle 7) uses of the computer in analyzing

electrocardiographic data of varshyious species

The nucleus of the microscopic workis at Starling Loving Hall where thereis an electron microscope The nucleus for macroscopic experimentation is at

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Sisson Hall where the installation of a $200000 facility has just been comshypleted The facility consists of

1) office space and a conference room2) two modern biochemistry laborashy

tories 3) One general research laboratory 4) a catheterization laboratory with

an adjoining dark room5) large animal laboratory with tilt-

table 6) a laboratory animal lab7) large walk-in refrigerator8) small animal holding quarters9) large animal holding quarters

10) mobile laboratory (which contains2 labs equipment area large anishymal holding stocks and a dark room)

The facilities encompass 6000 squarefeet and are located in the southern half of the basement of Sisson Hall

Although this is an interdisciplinary effort there are obvious advantages toour College

1) It will bring equipment and techshynology to our school

2) It will aid in training and teachshying of graduate veterinarians

3) We can glean information from research to apply to a clinical medium

4) We will have prestige from the success of the faculty

5) We should have the ability to atshytract high quality people to comeand study at our College

We are very proud of the developshyment of this facility and we wish it well

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Rightfullyreserved forveterinariansEVA meets the highest standards of professional practice in erysipelas prevention programs Sold only by Norden to veterinarians EVA is a live avirulent vaccine which is desiccated for high potency and stability Reconstitution is a precise professional procedure All too often the responsibility for swine herd health programs has been taken out of the hands of the veterinarian by the ready availability of certain biologicals in the drug feed or farm supply store

Such encouragement of risky do-it-yourself client competition is not a factor when you use EVA

rysipelas vaccine live culture avirulent) US Patent No 2980586 bull Canadian Patent No 608019

i IMCDREDEN LABORATORIES

OMEGA TAU SIGAAA NEWS By RONALD H BOCKBRADER

For all those non believers it can honshyestly be said that Spring has finally arshyrived in all its splendor despite severalfalse attempts to break loose from Winshyters tight grasp Needless to say the brothers of Omega Tau Sigma were eagerly awaiting Spring and met it with great enthusiasm

The first major item of business Spring quarter was the election of ofshyficers for the coming year Those elected were as follows

PresidentmdashDon Heagren Vice PresidentmdashAllen Bryant SecretarymdashRon Bockbrader TreasurermdashRich Hersman Assistant TreasurermdashTom Isaac

THE CHIRONBy DON SANDERS Vet Med Ill

This last year the Student Chapter ofthe AVMA voted to establish a yearshybook for the College of Veterinary Medshyicine The yearbook was named The Chiron The name refers to the centaur in Greek mythology who was renownedfor his skill in Medicine

The yearbook was launched by Florshyence Rutledge as editor Penalized byinexperience and a late start Miss Rutshyledge and the staff managed to meet the

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Sergeant-at-ArmsmdashJerry WolfParliamentarianmdashRalph Urmson ChaplainmdashRalph Broshes Rush ChairmanmdashJim Cobb Social ChairmenmdashJoe Starcher

Dave MacDonald Ron Conklin

House ManagermdashCharles Steinman The Brothers of Omega Tau Sigma

are sincere in thanking the retiring ofshyficers after an outstanding year and a job well done

After a fine intramural basketball season which netted a championship troshyphy OTS has again offered its chalshylenge in intramural events with severaltop softball teams

Socially Spring Quarter was again climaxed by the fabulous Senior Send-off and we say that modestly Of coursethe annual cocktail party at the house for Seniors only preceded the evening affair The party was held at Winding Hollow Country Club and exemplified the theme Regal Elegance A delishycious buffet dinner and drinks followed by dancing to Rick Monroes Quintet truly made Senior Sendoff the best everBrothers Grossi and Gurevitz chairshymen of the event can be commended for their efforts

As Spring Quarter draws to a close and the Seniors depart in pursuit of their goals we sincerely wish the best to them and hope that the Fraternityhas been and will continue to be a reshywarding and enjoyable experience for them

deadline for the publishers This yearshybook a true accomplishment for the editor and her staff will come off the press during the first part of June A few extra copies will be printed in case any alumni wish to purchase copies ($700)

Work has already begun on next years Chiron with Don Sanders as theincoming editor Anyone interested in a copy of the Chiron or interested in adshyvertising in next years issue pleasewrite to Don Sanders at the OSU Vetshyerinary Clinic 2578 Kenney Road Coshylumbus Ohio

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ALPHA PSI NEWS

ALPHA PSI By JAY FORSYTH Vet Med II

At the last meeting of the past quarshyter officers for the coming year were elected Jim Syler who did an outstandshying job as last years president was given the honor of serving another year Tom Burke was elected Vice Presshyident Tom Adams will serve as recordshying secretary Mike Snyder the new treasurer will be aided by Ron Montshygomery as assistant treasurer Dick

JIM ROSS (Continued from page 17)

University In the summer of 1966 he attended graduate school at Baylor Unishyversity College of Medicine Houston Texas

Dr Ross will receive his Master of Science degree in June of 1967 His thesis is entitled Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog Clinical and Physioshylogical Features

Beginning on July 1st 1967 Dr Rosswill be a member of the faculty at Bay-lor University College of Medicine with joint appointments in the departshyments of Physiology and Surgery

While an undergraduate student DrRoss became a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Omega Tau Sigma social frashyternities and of Phi Eta Sigma Gam-

Knight will serve as chief censor Jay Forsyth will act as corresponding secshyretary and Ed Stoughton will managethe house

Spring Quarter started off in greatstyle with a house party Alpha Psi thencombined with OTS and had a great time at Bridgeview Country Club

The speakers meeting for the past quarter included Dr R C Smith who spoke on the problems of setting upand running your own private practiceand Mr Joseph A Fodey Jr of CityNational Bank who spoke to the chapshyter about bankings relationship to theprofessional man

In the past two quarters the athleticteams of Alpha Psi have done well Boththe Freshmen and Sophomores broughthome trophies for their division titles Tuesday and Friday baseball squads arewarming up for title hopes after winshyning their league play despite the losses of Herb Betts with a broken foot and Brad Smith with a dislocated finshyger

Other spring events of Alpha Psi inshycluded the freshman welcome picnic onMay 15 1967 The sharp wit of Dr D0 Jones and the barbequed chicken were enjoyed by all The high point ofspring quarter was Senior Sendoff heldon May 26 1967 at the Hospitality Innat which the yearly awards were preshysented

ma Sigma Delta and Phi Zeta honorshyaries

Dr Ross will have a publication apshypearing in the Current VeterinaryTherapy 1967 (in press) entitled Dishyagnosis and Surgical Correction of Pashytent Ductus Arteriosus and Pulmonic Stenosis in the Dog On March 29th 1967 Dr Ross talked to the Northwesshytern OVMA on the subject Heart disease in small animal medicine He alshyso will talk on Diagnosis and SurgicalCorrection of the Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog at the National AVMA meeting in Dallas Texas in July of this year

Dr Ross is married He has a daughshyter Stephanie and his wife Marcia isexpecting a new arrival in June

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AVAAA FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Three members of the Junior Class

have been awarded AVMA grants for research in areas of veterinary medishycine Jon Bernstein is investigating speshycific renal and cardiovascular problemsHis sponsor Dr Robert Hamlin and the National Institute of Health are furnishing the necessary materials Usshying a radio-isotope technique Bernsteinwill be studying renal function of dogs in congestive heart failure He will deshytermine glomerular filtration rate renalblood flow and electrolyte excretion patterns before and after digitalization

Robert Stuhlman under the sponsorshyship of Dr Walter Loeb is using his horse His advisors are Dr Albert Gabel grant to develop a practical test which and Dr R B Heath Parameters monishyis diagnostic for the presence of hepa- tored will include arterial and venous

oxygen carbon dioxide and blood pH tocellular damage and its extent The respiratory rate and depth (pneumoshybasis of the test involves demonstrating graph) systolic and diastolic blood arginase activity with constant results pressures pulse rate and electrocardio-Roy Zinn will compare the effects of gram The ultimate goal of the project

succmylcholine alone and promazine is to evaluate the safety of intravenouswith succinylcholine on the cardiovascu- succinylcholine as an agent for casting lar and respiratory systems of the and restraint of the horse

QRowth bull gestationLactation

PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS DIVISION HILL PACKING CO TOPEKA KANSAS

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Youre The DoctorBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

A female spayed basset hound IV2 years old was presented for rabies imshymunization with 5 ml of phenolized rashybies vaccine Five days later she was reshyturned in a semi-comatous condition The owner stated that her appetite waspoor ever since her vaccination On thisparticular morning she refused to rise and could not walk when forced to rise Thorough questioning eliminated the possible ingestion of any toxin

On physical examination the dog wasnon-responsive to stimuli Her anal sphincter was relaxed her pupils weremiotic and her temperature was 95deg The dog had a respiration rate of 40 perminute her heart rate was 30 per minshyute Hydration appeared normal but the dogs extremities were extremely cold Her urinary bladder was emptyand no urine could be obtained by cathshyeterization Peripheral lymph nodes were not enlarged nor were there any enlargements on abdominal palpation

The laboratory work done on the dogshowed that she had a PCV of 50 WBC of 7800 with 36 segs 7 non-segs 50 lymphs and 7 eos Her BUN was 147

mg100 ml creatinine was 6 mg100 ml Na was 131 meqL Cl was 96 meq L and K was 93 meqL Renal blood flow was 68 mlmin

The dog was given extensive treatshyment while hospitalized including perishytoneal dialysis She showed marked imshyprovement and so was sent home with medication seven days after admission Two days after dismissal the dog died

What is your diagnosis Doctor Answer on page 44

UPJOHN AWARDS Dale Duer was presented the Upjohn

Award for the most outstanding seniorin large animal medicine Dale is marshyried and is a member of the A V M A and Omega Tau Sigma Upon graduashytion Dale plans to enter large animal practice in Pennsylvania

Receiving the Upjohn Award for the most outstanding senior in small anishymal medicine was Guy Lockwood Guy is married and a member of the A V M A Omega Tau Sigma and Phi ZetaHe will be entering the U S Army Vetshyerinary Corps upon graduation

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Herd Health Management By JOHN C LEITE Vet Med IV PHILLIP A LINERODE DVM PhD

Herd Health Management is a totalapproach to large animal veterinarymedicine It combines into one programthe principles of preventive medicine and clinical medicine When properly apshyplied it could rejuvenate the Veterinarshyian-Farmer relationship

The herd health approach is based upon increasing a clients productivityinstead of running a salvage operationto keep him in business Ideally herd health management provides the means to secure optimum results from the entire herd The tools and techniquesused in herd health are principles ideasand experiments9 carefully and tactshyfully implemented

Since management is an integral part of the herd health approach it necessitates full cooperation of both the Veterinarian and the Farmer For this reason careful selection of clients for this approach is not only desirablebut absolutely essential Likewise the approach to secure cooperation is difshyferent for each farmer and is up to theingenuity of the Veterinarian The Farmer and the Veterinarian are not the only persons who should be inshyvolved in this approach to maximum production Often overlooked are lay people within the practice area who have special backgrounds information and talents that could help the proshygram The lay persons in this categoryare county extension agents vocationalagriculture teachers artificial insemshyination technicians local feed mill opshyerators and milking machine repair men The combined efforts of all these people can truly result in increased production and more profits for the farmer

It must be pointed out that the proshygram is long range and maximum beneshyfits cannot be gained in fewer than 5 or 6 generations in a herd Client confidence must be complete and full authority must be entrusted to the Veterinarian0 The type of operation is not important it may be dairy beef

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swine sheep or equine the principles remain the same

The contractual arrangements beshytween client and practitioner vary withthe type of program and also the geoshygraphic area and its customs Some methods that have been used are13

1 charge on a straight call basis 2 charge by the hour 3 charge by the herd 4 charge for total herd work and

consultation to be done in a giventime (usually by the month or year)

5 charge a percentage of the inshycrease in net profit made by theuse of your service in herd health management

It would be a waste of time to inshyitiate a herd health program without the client being on some type of herd record keeping system For production Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) or Owner Sample (OS) recshyords could be kept with a preference for DHIA Information from producshytion records will aid greatly in detershymining individuals who are worthy of special attention When production records are combined with health recshyords they become invaluable in selectshying stock for the future Recently Morshyrow10 at Cornell University and Boyd Murray and Beck14 at Michigan State developed health records in the form of a folder with moveable colored tabs which indicate the breeding phase of each individual cow These systems however did not attempt to bring toshygether DHIA production records with health records and calf records Bishopand Linerode2 have developed a record keeping system which provides an allshyin-one record keeping system on an 8x10 inch manila folder A unique feashyture of this folder is color tabs to help the dairyman anticipate heat and to indicate the proper time to beginchallenge feeding This new system canbe used by the 1) Dairyman 2) Vetshy

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back inthe winners

circlewith

DANTAFUR(brand of nitrofurantoin)

J racheopharyngitis can lay a horse low fast keep him out of action result in important economic losses to the owner You can return the animal to peak performance quickly with Dantafurreg Administration of Dantafur promptly reverses the course of tracheopharyngitis It relieves coughing and nasal discharge returns the animal to normal breathing

In urinary tract infections Dantafur places imporshytant antibacterial concentrations in the urine within 30 minutes after administration It is effective and practically specific for the infected urinary tract resulting in dramatic cures and animals clinically and bacteriologically free from infection1

DOSAGE Dantafur mdash Tracheopharyngitis (Race Track Cough) mdash for each 225 lbs body weight adshyminister perorally an initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 5 days Urinary Tract Infections mdash for each 225 lbs body weight administer perorally an

initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 7 days and for at least 3 days after urine is sterile SUPPLIED Dantafurmdashoral suspension veterinary Each cc contains 15 mg nitrofurantoin in special suspending medium containing 10 alcohol bottles of 473 cc and 1250 cc As with any potent antibacterial agent administer with caution in cases of marked impairment of renal function safe dosage may be less than usually recommended 1 Witter R S Third Regional Conference on Nitrourans in Veterinary Medicine Atlanta Georgia January 14 1960

Available through your professional veterinary distributor

bdquo J ~ j L Nitrofurans-a unique class ol antimicrobialsorigpnated and developed by

JF^ EATON LABORATORIES laquoato^raquo Division of The Norwich Pharmacal Company ^ NORWICH NEW YORK

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erinarian 3) A I Technician and 4) the Milk Tester This system will proshyvide a means for the dairyman to keepup with his record keeping

Once adequate records are availshyable the veterinarian is ready to tackle the herd health problems In many cases changes must be gradualbecause of the inherent characteristics and attitudes of the client Divisions can be made in order to work on vashyrious aspects of the program and not all aspects need to be carried out at once Five aspects have been adopted in the Herd Health Management Proshygrams in the Wooster Ohio area

1 Mastitis Control 2 Nutrition 3 Fertility and Reproduction 4 Calf Management and Vaccination 5 SanitationThese are discussed below

1 Mastitis Control Mastitis may be defined as an inshy

flammation of the mammary gland reshysulting from the interplay of various etiologic factors their environment andthe host in question From the definishytion it may be assumed that no one causative agent is responsible for masshytitis

Degrees or clinical types of mastitiscan be recognized severe - acute mild shyacute or chronic and subclinical

The severe type can be easily recogshynized and must be treated immediatelyOne recommended treatment would be the administration of Posterior Pituishytary Extract strip out the quarters and administer Liquimycin and sulfa IV with a repeat treatment in 24 hours

The mild and subclinical forms may go unrecognized and therefore some type of screening test should be pershyformed prior to the attachment of the milking machine The most common and easiest test to run is the strip plateor strip cup but some subclinical and even the mild cases may still go unshynoticed The following more elaborate tests may be used to detect these formsof mastitis

California Mastitis Test (CMT)12

Lye Mastitis Test (LMT)4

Michigan Mastitis Test (MMT)4

Liquimycinreg Charles Pfizer amp Co New York NY

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Whiteside Test9

A Whiteside Test or a Wisconsin Mastitis Test (WMT)12 may be run on bulk tanks to pick up the presence of mastitis in the herd

Further laboratory tests can be conshyducted on sterily collected milk samshyples

Culturemdashstreaking on BAP to obshytain isolation and tentative identishyfication

Catalase Test12mdashbased on the presshyence of catalase contained in sershyum white blood cells epithelial cells colostrum and bacteria

Coagulase Testmdashused to determine Staphoylococcus pathogenicity

Mastitis caused by infestious organshyism can be attributed almost 100 to Streptococcus agalactiia and Staphyshylococcus It has been said that the greatest economic loss is due to Streptococcus agalactiia This organism is easily diagnosed by the use of the Hotis Test and with proper treatment can be eliminated in the cow All cows should be tested once a montih for three months During this period the cows should be arranged in a milking seshyquence according to the results of the test The animals producing a positive test are treated by intramammary inshyfusion of 400000 units of penicillin in18cc of sterile distilled water into each quarter One treatment is usually sufshyficient to eradicate the organism The tests are then conducted every three months for the remainder of he yearand if the herd is free of the organismthey are then conducted at 6 month inshytervals1 To back a positive Hotis Testa Camp Test is run in the laboratory to prove or rule out the presence of a partial hemolizing agent

If Staphylococcus is suspected or proven the only treatment which may prove to be satisfactory is systemic treatment because of the location and pathogenic nature of the organism

Needless to say any cow with masshytitis should be placed last in the milkshying line and extra special sanitary preshycautions taken with her and the equipshyment A cow that fails to respond to treatment or has an irreversible fibshyrotic udder should be culled

Infective agents are not the only etiology for mastitis and the practionshy

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er must maintain a keen eye to locate the other causes or possible causes and then have the condition corrected Othshyer etiologies may be improper milking injured teats and environmental 2 Nutrition

Good nutrition is an obvious and efshyfective tool for the progressive Veterishynarian to use in maintaining high proshyducers in a herd In general over half of the animal deaths are due to malnushytrition because inadequate nutrition will decrease the animals resistance to disshyease Nutrition is the cornerstone of success in herd health management and is often an overlooked factor in infertility It has been incriminated in fetal resorption and anestrus or failure to ovulate5

The basic approach would be to work out average requirements for the herd in digestible protein and Total Digestshyible Nutrients (TDN) A ration comshyposed of corn to supply TDN and soy bean oil meal to supply protein can fulfill the respective requirements and is economical Another rich source of protein is urea which can safely be used up to 3 of the ration It is availshyable in two forms 262 and 285 protein equivalents It is extremely cheap as compared to SBOM and the amount of protein derived from it A word of caution must be inserted here and that is to check with your local feed mill to see if they have the capashycity to mix urea into a ration Trace mineralized salt should be fed free choice

Forages and home grown grains should be tested periodically because it has been found that they may be below estimated textbook values3-5 depending on the type and condition of the growshying season

3 Fertility and Reproduction Fertility checks proper breeding and

a complete obstetrical program in the herd attempt to reach a goal of one calf per year from each cow As menshytioned before nutrition is a prime facshytor in fertility Once it is adequate a successful reproductive program can be launched

A cow should be palpated rectally 30 to 45 days after freshening to deshy

termine if uterine pathology is present or if the animal is ready to be bred on the next heat If pathology is present as indicated by an enlarged flaccid uterus that lacks tone the uterus should be infused with 4 million units of penicillin and 5 grams streptomycin combination mixed with 20cc of Utoshynex (2 mgm ethinyl estradiol and 20 mgm nitrofurathiazide) A cow that is bred on the heat after palpation would place the breeding date approximately 60 days after freshening The cow is then checked at 45-60 days after breedshying to determine if conception has ocshycurred and again prior to being dried off to detect any possible fetal resorpshytion or mummification5 The 45-60 day post breeding check is done to minimize lost time if conception did not occur on the initial breeding or if the fershytilized ova was lost and subsequent heat periods were missed

To aid the student and the clinician in palpating an approximate set of measurements of the whole bulge of the amniotic sac has been proposed

hens egg 40 days baseball 50 days softball 60 days volleyball 70 days basketball 80 days

Additional criteria can be used to apshyproximate the length of the pregnancy

35-60 days mdash slipping of the fetal membranes

85-90 days mdash fremitis of the midshydle uterine artery

110-120 days mdash presence of cotelyshydons

When following a regular program of rectal palpation abnormal conditions can be detected before they become irshyreversible Regular rectal palpation will clearly define the ovarian activity With this method of diagnosis expensive problem cows can be culled from the milk line or treated in an attempt to correct the difficulty In this program an accurate up to date set of records is essential

4 Calf Management and Vaccination This phase begins before the calf is

dropped The cow should be moved to a special maternity stall which is built to accommodate one cow very comfortshyably The calving stalls should be

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cleaned and disinfected between occushypants contain adequate clean bedding have good drainage be warm and have good ventilation The bedding should be changed periodically during the occupants tenure When the calf is dropped the umbilicus should be swabbed with a tincture of iodine and the fetal membranes removed before the cow can ingest them By performshying these simple tasks the new born has been given a much greater chance for survival When the time arrives for the calf to be separated from its mother it should be moved to an inshydividual calf stall When calves are pastthe stage of suckling one another theycan then be moved to clean well bedded and ventilated quarters which will acshycommodate several calves Nutrition is often overlooked in the calf crop in that they are usually fed the formushylated ration of the milking string A separate ration should be calculated forthe calves which is much higher in proshytein to accommodate fast growth The development of the calf during this period will have a direct influence onceshe enters the milk line Before reachshying the age of four months (120 days) calves are vaccinated for Brucellosis TB tested dehorned and have supershynumary teats removed If the owner so desires the calves may be vaccishynated for IBR and BVD at this time

The calf management program proshyvides a total health effort to improve the future milk string of the operashytion The program when followed dilishygently should provide for excellent calf survival with losses less than 1

5 Sanitation Sanitation should be the center of a

herd health program or the hub aroundwhich the other four aspects of the program revolve however it is often the most overlooked or neglected pracshytice in operations today It not only includes the premises but also theanimals and equipment

Junk and trash lying around the farm and especially around the barn and grain storage areas promote rats and mice Junk trash dirt cobwebs inside the barn present physical hazshyards to the animals This material is also a potential health hazard for it may provide the reservoir that disease

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needs in order to be propagated Improper drainage in the stall area

exercise lot and loafing shed promotethe accumulation of urine and feces and increase the possibility of animal foot problems and other health probshylems Manure is always a disposal probshylem but it must be cleaned daily fromthese areas and not allowd to accumushylate Bedding material must be changedfrequently if the animal urinates or dencates within the resting space Cowson which feces are allowed to accumushylate are health hazards to the herd and show a sign of poor management These cows should be washed and brushed to clean this material from their body

The housing and work areas must have adequate lighting so that the opshyerator and the Veterinarian may havemore ideal conditions in which to work More problem areas can be seen in a well lighted area than in a dark or dimly lit area Ventilation should be perfect so as to promote a healthy atshymosphere for the animals and lessen the possibility of money being lost due to respiratory diseases The principlesof admitting ample fresh air high andremoving the tainted air low will rid the area of moisture and foul ammonia fumes from urine

When designing the ventilation sysshytem it must be remembered that when admitting the fresh air the inlets mustbe planned so that there is one inlet of 60 sq in for every 3i2 - 1000 anishymal units The inlets can be placed at various places around the barn or stable area To eject the air a flue should beconsidered only if the distance from the highest point on the barn roof to the ground is 30 ft or more7 The flue size will be determined by the volume of the area to be evacuated It is imshyportant to place a door in the flue nearthe ceiling This door can be opened inthe summer months to aid in movingthe hot air which accumulates near the ceiling If the distance from the highshyest point on the barn roof to the groundis less than 30 ft a mechanical type system must be employed to evacuate the area The same principle applies in the mechanical systemmdashenter the fresh air high and exit the stale air low The number of mechanical units

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needed should be sufficient to provide a complete change of air six times every hour Sanitation also includes themilking parlor the equipment used and the technique employed in the acshytual milking The incidence of mastitis can increase when strict sanitary proshycedures are not adhered to The udder and especially the teats should be washed thoroughly with a mild soap and one of the iodine antiseptic prepshyarations This procedure not only stimushylates milk let down but reduces the possibility of spreading bacteria and contaminating the milk or other udshyders The inflation cups should be dipped into an iodine preparation inshysuring that the whole cup has been cleansed The cups then should be placed on the teat (after a strip plate test has been run) without allowingthem to touch the ground or other obshyjects such as bedding The wash waterand the water used to dip the teat cupsshould be changed at fifteen cow in-

This article is submitted due to interest shown by many and with the firm belief that Herd Health Management is the future of large anishymal practice The article was condensed from a paper prepared by Jack Leite for Dr Line-rode as part of the requirement for VeterinaryPreventive Medicine 740 Much of what is outshylined in this article comes from experience gained on field trips to Wooster Ohio area where herd health management programs are being conducted in five private dairy herds with the cooperation and participation of Drs Don Noah and Robert Mairs

1 A Syllabus on the Bovine Mammary Gland in Health amp Disease Department of Clinishycal Pathology School of Veterinary Medishycine University of California Davis Calishyfornia Schalm OW

2 Bishop J P amp Linerode PA Dairy Herd Health Management Record System Ohio State University 1967

3 Coppock CE amp Tyrell HE Feeding Recshyommendations for Lactating Cows Modern Veterinary Practice vol 48 1 January 1967

4 Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio

3 Drewry GH The Total Program Approachto Herd Health Management Modern Vetshyerinary Practice vol 48 2 February 1967

6 Guss Samuel B Milking Machines and Mastitis Modern Veterinary Practice vol 45 12 October 15 1964

7 Helwig John H Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinshyary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Personal Communication

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tervals throughout the milking proshycedure

The herd health management proshygram does not eliminate the emergencycalls The practitioner should be preshypared for them but the program shouldreduce the frequency of such calls andimproves the environment in which theVeterinarian must work Herd Health Management allows the farmer to proshyduce the greatest quantity of his proshyduct at the highest quality for the least cost A guideline in establishing a herd health program entitled Proshygramming Herd Health can be obshytained from Veterinary Practitioners Counseling Service VM Publishing Inc 144 N Nettleton Street Bonner Springs Kansas This aid to the pracshytitioner is available for Beef or Dairy operations at a nominal fee and may be a worth while investment for any one thinking of doing herd health work

8 Linerode Phillip A Department of Vetershyinary Preventative Medicine College of Vetshyerinary Medicine The Ohio State Universishyty Personal Communication

9 Modern Veterinary Practice vol 15 12 October 15 1964 p 8-62

10 Morrow DA Herd Health Records Corshynell University

11 Rice RE Trends in Large Animal Pracshytice Norden News vol 41 3 1966

12 US Department of Health Education and Welfare Screening Tests for Detection of Abnormal Milk 1965

13 Steere James H Modern Veterinary Pracshytice Reference and Data Service Large Anishymal 4 p A-8-8

14 Veterinary Clinic amp Dairy Dept Cooperashytive Extension Service Michigan State Unishyversity East Lansing Michigan

15 Woelffer EA Modern Veterinary Practice Reference and Data Service Large Animal 4 p A-8-19

YOURE THE DOCTOR (Continued)

Answer This dog had adrenal hyposhycortism or Addisons Disease The diagshynosis was confirmed by performing theThorn Test The preinjection samplecontained 1765 eoscu mm Two hoursafter the injection of ACTH the samshyple contained 1468 eoscu mm After four hours the sample contained 1815eoscu mm Necropsy confirmed thatthe dog had had adrenal hypocortisni

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MANOREWS 0 BAKTON K BERNARD P BINNIG J BISHOP P S L E S E J B O N H A M J BOOTH G BOWMAN G- BREZNOCK MBUTLER R DAILEY

L OILUZIO D DUERR J EHLER PFERGUSON PFRANK D FREITAS RFRITZ RGUREV1TZ 0 HARDY T HATP1ELD T HEADING

S 0 HELVOIGT W HENOMCKS RHENRY PJENNE OPRATT 8SAYLE J GROSS PJOHNSON 0 KAESER RKiOD RKORITANSKY

VtCE-PRSB PRESIDENT SKt shy TREAS

0 KRAUS 0 LAF0NTA1NE JT L A N G J LEITE

COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

G U3CKW000 L LOLLINI J LONZ C lOWfOT

BMARHEfKA CMCCONNELL MMCGANNON JMEHLING L MILEY RMYERS TOWEN DPAULO J PRATT J PURVI S M R A D C U F F E C R A F L O

WRANNELLS BREYNOLDS F BUTLEDQE GRSfKORA RSOLONER JWAGNER RWHJPPS WYAKLIY MYOUSHAK M ZARNETT J ZINES

Charles T McConnell 707 Main Street Toronto OhioLewis Animal HospitalCincinnati OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Phi Zeta

Exhibit Chairman Pre-Vet Day

Mel McGannon Box 143 Windsor OhioBoyds Animal HospitalGeneva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Clinic Intern

John A Mehling 118 N Wood Street Fremont OhioCollege of Veterinary

Medicine Cornell UniversityIthaca NY Dairy Practice shy

Ambulatory ClinicianAVMA

Larry Miley R i Eaton OhioFt Snelling after Nov

15 1967 Minneapolis MinnUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Pre Vet Day guide

Richard A Myersco Richard D Myers1271 Arbor Lane Marion OhioClover Park Veterinary

HospitalTacoma WashingtonSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Terry Owen4671 Venus Road Uniontown Rd 2 Ohio Letterman General HospSurgical amp Physiological

Research San Francisco Cal US ArmyAVMA OTS Pre-

Vet Day

F Daniel Paulo RD 1 Box 100 North Jackson OhioBeale AFB CaliforniaUSAF AVMA class

representative secretaryOTS Student Council

John Carl Pratt Rankins Creek Road South Point Ohio 45680South Point OhioMixed Mostly Large

Animal PracticeAVMA

Orben Pratt Jr Rt 1 St Paris Ohio 43072Ft McArthur Los Angeles CaliforniaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

intramural sports

James Purvis 525 KensingtonMiddletown Ohio 45042Lynch Animal Hospital3410 Tytus AveMiddletown OSmall Animal PracticeAVMA OTS

Intramural SportsStudent Council

Michael Radcliffe 2587 Mt Holyoke DriveColumbus Ohio 43221San Francisco Calif Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Charles P Raflo 6267 Elbrook Avenue Cincinnati Ohio 45237Aberdeen Proving Ground

MarylandUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Recording SecyChief Censor

William T Rannells RFD 1 New Plymouth Ohio

45654New Plymouth OhioMixed Practice AVMA

Bill B ReynoldsRt 3 Box 510Clarksburg W Va Reynolds Animal HospitalClarksburg W Va Mixed Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Student CouncilPresident Master of Ceremonies at AVMA Awards Banquet

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Florence Rutledge11815 Davis Court Lakewood Ohio 44107Gasow Veterinary Hospital1521 North Woodward

Ave Birmingham Michigan

48011 Small Animal Practice AVMA Chiron Editor

Sigma Gamma DeltaBorden Award Phi Zeta

William R SayleChagrin Falls Ohio 44042Amherst Animal HospitalAmherst Ohio 44001Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Intramurals PledgeMaster PresidentStudent Council

Speculum Chiron Gamma Award ClassPresident Merck Award

Richard Soldner 3322 Maize Rd Columbus OhioSpringfield Animal

Hospital36 Warder StreetSpringfield OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS PhiZeta Exhibit Chairman

Pre-Vet Day

George R SikoraHinckley OhioRichards amp Gebauer

AFBKansas City MoUSAF Base

Veterinarian AVMA Phi Zeta

Chiron SpeculumAlpha Psi Award

Joseph L Wagner6921 Salem Road Cincinnati Ohio 45030Laboratory Animal

FacilitySchool of Medicine shy

University of NorthCarolina

Chapel Hill NorthCarolina 27514

Laboratory AnimalMedicine - Graduate School

AVMA OTS PhiZeta AVMAFoundation ScholarshipMark Morris Research

Fellow Pre-Vet Day Speculum

Co-editor

Richard D Whipps1447 Thurell Rd Columbus OhioFort Lewis Spokane WashingtonUS ArmyAVMA Chiron

Business Mgr SpeakersBureau Chairman

William Lee Yakely1309 Cross Street Dover OhioWashington State

University - College ofVeterinary Medicine

Resident AVMA Co-Chairman

Publicity amp Picnic Committee ChairmanLive Surgery ExhibitTreasurer Vice-President OTSChairman Awards

AVMA Auxiliary AwardCommittee MarkMorris Research Fellow

Michael Youshak Huntsburg OhioVeterinary PathologyOhio State University1925 Coffey RoadColumbus OhioPost-Doctoral Graduate

ProgramAVMA President

OTS Phi Zeta PhizerAward Alpha PsiAlumni Award Speculum Chiron Pre-Doctoral FellowPublicity Co-ChairmanPre-Vet Day LiveSurgery ExhibitProgram ChairmanIntramurals

Martin Harold Zarnett 862 E 17th St Brooklyn New York 11230Aqueduct RacetrackSaratoga RacewayAiken amp Camden So Carolina Equine PracticeAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day Guide Asst LiveSurgery Exhibit

Jack B Zines MC 24 Salem OhioLarge Animal PracticeAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

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One of our salesmen made his first calls in this

Seems he started calling on veterinarians 40 years ago He didnt think about selling He thought about animals diseases how to cure them or prevent them Hed recomshymend this that or the other of his products that he thought would be most helpful And the veterinarians liked him Still do In fact nowadays hes calling on the sons of some of his original customers And his point of view is pretty much like that of the rest of our salesmen Their average length of service is 16 years When you stay with a company that long you dont exactly sell it Youre part of it

P I T M A N - M O O R E Division of The Dow Chemical Company Midland Michigan 48640

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PRE-VET DAY - 1967By E DAN WOLF Vet Med Ill

Informative educational professionshyally presentedmdashthese were a few of theevaluations expressed by the 510 pershysons who attended Pre-Vet Day 1967

Following registration tour groups of 25-30 people were formed and each group was led by two student guides through Sisson Hall Goss Pathology Laboratory and the Veterinary ClinicThe program consisted of informative speeches and a tour of the College Theofficial College welcome was extended byDr Walter Venzke This was followed by brief descriptions of the various fields of veterinary medicine Dr Roshybert Hamlin education and research Dr D 0 Jones public health Dr BruceWenger small animal practice Dr James Donham and Dr Clyde Purdy large animal practice Dean Krill then explained the academic and personal qualifications for admission to the colshylege

The tour of the college consisted of explanations and displays illustratingthe function of each department Thesewere prepared and presented by the stushydents and included Anatomy mdash Ron Bockbrader and Dave

HenryBacteriology mdash Jim Guenther Robert

Temple and Stan EichelbergerParasitology mdash Scott Anderson and

Dave Farris Physiology and Pharmacology mdash Frank

Pipers and Steve KurtzerPreventive Medicine mdash Tom Cummins

and Dick Smolen Library mdash Sharon Schumann and Ken

Clever

Pathology mdash Tom Burke Mike Wanskyand Bruce McCullough

Small Animal Medicine mdash Bill Sayle andTed Panhuis

Small Animal Surgery mdash Dick Soldner Ralph Urmson and Doug Cbatney

Large Animal Medicine mdash Harold Fershyguson Bill Reynolds and Fred Adams

Large Animal Surgery mdash Dale Duerr Dick Dailey and Dave McDonald

Ambulatory mdash James Booth Ames Alshylen and Gary Bowman

Clinical Pathology mdash Charles McConshynell Jack Zines and Bill Sternecker

Radiology mdash James Syler and Victoria Voith Some of the departmental programs

presented were Evaluation of Various Physiological Parameters Studies on Gnotobiotic Animals The Physical Exshyamination Basic Surgical Equipment Preparation and Common Surgical Sitshyuations Foaling Rumenotomy and GasAnesthesia Equipment

The majority of those attending Pre-Vet Day seemed to be quite interestedand awed by the varied knowledge andthe professional qualifications of the veterinarian

Lunch was served at both Sisson Hall and the Clinic by the Pre-Vet Club Much work was required and several problems had to be overcome to presentto the public the true picture of veterinshyary medicine (Not the least of these problems was presenting the professionshyal aspects of veterinary medicine in a garage) Everyone who worked so hard to present Pre-Vet Day 1967 deshyserves hearty congratulations

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REPORT ON SPEAKERS BUREAUBy RICHARD WHIPPS Vet Med IV This year the Speakers Bureau of

the AVMA Student Chapter has enshyjoyed its most successful year to date The Speakers Bureau was organizedthree years ago in an effort to inform the public of the broad scope of vetershyinary medicine Junior and senior vetshyerinary students have presented our profession to 4-H Clubs AgriculturalClubs and Survey Classes high schoolsand even to elementary school classesEach speaking engagement is usually handled by a team consisting of one senior and one junior with the senior student handling most of the speaking chores A stimulating question-and-anshyswer period follows almost every preshysentation

Student speakers participated in cashyreer-day programs in high schools throughout central Ohio including Coshylumbus Newark Lancaster and Censhyterburg Speakers presented mogtre specshyialized topics within the realm of vetshyerinary medicine to the Grove City Horsemasters 4-H Club the Wilmingshyton College Agricultural Club and Ag

AVMA NEWS By JUDY SAUERBREI Vet Med Ill This quarter as usual the student

chapter has been very active Pre-Vet Day (held Saturday April 15th) was a success with 510 people registering TheChiron the AVMA sponsored Colshylege of Veterinary Medicine yearbook has been mailed to the publishers and will be delivered to the student body byearly June The very active Speakers Bureau will continue to fulfill requestsfor guest speakers received throughoutthe summer New chairman of this comshymittee will be senior Tom Cummins Also this summer the Live Surgery exshyhibit which is presently at the Center of Science and Industry will be movedto Cincinnati for the Hamilton County Fair and then back to Columbus for The Ohio State Fair in August-Septemshyber

Members have enjoyed some very inshyteresting and informative programsthis quarter including a fine talk by ColScott Radcliff of the Ohio State Patrol

Survey classes and the Central Ohio Cocker Spaniel Club Topics for discusshysion included careers in veterinary medshyicine latest theories and developments in our profession various aspects ofveterinary preventive medicine and therole of the veterinarian in aerospace medicine The record for the longest distance traveled by student speakersthis year is held by the team who spoketo the Beta Beta Beta biological honorshyary of Marietta College

As chairman of the Speakers Bushyreau I would like to thank all the stushydents who served as speakers this yearEach person served his profession wellI am certain that the outreach of the Speakers Bureau will continue to grow as it presents the expanding field of veterinary medicine to the general pubshylic whose knowledge of our profession is in too many instances sadly lackingI would also like to express a specialthanks to Dr Donald Gisler of our facshyulty for giving his time and talents so that our presentations could be of the best possible quality

on Traffic Accidents and a large anishymal panel Members of this panel wereDr Albert Gabel of the OSU Veterinshyary Clinic Dr D G Miller SugarcreekDr Warren Amling London Dr Ed Kennedy Miamiville Dr Donald Moss-burger Bloomingburg Ohio

Other events for members of Student Chapter of AVMA included the Anshynual Awards Banquet on May 19th atthe Grandview Inn and the Spring Picshynic held on May 24th at Big Bear Farms

At the last meeting of the Student Chapter for Spring Quarter 1967 elecshytion of officers was held New officers for the academic year of 1967-68 will be President - Tom Hickey President-elect - Dick Hersman Vice President shyRalph Urmson Secretary - Sharon Schuman Treasurer - Bruce McCullocih These new officers have the great reshysponsibility of continuing to maintain the high standards of leadership exhibshyited by their predecessors

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Ohio State Fair Veterinary Medicine ExhibitBy DAVE ZIMMERMAN Vet Med Ill

For quite a few years the Ohio StateUniversity Student Chapter of the AVMA has presented an informative exhibit concerning veterinary medicineat the Ohio State Fair Last year this project took on a much wider scope Forthe first time live surgery was pershyformed in a modern portable surgical operating room Large pleriglass winshydows and closed circuit television enshyhanced the vantage point of the viewshying public

Again this summer the project will be presented at the Ohio State Fair Present plans call for two surgical proshycedures to be performed daily bylicensed and academy practicing veterishynarians representing their local acadeshymies with narration by students Talks

demonstrations and movies presentingthe complete and varied field of veterishynary medicine will round out the daily program

The purpose of the exhibit is to edushycate the public as to the wide rangeand high quality of service provided bythe modern veterinary clinic Althoughthis project is presented by the stushydents its aim is recognition of public and private practitioners through pubshylic exposure and education All demonshystrations will be presented in the proshyfessional and exacting way that modernveterinary medicine is practiced We feel certain that after a person has witshynessed the procedures presented he willbe much more aware of the ability posshysessed by his veterinarian

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Canine Research Projects SupportedBy The Columbus Collie Club

The Columbus Collie Club donated $3000 to the Ohio State University Vetshyerinary Medicine to be used in Canine research projects The grant was dishyvided among the following projectswhich will be conducted between June 1967 and June 1968 by seniors in the college

Richard Kight Tom Cummins Bob Smatt Dick Flinn L Joe Starcher

FULL THICKNESS BONE GRAPHS IN THE CANINE Seniors Tom Cumshymins Dick Flinn Gene Hofacre Bob Smatt Advisor Dr Richard Rudy

Full thickness bone graphs will be employed in the femur and radius of mature 25-40 pound beagle type dogsThe periosteum of the femur will be inshycised and elevated and the shaft transhysected proximally and distally and thenremoved The shaft will then be splitlongitudinally with care being taken to preserve the endosteum One-half will be discarded the other replaced in its former position The periosteum will beclosed Fixation will consist of an intrashymedullary pin and orthopedic wire Onthe anterior limb the radius will be exshyposed the periosteum split and eleshyvated A 25 cm piece of radius will then be removed Prior to this procedshyure an incision will have been made at the distal portion of the 7th rib and a

5 cm piece of rib removed with the periosteum intact This piece will be cut in half transversely The two secshytions side by side will be secured in theradial defect A Kirsthner splint andorthopedic wire will be used for fixation

The dogs will then be observed for eight weeks and the fracture sites willbe evaluated as to the strength and stashybility of the union

During the course of the study the dogs will be handled as much like acshytual clinical cases as possible Strict aseptic procedures will be carried out and the dogs will be adequately medishycated as would a clinical case

If shown to be successful the typeof graph described above may be utilshyized clinically in restoration of the conshytinuity of bones too severely fractured to be reduced by simpler and convenshytional techniques

QUANTITATIVE DETERMINAshyTION OF CORTICOSTEROIDS PROshyDUCED BY THE ADRENAL CORshyTEX Senior L Joe Starcher Advisshyors Dr Philip W Murdick Dr Edshyward F Donovan

From the results of this project it ishoped that the normal canine corticosshyteroid levels can be determined and a routine testing procedure established Itis possible that such a test would be asuseful as the blood test urinalysis andfecal examination when a complete exshyamination of a dog is done

A METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE RESIN-SPONGE TRIIODOTHROshyNINE UPTAKE TECHNIQUE IN DEshyTECTING THYROID FUNCTION OF THE DOG Senior Victoria L Voith Advisor Dr Walter Lobe

This experiment entails keeping twelve dogs-four in euthyroid four in hypothyroid and four in hyperthyroid states Blood samples will be drawn bishyweekly for three weeks and used to pershyform the resin-sponge triiodothyronine uptake test When radioactive iodine labeled triiodothyronine (T-3) is added

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to a serum sample it first saturates the It is unlikely although possible that unoccupied thyroid-binding sites on the practitioner will perform this tech-Thyroid Binding Protein (TBP) The nique himself but the blood sample remaining T-3 is taken up by the resin- could easily be sent to a laboratory sponge added to the sample The total equipped to perform such a test amount of T-3 is determined Then afshyter incubation the resin-sponge is CLINICAL EVALUATION OF RE-rinsed free of serum and with it the T-3 NAL F U N C T I O N Senior Dick bound to TBP The radioactivity re- Knight Advisor Dr Robert Candon maining in the resin-sponge is then de- The present clinical laboratory parashytermined The percent of radioactive meters for evaluation of renal function T-3 taken up by the resin-sponge is in- are incomplete and poorly understoodversely proportional to the unsaturated The dog that has renal impairment butsites on the TBG and directly propor- does not show frank clinical evidence of tional to the amount of endogenous thy- impairment is the animal that needs roxine and triiodothyronine circulating clinical outlines This animal is the one

The invitro technique used in this ex- that can be helped the most with earlyperiment has been shown to be an ac- therapy andor prophylactic regimes curate and safe method of assessing The purpose of the study is to define thyroid function in human beings The and evaluate clinical parameters for theexperiment is designed to determine the evaluations of glomerular filtration ratevalidity of this test in detection of the renal plasma flow tubular maximum canine thyroid function Since this tech- and sodium-potassium excretion in nique employs the use of serum and nephretic dogs Then if possible the de-does not expose the dog to radioactive velopment of a simple clinical test to iodine it has the possibilities of becom- accomplish these procedures will be atshying of diagnostic use to the practitioner tempted

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A new concept in controlling the bovine respiratory complex Stress plus respiratory viral agents act as the triggering mechanism for secondary bacterial infection in calves under range conditions during shipment and in the feedlot New Rea-Plex vaccine helps break the triggering pathogenic chain of this respiratory complex in stressed calves by controlling the two most common viral diseasesmdashParainfluenza-3 and IBR One 2 cc dose of Rea-Plex stimulates protection in susceptible cattle against both PI-3 and IBRmdashand offers the advantage of being a tissue culture origin desiccated modified live virus vaccine Safe potent and effective confirmed in field trials by bovine practitioners with no adverse reactions reported in cattle even under severe stress conditions Available 5 and 25 dose vials ^ mNew

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Another significant advancement in veterinary medicine from Fort Dodge

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NIH HEART GRANTBy FRANK PIPERS Vet Med Ill

Mutual interest on the part of a numshyber of research groups on campus conshyceived the idea of synthesizing capabilishyties and efforts with the end result beshying the formation and aquisition of an NIH grant entitled Biology of the Heart Participating in this endeavor are the Department of Veterinary Physhysiology College of Veterinary Medicineand the Departments of Physiology Medicine and Pathology College of Medicine

The two co-principal directors are Drs Smith and Warren There is a six man Steering Committee and approxishymately 20 to 25 professional efforts with an additional 15 to 20 man technical staff

The overall objective is to study allaspects of the normal and failing heartThe principle endeavors of this project will be

1) ultra microscopy of the failing heart

2) metabolism of the failing rat heart

3) bloodflow to visera and peripheral circulation

4) hemodynamics of the horse5) cardiac and renal function in dogs

with heart disease 6) ventricular and atrial activation

processes in cattle 7) uses of the computer in analyzing

electrocardiographic data of varshyious species

The nucleus of the microscopic workis at Starling Loving Hall where thereis an electron microscope The nucleus for macroscopic experimentation is at

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Sisson Hall where the installation of a $200000 facility has just been comshypleted The facility consists of

1) office space and a conference room2) two modern biochemistry laborashy

tories 3) One general research laboratory 4) a catheterization laboratory with

an adjoining dark room5) large animal laboratory with tilt-

table 6) a laboratory animal lab7) large walk-in refrigerator8) small animal holding quarters9) large animal holding quarters

10) mobile laboratory (which contains2 labs equipment area large anishymal holding stocks and a dark room)

The facilities encompass 6000 squarefeet and are located in the southern half of the basement of Sisson Hall

Although this is an interdisciplinary effort there are obvious advantages toour College

1) It will bring equipment and techshynology to our school

2) It will aid in training and teachshying of graduate veterinarians

3) We can glean information from research to apply to a clinical medium

4) We will have prestige from the success of the faculty

5) We should have the ability to atshytract high quality people to comeand study at our College

We are very proud of the developshyment of this facility and we wish it well

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Such encouragement of risky do-it-yourself client competition is not a factor when you use EVA

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OMEGA TAU SIGAAA NEWS By RONALD H BOCKBRADER

For all those non believers it can honshyestly be said that Spring has finally arshyrived in all its splendor despite severalfalse attempts to break loose from Winshyters tight grasp Needless to say the brothers of Omega Tau Sigma were eagerly awaiting Spring and met it with great enthusiasm

The first major item of business Spring quarter was the election of ofshyficers for the coming year Those elected were as follows

PresidentmdashDon Heagren Vice PresidentmdashAllen Bryant SecretarymdashRon Bockbrader TreasurermdashRich Hersman Assistant TreasurermdashTom Isaac

THE CHIRONBy DON SANDERS Vet Med Ill

This last year the Student Chapter ofthe AVMA voted to establish a yearshybook for the College of Veterinary Medshyicine The yearbook was named The Chiron The name refers to the centaur in Greek mythology who was renownedfor his skill in Medicine

The yearbook was launched by Florshyence Rutledge as editor Penalized byinexperience and a late start Miss Rutshyledge and the staff managed to meet the

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Sergeant-at-ArmsmdashJerry WolfParliamentarianmdashRalph Urmson ChaplainmdashRalph Broshes Rush ChairmanmdashJim Cobb Social ChairmenmdashJoe Starcher

Dave MacDonald Ron Conklin

House ManagermdashCharles Steinman The Brothers of Omega Tau Sigma

are sincere in thanking the retiring ofshyficers after an outstanding year and a job well done

After a fine intramural basketball season which netted a championship troshyphy OTS has again offered its chalshylenge in intramural events with severaltop softball teams

Socially Spring Quarter was again climaxed by the fabulous Senior Send-off and we say that modestly Of coursethe annual cocktail party at the house for Seniors only preceded the evening affair The party was held at Winding Hollow Country Club and exemplified the theme Regal Elegance A delishycious buffet dinner and drinks followed by dancing to Rick Monroes Quintet truly made Senior Sendoff the best everBrothers Grossi and Gurevitz chairshymen of the event can be commended for their efforts

As Spring Quarter draws to a close and the Seniors depart in pursuit of their goals we sincerely wish the best to them and hope that the Fraternityhas been and will continue to be a reshywarding and enjoyable experience for them

deadline for the publishers This yearshybook a true accomplishment for the editor and her staff will come off the press during the first part of June A few extra copies will be printed in case any alumni wish to purchase copies ($700)

Work has already begun on next years Chiron with Don Sanders as theincoming editor Anyone interested in a copy of the Chiron or interested in adshyvertising in next years issue pleasewrite to Don Sanders at the OSU Vetshyerinary Clinic 2578 Kenney Road Coshylumbus Ohio

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ALPHA PSI NEWS

ALPHA PSI By JAY FORSYTH Vet Med II

At the last meeting of the past quarshyter officers for the coming year were elected Jim Syler who did an outstandshying job as last years president was given the honor of serving another year Tom Burke was elected Vice Presshyident Tom Adams will serve as recordshying secretary Mike Snyder the new treasurer will be aided by Ron Montshygomery as assistant treasurer Dick

JIM ROSS (Continued from page 17)

University In the summer of 1966 he attended graduate school at Baylor Unishyversity College of Medicine Houston Texas

Dr Ross will receive his Master of Science degree in June of 1967 His thesis is entitled Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog Clinical and Physioshylogical Features

Beginning on July 1st 1967 Dr Rosswill be a member of the faculty at Bay-lor University College of Medicine with joint appointments in the departshyments of Physiology and Surgery

While an undergraduate student DrRoss became a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Omega Tau Sigma social frashyternities and of Phi Eta Sigma Gam-

Knight will serve as chief censor Jay Forsyth will act as corresponding secshyretary and Ed Stoughton will managethe house

Spring Quarter started off in greatstyle with a house party Alpha Psi thencombined with OTS and had a great time at Bridgeview Country Club

The speakers meeting for the past quarter included Dr R C Smith who spoke on the problems of setting upand running your own private practiceand Mr Joseph A Fodey Jr of CityNational Bank who spoke to the chapshyter about bankings relationship to theprofessional man

In the past two quarters the athleticteams of Alpha Psi have done well Boththe Freshmen and Sophomores broughthome trophies for their division titles Tuesday and Friday baseball squads arewarming up for title hopes after winshyning their league play despite the losses of Herb Betts with a broken foot and Brad Smith with a dislocated finshyger

Other spring events of Alpha Psi inshycluded the freshman welcome picnic onMay 15 1967 The sharp wit of Dr D0 Jones and the barbequed chicken were enjoyed by all The high point ofspring quarter was Senior Sendoff heldon May 26 1967 at the Hospitality Innat which the yearly awards were preshysented

ma Sigma Delta and Phi Zeta honorshyaries

Dr Ross will have a publication apshypearing in the Current VeterinaryTherapy 1967 (in press) entitled Dishyagnosis and Surgical Correction of Pashytent Ductus Arteriosus and Pulmonic Stenosis in the Dog On March 29th 1967 Dr Ross talked to the Northwesshytern OVMA on the subject Heart disease in small animal medicine He alshyso will talk on Diagnosis and SurgicalCorrection of the Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog at the National AVMA meeting in Dallas Texas in July of this year

Dr Ross is married He has a daughshyter Stephanie and his wife Marcia isexpecting a new arrival in June

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AVAAA FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Three members of the Junior Class

have been awarded AVMA grants for research in areas of veterinary medishycine Jon Bernstein is investigating speshycific renal and cardiovascular problemsHis sponsor Dr Robert Hamlin and the National Institute of Health are furnishing the necessary materials Usshying a radio-isotope technique Bernsteinwill be studying renal function of dogs in congestive heart failure He will deshytermine glomerular filtration rate renalblood flow and electrolyte excretion patterns before and after digitalization

Robert Stuhlman under the sponsorshyship of Dr Walter Loeb is using his horse His advisors are Dr Albert Gabel grant to develop a practical test which and Dr R B Heath Parameters monishyis diagnostic for the presence of hepa- tored will include arterial and venous

oxygen carbon dioxide and blood pH tocellular damage and its extent The respiratory rate and depth (pneumoshybasis of the test involves demonstrating graph) systolic and diastolic blood arginase activity with constant results pressures pulse rate and electrocardio-Roy Zinn will compare the effects of gram The ultimate goal of the project

succmylcholine alone and promazine is to evaluate the safety of intravenouswith succinylcholine on the cardiovascu- succinylcholine as an agent for casting lar and respiratory systems of the and restraint of the horse

QRowth bull gestationLactation

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Youre The DoctorBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

A female spayed basset hound IV2 years old was presented for rabies imshymunization with 5 ml of phenolized rashybies vaccine Five days later she was reshyturned in a semi-comatous condition The owner stated that her appetite waspoor ever since her vaccination On thisparticular morning she refused to rise and could not walk when forced to rise Thorough questioning eliminated the possible ingestion of any toxin

On physical examination the dog wasnon-responsive to stimuli Her anal sphincter was relaxed her pupils weremiotic and her temperature was 95deg The dog had a respiration rate of 40 perminute her heart rate was 30 per minshyute Hydration appeared normal but the dogs extremities were extremely cold Her urinary bladder was emptyand no urine could be obtained by cathshyeterization Peripheral lymph nodes were not enlarged nor were there any enlargements on abdominal palpation

The laboratory work done on the dogshowed that she had a PCV of 50 WBC of 7800 with 36 segs 7 non-segs 50 lymphs and 7 eos Her BUN was 147

mg100 ml creatinine was 6 mg100 ml Na was 131 meqL Cl was 96 meq L and K was 93 meqL Renal blood flow was 68 mlmin

The dog was given extensive treatshyment while hospitalized including perishytoneal dialysis She showed marked imshyprovement and so was sent home with medication seven days after admission Two days after dismissal the dog died

What is your diagnosis Doctor Answer on page 44

UPJOHN AWARDS Dale Duer was presented the Upjohn

Award for the most outstanding seniorin large animal medicine Dale is marshyried and is a member of the A V M A and Omega Tau Sigma Upon graduashytion Dale plans to enter large animal practice in Pennsylvania

Receiving the Upjohn Award for the most outstanding senior in small anishymal medicine was Guy Lockwood Guy is married and a member of the A V M A Omega Tau Sigma and Phi ZetaHe will be entering the U S Army Vetshyerinary Corps upon graduation

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Herd Health Management By JOHN C LEITE Vet Med IV PHILLIP A LINERODE DVM PhD

Herd Health Management is a totalapproach to large animal veterinarymedicine It combines into one programthe principles of preventive medicine and clinical medicine When properly apshyplied it could rejuvenate the Veterinarshyian-Farmer relationship

The herd health approach is based upon increasing a clients productivityinstead of running a salvage operationto keep him in business Ideally herd health management provides the means to secure optimum results from the entire herd The tools and techniquesused in herd health are principles ideasand experiments9 carefully and tactshyfully implemented

Since management is an integral part of the herd health approach it necessitates full cooperation of both the Veterinarian and the Farmer For this reason careful selection of clients for this approach is not only desirablebut absolutely essential Likewise the approach to secure cooperation is difshyferent for each farmer and is up to theingenuity of the Veterinarian The Farmer and the Veterinarian are not the only persons who should be inshyvolved in this approach to maximum production Often overlooked are lay people within the practice area who have special backgrounds information and talents that could help the proshygram The lay persons in this categoryare county extension agents vocationalagriculture teachers artificial insemshyination technicians local feed mill opshyerators and milking machine repair men The combined efforts of all these people can truly result in increased production and more profits for the farmer

It must be pointed out that the proshygram is long range and maximum beneshyfits cannot be gained in fewer than 5 or 6 generations in a herd Client confidence must be complete and full authority must be entrusted to the Veterinarian0 The type of operation is not important it may be dairy beef

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swine sheep or equine the principles remain the same

The contractual arrangements beshytween client and practitioner vary withthe type of program and also the geoshygraphic area and its customs Some methods that have been used are13

1 charge on a straight call basis 2 charge by the hour 3 charge by the herd 4 charge for total herd work and

consultation to be done in a giventime (usually by the month or year)

5 charge a percentage of the inshycrease in net profit made by theuse of your service in herd health management

It would be a waste of time to inshyitiate a herd health program without the client being on some type of herd record keeping system For production Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) or Owner Sample (OS) recshyords could be kept with a preference for DHIA Information from producshytion records will aid greatly in detershymining individuals who are worthy of special attention When production records are combined with health recshyords they become invaluable in selectshying stock for the future Recently Morshyrow10 at Cornell University and Boyd Murray and Beck14 at Michigan State developed health records in the form of a folder with moveable colored tabs which indicate the breeding phase of each individual cow These systems however did not attempt to bring toshygether DHIA production records with health records and calf records Bishopand Linerode2 have developed a record keeping system which provides an allshyin-one record keeping system on an 8x10 inch manila folder A unique feashyture of this folder is color tabs to help the dairyman anticipate heat and to indicate the proper time to beginchallenge feeding This new system canbe used by the 1) Dairyman 2) Vetshy

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DANTAFUR(brand of nitrofurantoin)

J racheopharyngitis can lay a horse low fast keep him out of action result in important economic losses to the owner You can return the animal to peak performance quickly with Dantafurreg Administration of Dantafur promptly reverses the course of tracheopharyngitis It relieves coughing and nasal discharge returns the animal to normal breathing

In urinary tract infections Dantafur places imporshytant antibacterial concentrations in the urine within 30 minutes after administration It is effective and practically specific for the infected urinary tract resulting in dramatic cures and animals clinically and bacteriologically free from infection1

DOSAGE Dantafur mdash Tracheopharyngitis (Race Track Cough) mdash for each 225 lbs body weight adshyminister perorally an initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 5 days Urinary Tract Infections mdash for each 225 lbs body weight administer perorally an

initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 7 days and for at least 3 days after urine is sterile SUPPLIED Dantafurmdashoral suspension veterinary Each cc contains 15 mg nitrofurantoin in special suspending medium containing 10 alcohol bottles of 473 cc and 1250 cc As with any potent antibacterial agent administer with caution in cases of marked impairment of renal function safe dosage may be less than usually recommended 1 Witter R S Third Regional Conference on Nitrourans in Veterinary Medicine Atlanta Georgia January 14 1960

Available through your professional veterinary distributor

bdquo J ~ j L Nitrofurans-a unique class ol antimicrobialsorigpnated and developed by

JF^ EATON LABORATORIES laquoato^raquo Division of The Norwich Pharmacal Company ^ NORWICH NEW YORK

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erinarian 3) A I Technician and 4) the Milk Tester This system will proshyvide a means for the dairyman to keepup with his record keeping

Once adequate records are availshyable the veterinarian is ready to tackle the herd health problems In many cases changes must be gradualbecause of the inherent characteristics and attitudes of the client Divisions can be made in order to work on vashyrious aspects of the program and not all aspects need to be carried out at once Five aspects have been adopted in the Herd Health Management Proshygrams in the Wooster Ohio area

1 Mastitis Control 2 Nutrition 3 Fertility and Reproduction 4 Calf Management and Vaccination 5 SanitationThese are discussed below

1 Mastitis Control Mastitis may be defined as an inshy

flammation of the mammary gland reshysulting from the interplay of various etiologic factors their environment andthe host in question From the definishytion it may be assumed that no one causative agent is responsible for masshytitis

Degrees or clinical types of mastitiscan be recognized severe - acute mild shyacute or chronic and subclinical

The severe type can be easily recogshynized and must be treated immediatelyOne recommended treatment would be the administration of Posterior Pituishytary Extract strip out the quarters and administer Liquimycin and sulfa IV with a repeat treatment in 24 hours

The mild and subclinical forms may go unrecognized and therefore some type of screening test should be pershyformed prior to the attachment of the milking machine The most common and easiest test to run is the strip plateor strip cup but some subclinical and even the mild cases may still go unshynoticed The following more elaborate tests may be used to detect these formsof mastitis

California Mastitis Test (CMT)12

Lye Mastitis Test (LMT)4

Michigan Mastitis Test (MMT)4

Liquimycinreg Charles Pfizer amp Co New York NY

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Whiteside Test9

A Whiteside Test or a Wisconsin Mastitis Test (WMT)12 may be run on bulk tanks to pick up the presence of mastitis in the herd

Further laboratory tests can be conshyducted on sterily collected milk samshyples

Culturemdashstreaking on BAP to obshytain isolation and tentative identishyfication

Catalase Test12mdashbased on the presshyence of catalase contained in sershyum white blood cells epithelial cells colostrum and bacteria

Coagulase Testmdashused to determine Staphoylococcus pathogenicity

Mastitis caused by infestious organshyism can be attributed almost 100 to Streptococcus agalactiia and Staphyshylococcus It has been said that the greatest economic loss is due to Streptococcus agalactiia This organism is easily diagnosed by the use of the Hotis Test and with proper treatment can be eliminated in the cow All cows should be tested once a montih for three months During this period the cows should be arranged in a milking seshyquence according to the results of the test The animals producing a positive test are treated by intramammary inshyfusion of 400000 units of penicillin in18cc of sterile distilled water into each quarter One treatment is usually sufshyficient to eradicate the organism The tests are then conducted every three months for the remainder of he yearand if the herd is free of the organismthey are then conducted at 6 month inshytervals1 To back a positive Hotis Testa Camp Test is run in the laboratory to prove or rule out the presence of a partial hemolizing agent

If Staphylococcus is suspected or proven the only treatment which may prove to be satisfactory is systemic treatment because of the location and pathogenic nature of the organism

Needless to say any cow with masshytitis should be placed last in the milkshying line and extra special sanitary preshycautions taken with her and the equipshyment A cow that fails to respond to treatment or has an irreversible fibshyrotic udder should be culled

Infective agents are not the only etiology for mastitis and the practionshy

41

er must maintain a keen eye to locate the other causes or possible causes and then have the condition corrected Othshyer etiologies may be improper milking injured teats and environmental 2 Nutrition

Good nutrition is an obvious and efshyfective tool for the progressive Veterishynarian to use in maintaining high proshyducers in a herd In general over half of the animal deaths are due to malnushytrition because inadequate nutrition will decrease the animals resistance to disshyease Nutrition is the cornerstone of success in herd health management and is often an overlooked factor in infertility It has been incriminated in fetal resorption and anestrus or failure to ovulate5

The basic approach would be to work out average requirements for the herd in digestible protein and Total Digestshyible Nutrients (TDN) A ration comshyposed of corn to supply TDN and soy bean oil meal to supply protein can fulfill the respective requirements and is economical Another rich source of protein is urea which can safely be used up to 3 of the ration It is availshyable in two forms 262 and 285 protein equivalents It is extremely cheap as compared to SBOM and the amount of protein derived from it A word of caution must be inserted here and that is to check with your local feed mill to see if they have the capashycity to mix urea into a ration Trace mineralized salt should be fed free choice

Forages and home grown grains should be tested periodically because it has been found that they may be below estimated textbook values3-5 depending on the type and condition of the growshying season

3 Fertility and Reproduction Fertility checks proper breeding and

a complete obstetrical program in the herd attempt to reach a goal of one calf per year from each cow As menshytioned before nutrition is a prime facshytor in fertility Once it is adequate a successful reproductive program can be launched

A cow should be palpated rectally 30 to 45 days after freshening to deshy

termine if uterine pathology is present or if the animal is ready to be bred on the next heat If pathology is present as indicated by an enlarged flaccid uterus that lacks tone the uterus should be infused with 4 million units of penicillin and 5 grams streptomycin combination mixed with 20cc of Utoshynex (2 mgm ethinyl estradiol and 20 mgm nitrofurathiazide) A cow that is bred on the heat after palpation would place the breeding date approximately 60 days after freshening The cow is then checked at 45-60 days after breedshying to determine if conception has ocshycurred and again prior to being dried off to detect any possible fetal resorpshytion or mummification5 The 45-60 day post breeding check is done to minimize lost time if conception did not occur on the initial breeding or if the fershytilized ova was lost and subsequent heat periods were missed

To aid the student and the clinician in palpating an approximate set of measurements of the whole bulge of the amniotic sac has been proposed

hens egg 40 days baseball 50 days softball 60 days volleyball 70 days basketball 80 days

Additional criteria can be used to apshyproximate the length of the pregnancy

35-60 days mdash slipping of the fetal membranes

85-90 days mdash fremitis of the midshydle uterine artery

110-120 days mdash presence of cotelyshydons

When following a regular program of rectal palpation abnormal conditions can be detected before they become irshyreversible Regular rectal palpation will clearly define the ovarian activity With this method of diagnosis expensive problem cows can be culled from the milk line or treated in an attempt to correct the difficulty In this program an accurate up to date set of records is essential

4 Calf Management and Vaccination This phase begins before the calf is

dropped The cow should be moved to a special maternity stall which is built to accommodate one cow very comfortshyably The calving stalls should be

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cleaned and disinfected between occushypants contain adequate clean bedding have good drainage be warm and have good ventilation The bedding should be changed periodically during the occupants tenure When the calf is dropped the umbilicus should be swabbed with a tincture of iodine and the fetal membranes removed before the cow can ingest them By performshying these simple tasks the new born has been given a much greater chance for survival When the time arrives for the calf to be separated from its mother it should be moved to an inshydividual calf stall When calves are pastthe stage of suckling one another theycan then be moved to clean well bedded and ventilated quarters which will acshycommodate several calves Nutrition is often overlooked in the calf crop in that they are usually fed the formushylated ration of the milking string A separate ration should be calculated forthe calves which is much higher in proshytein to accommodate fast growth The development of the calf during this period will have a direct influence onceshe enters the milk line Before reachshying the age of four months (120 days) calves are vaccinated for Brucellosis TB tested dehorned and have supershynumary teats removed If the owner so desires the calves may be vaccishynated for IBR and BVD at this time

The calf management program proshyvides a total health effort to improve the future milk string of the operashytion The program when followed dilishygently should provide for excellent calf survival with losses less than 1

5 Sanitation Sanitation should be the center of a

herd health program or the hub aroundwhich the other four aspects of the program revolve however it is often the most overlooked or neglected pracshytice in operations today It not only includes the premises but also theanimals and equipment

Junk and trash lying around the farm and especially around the barn and grain storage areas promote rats and mice Junk trash dirt cobwebs inside the barn present physical hazshyards to the animals This material is also a potential health hazard for it may provide the reservoir that disease

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needs in order to be propagated Improper drainage in the stall area

exercise lot and loafing shed promotethe accumulation of urine and feces and increase the possibility of animal foot problems and other health probshylems Manure is always a disposal probshylem but it must be cleaned daily fromthese areas and not allowd to accumushylate Bedding material must be changedfrequently if the animal urinates or dencates within the resting space Cowson which feces are allowed to accumushylate are health hazards to the herd and show a sign of poor management These cows should be washed and brushed to clean this material from their body

The housing and work areas must have adequate lighting so that the opshyerator and the Veterinarian may havemore ideal conditions in which to work More problem areas can be seen in a well lighted area than in a dark or dimly lit area Ventilation should be perfect so as to promote a healthy atshymosphere for the animals and lessen the possibility of money being lost due to respiratory diseases The principlesof admitting ample fresh air high andremoving the tainted air low will rid the area of moisture and foul ammonia fumes from urine

When designing the ventilation sysshytem it must be remembered that when admitting the fresh air the inlets mustbe planned so that there is one inlet of 60 sq in for every 3i2 - 1000 anishymal units The inlets can be placed at various places around the barn or stable area To eject the air a flue should beconsidered only if the distance from the highest point on the barn roof to the ground is 30 ft or more7 The flue size will be determined by the volume of the area to be evacuated It is imshyportant to place a door in the flue nearthe ceiling This door can be opened inthe summer months to aid in movingthe hot air which accumulates near the ceiling If the distance from the highshyest point on the barn roof to the groundis less than 30 ft a mechanical type system must be employed to evacuate the area The same principle applies in the mechanical systemmdashenter the fresh air high and exit the stale air low The number of mechanical units

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needed should be sufficient to provide a complete change of air six times every hour Sanitation also includes themilking parlor the equipment used and the technique employed in the acshytual milking The incidence of mastitis can increase when strict sanitary proshycedures are not adhered to The udder and especially the teats should be washed thoroughly with a mild soap and one of the iodine antiseptic prepshyarations This procedure not only stimushylates milk let down but reduces the possibility of spreading bacteria and contaminating the milk or other udshyders The inflation cups should be dipped into an iodine preparation inshysuring that the whole cup has been cleansed The cups then should be placed on the teat (after a strip plate test has been run) without allowingthem to touch the ground or other obshyjects such as bedding The wash waterand the water used to dip the teat cupsshould be changed at fifteen cow in-

This article is submitted due to interest shown by many and with the firm belief that Herd Health Management is the future of large anishymal practice The article was condensed from a paper prepared by Jack Leite for Dr Line-rode as part of the requirement for VeterinaryPreventive Medicine 740 Much of what is outshylined in this article comes from experience gained on field trips to Wooster Ohio area where herd health management programs are being conducted in five private dairy herds with the cooperation and participation of Drs Don Noah and Robert Mairs

1 A Syllabus on the Bovine Mammary Gland in Health amp Disease Department of Clinishycal Pathology School of Veterinary Medishycine University of California Davis Calishyfornia Schalm OW

2 Bishop J P amp Linerode PA Dairy Herd Health Management Record System Ohio State University 1967

3 Coppock CE amp Tyrell HE Feeding Recshyommendations for Lactating Cows Modern Veterinary Practice vol 48 1 January 1967

4 Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio

3 Drewry GH The Total Program Approachto Herd Health Management Modern Vetshyerinary Practice vol 48 2 February 1967

6 Guss Samuel B Milking Machines and Mastitis Modern Veterinary Practice vol 45 12 October 15 1964

7 Helwig John H Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinshyary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Personal Communication

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tervals throughout the milking proshycedure

The herd health management proshygram does not eliminate the emergencycalls The practitioner should be preshypared for them but the program shouldreduce the frequency of such calls andimproves the environment in which theVeterinarian must work Herd Health Management allows the farmer to proshyduce the greatest quantity of his proshyduct at the highest quality for the least cost A guideline in establishing a herd health program entitled Proshygramming Herd Health can be obshytained from Veterinary Practitioners Counseling Service VM Publishing Inc 144 N Nettleton Street Bonner Springs Kansas This aid to the pracshytitioner is available for Beef or Dairy operations at a nominal fee and may be a worth while investment for any one thinking of doing herd health work

8 Linerode Phillip A Department of Vetershyinary Preventative Medicine College of Vetshyerinary Medicine The Ohio State Universishyty Personal Communication

9 Modern Veterinary Practice vol 15 12 October 15 1964 p 8-62

10 Morrow DA Herd Health Records Corshynell University

11 Rice RE Trends in Large Animal Pracshytice Norden News vol 41 3 1966

12 US Department of Health Education and Welfare Screening Tests for Detection of Abnormal Milk 1965

13 Steere James H Modern Veterinary Pracshytice Reference and Data Service Large Anishymal 4 p A-8-8

14 Veterinary Clinic amp Dairy Dept Cooperashytive Extension Service Michigan State Unishyversity East Lansing Michigan

15 Woelffer EA Modern Veterinary Practice Reference and Data Service Large Animal 4 p A-8-19

YOURE THE DOCTOR (Continued)

Answer This dog had adrenal hyposhycortism or Addisons Disease The diagshynosis was confirmed by performing theThorn Test The preinjection samplecontained 1765 eoscu mm Two hoursafter the injection of ACTH the samshyple contained 1468 eoscu mm After four hours the sample contained 1815eoscu mm Necropsy confirmed thatthe dog had had adrenal hypocortisni

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Charles T McConnell 707 Main Street Toronto OhioLewis Animal HospitalCincinnati OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA Phi Zeta

Exhibit Chairman Pre-Vet Day

Mel McGannon Box 143 Windsor OhioBoyds Animal HospitalGeneva OhioMixed Practice AVMA Clinic Intern

John A Mehling 118 N Wood Street Fremont OhioCollege of Veterinary

Medicine Cornell UniversityIthaca NY Dairy Practice shy

Ambulatory ClinicianAVMA

Larry Miley R i Eaton OhioFt Snelling after Nov

15 1967 Minneapolis MinnUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Pre Vet Day guide

Richard A Myersco Richard D Myers1271 Arbor Lane Marion OhioClover Park Veterinary

HospitalTacoma WashingtonSmall Animal Practice AVMA

Terry Owen4671 Venus Road Uniontown Rd 2 Ohio Letterman General HospSurgical amp Physiological

Research San Francisco Cal US ArmyAVMA OTS Pre-

Vet Day

F Daniel Paulo RD 1 Box 100 North Jackson OhioBeale AFB CaliforniaUSAF AVMA class

representative secretaryOTS Student Council

John Carl Pratt Rankins Creek Road South Point Ohio 45680South Point OhioMixed Mostly Large

Animal PracticeAVMA

Orben Pratt Jr Rt 1 St Paris Ohio 43072Ft McArthur Los Angeles CaliforniaUS ArmyAVMA OTS

intramural sports

James Purvis 525 KensingtonMiddletown Ohio 45042Lynch Animal Hospital3410 Tytus AveMiddletown OSmall Animal PracticeAVMA OTS

Intramural SportsStudent Council

Michael Radcliffe 2587 Mt Holyoke DriveColumbus Ohio 43221San Francisco Calif Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Charles P Raflo 6267 Elbrook Avenue Cincinnati Ohio 45237Aberdeen Proving Ground

MarylandUS ArmyAVMA Alpha Psi

Recording SecyChief Censor

William T Rannells RFD 1 New Plymouth Ohio

45654New Plymouth OhioMixed Practice AVMA

Bill B ReynoldsRt 3 Box 510Clarksburg W Va Reynolds Animal HospitalClarksburg W Va Mixed Practice AVMA OTS Phi

Zeta Student CouncilPresident Master of Ceremonies at AVMA Awards Banquet

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Florence Rutledge11815 Davis Court Lakewood Ohio 44107Gasow Veterinary Hospital1521 North Woodward

Ave Birmingham Michigan

48011 Small Animal Practice AVMA Chiron Editor

Sigma Gamma DeltaBorden Award Phi Zeta

William R SayleChagrin Falls Ohio 44042Amherst Animal HospitalAmherst Ohio 44001Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Intramurals PledgeMaster PresidentStudent Council

Speculum Chiron Gamma Award ClassPresident Merck Award

Richard Soldner 3322 Maize Rd Columbus OhioSpringfield Animal

Hospital36 Warder StreetSpringfield OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS PhiZeta Exhibit Chairman

Pre-Vet Day

George R SikoraHinckley OhioRichards amp Gebauer

AFBKansas City MoUSAF Base

Veterinarian AVMA Phi Zeta

Chiron SpeculumAlpha Psi Award

Joseph L Wagner6921 Salem Road Cincinnati Ohio 45030Laboratory Animal

FacilitySchool of Medicine shy

University of NorthCarolina

Chapel Hill NorthCarolina 27514

Laboratory AnimalMedicine - Graduate School

AVMA OTS PhiZeta AVMAFoundation ScholarshipMark Morris Research

Fellow Pre-Vet Day Speculum

Co-editor

Richard D Whipps1447 Thurell Rd Columbus OhioFort Lewis Spokane WashingtonUS ArmyAVMA Chiron

Business Mgr SpeakersBureau Chairman

William Lee Yakely1309 Cross Street Dover OhioWashington State

University - College ofVeterinary Medicine

Resident AVMA Co-Chairman

Publicity amp Picnic Committee ChairmanLive Surgery ExhibitTreasurer Vice-President OTSChairman Awards

AVMA Auxiliary AwardCommittee MarkMorris Research Fellow

Michael Youshak Huntsburg OhioVeterinary PathologyOhio State University1925 Coffey RoadColumbus OhioPost-Doctoral Graduate

ProgramAVMA President

OTS Phi Zeta PhizerAward Alpha PsiAlumni Award Speculum Chiron Pre-Doctoral FellowPublicity Co-ChairmanPre-Vet Day LiveSurgery ExhibitProgram ChairmanIntramurals

Martin Harold Zarnett 862 E 17th St Brooklyn New York 11230Aqueduct RacetrackSaratoga RacewayAiken amp Camden So Carolina Equine PracticeAVMA OTS Pre-Vet

Day Guide Asst LiveSurgery Exhibit

Jack B Zines MC 24 Salem OhioLarge Animal PracticeAVMA OTS Clinic

Intern

SPRING 1967

One of our salesmen made his first calls in this

Seems he started calling on veterinarians 40 years ago He didnt think about selling He thought about animals diseases how to cure them or prevent them Hed recomshymend this that or the other of his products that he thought would be most helpful And the veterinarians liked him Still do In fact nowadays hes calling on the sons of some of his original customers And his point of view is pretty much like that of the rest of our salesmen Their average length of service is 16 years When you stay with a company that long you dont exactly sell it Youre part of it

P I T M A N - M O O R E Division of The Dow Chemical Company Midland Michigan 48640

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PRE-VET DAY - 1967By E DAN WOLF Vet Med Ill

Informative educational professionshyally presentedmdashthese were a few of theevaluations expressed by the 510 pershysons who attended Pre-Vet Day 1967

Following registration tour groups of 25-30 people were formed and each group was led by two student guides through Sisson Hall Goss Pathology Laboratory and the Veterinary ClinicThe program consisted of informative speeches and a tour of the College Theofficial College welcome was extended byDr Walter Venzke This was followed by brief descriptions of the various fields of veterinary medicine Dr Roshybert Hamlin education and research Dr D 0 Jones public health Dr BruceWenger small animal practice Dr James Donham and Dr Clyde Purdy large animal practice Dean Krill then explained the academic and personal qualifications for admission to the colshylege

The tour of the college consisted of explanations and displays illustratingthe function of each department Thesewere prepared and presented by the stushydents and included Anatomy mdash Ron Bockbrader and Dave

HenryBacteriology mdash Jim Guenther Robert

Temple and Stan EichelbergerParasitology mdash Scott Anderson and

Dave Farris Physiology and Pharmacology mdash Frank

Pipers and Steve KurtzerPreventive Medicine mdash Tom Cummins

and Dick Smolen Library mdash Sharon Schumann and Ken

Clever

Pathology mdash Tom Burke Mike Wanskyand Bruce McCullough

Small Animal Medicine mdash Bill Sayle andTed Panhuis

Small Animal Surgery mdash Dick Soldner Ralph Urmson and Doug Cbatney

Large Animal Medicine mdash Harold Fershyguson Bill Reynolds and Fred Adams

Large Animal Surgery mdash Dale Duerr Dick Dailey and Dave McDonald

Ambulatory mdash James Booth Ames Alshylen and Gary Bowman

Clinical Pathology mdash Charles McConshynell Jack Zines and Bill Sternecker

Radiology mdash James Syler and Victoria Voith Some of the departmental programs

presented were Evaluation of Various Physiological Parameters Studies on Gnotobiotic Animals The Physical Exshyamination Basic Surgical Equipment Preparation and Common Surgical Sitshyuations Foaling Rumenotomy and GasAnesthesia Equipment

The majority of those attending Pre-Vet Day seemed to be quite interestedand awed by the varied knowledge andthe professional qualifications of the veterinarian

Lunch was served at both Sisson Hall and the Clinic by the Pre-Vet Club Much work was required and several problems had to be overcome to presentto the public the true picture of veterinshyary medicine (Not the least of these problems was presenting the professionshyal aspects of veterinary medicine in a garage) Everyone who worked so hard to present Pre-Vet Day 1967 deshyserves hearty congratulations

SPRING 1967 27

REPORT ON SPEAKERS BUREAUBy RICHARD WHIPPS Vet Med IV This year the Speakers Bureau of

the AVMA Student Chapter has enshyjoyed its most successful year to date The Speakers Bureau was organizedthree years ago in an effort to inform the public of the broad scope of vetershyinary medicine Junior and senior vetshyerinary students have presented our profession to 4-H Clubs AgriculturalClubs and Survey Classes high schoolsand even to elementary school classesEach speaking engagement is usually handled by a team consisting of one senior and one junior with the senior student handling most of the speaking chores A stimulating question-and-anshyswer period follows almost every preshysentation

Student speakers participated in cashyreer-day programs in high schools throughout central Ohio including Coshylumbus Newark Lancaster and Censhyterburg Speakers presented mogtre specshyialized topics within the realm of vetshyerinary medicine to the Grove City Horsemasters 4-H Club the Wilmingshyton College Agricultural Club and Ag

AVMA NEWS By JUDY SAUERBREI Vet Med Ill This quarter as usual the student

chapter has been very active Pre-Vet Day (held Saturday April 15th) was a success with 510 people registering TheChiron the AVMA sponsored Colshylege of Veterinary Medicine yearbook has been mailed to the publishers and will be delivered to the student body byearly June The very active Speakers Bureau will continue to fulfill requestsfor guest speakers received throughoutthe summer New chairman of this comshymittee will be senior Tom Cummins Also this summer the Live Surgery exshyhibit which is presently at the Center of Science and Industry will be movedto Cincinnati for the Hamilton County Fair and then back to Columbus for The Ohio State Fair in August-Septemshyber

Members have enjoyed some very inshyteresting and informative programsthis quarter including a fine talk by ColScott Radcliff of the Ohio State Patrol

Survey classes and the Central Ohio Cocker Spaniel Club Topics for discusshysion included careers in veterinary medshyicine latest theories and developments in our profession various aspects ofveterinary preventive medicine and therole of the veterinarian in aerospace medicine The record for the longest distance traveled by student speakersthis year is held by the team who spoketo the Beta Beta Beta biological honorshyary of Marietta College

As chairman of the Speakers Bushyreau I would like to thank all the stushydents who served as speakers this yearEach person served his profession wellI am certain that the outreach of the Speakers Bureau will continue to grow as it presents the expanding field of veterinary medicine to the general pubshylic whose knowledge of our profession is in too many instances sadly lackingI would also like to express a specialthanks to Dr Donald Gisler of our facshyulty for giving his time and talents so that our presentations could be of the best possible quality

on Traffic Accidents and a large anishymal panel Members of this panel wereDr Albert Gabel of the OSU Veterinshyary Clinic Dr D G Miller SugarcreekDr Warren Amling London Dr Ed Kennedy Miamiville Dr Donald Moss-burger Bloomingburg Ohio

Other events for members of Student Chapter of AVMA included the Anshynual Awards Banquet on May 19th atthe Grandview Inn and the Spring Picshynic held on May 24th at Big Bear Farms

At the last meeting of the Student Chapter for Spring Quarter 1967 elecshytion of officers was held New officers for the academic year of 1967-68 will be President - Tom Hickey President-elect - Dick Hersman Vice President shyRalph Urmson Secretary - Sharon Schuman Treasurer - Bruce McCullocih These new officers have the great reshysponsibility of continuing to maintain the high standards of leadership exhibshyited by their predecessors

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Ohio State Fair Veterinary Medicine ExhibitBy DAVE ZIMMERMAN Vet Med Ill

For quite a few years the Ohio StateUniversity Student Chapter of the AVMA has presented an informative exhibit concerning veterinary medicineat the Ohio State Fair Last year this project took on a much wider scope Forthe first time live surgery was pershyformed in a modern portable surgical operating room Large pleriglass winshydows and closed circuit television enshyhanced the vantage point of the viewshying public

Again this summer the project will be presented at the Ohio State Fair Present plans call for two surgical proshycedures to be performed daily bylicensed and academy practicing veterishynarians representing their local acadeshymies with narration by students Talks

demonstrations and movies presentingthe complete and varied field of veterishynary medicine will round out the daily program

The purpose of the exhibit is to edushycate the public as to the wide rangeand high quality of service provided bythe modern veterinary clinic Althoughthis project is presented by the stushydents its aim is recognition of public and private practitioners through pubshylic exposure and education All demonshystrations will be presented in the proshyfessional and exacting way that modernveterinary medicine is practiced We feel certain that after a person has witshynessed the procedures presented he willbe much more aware of the ability posshysessed by his veterinarian

Columbus Only Motor - Inn Within

Walking Distance of the Campus

OHIO STATER INNDirectly across the street

from from the Ohio State Campus

For Reservations WriteOhio Stater Inn

Mr Melvin Circle Manager2060 North High Street at East Woodruff

Columbus Ohio 43201or telephone 294-5381 Columbus Ohio

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Canine Research Projects SupportedBy The Columbus Collie Club

The Columbus Collie Club donated $3000 to the Ohio State University Vetshyerinary Medicine to be used in Canine research projects The grant was dishyvided among the following projectswhich will be conducted between June 1967 and June 1968 by seniors in the college

Richard Kight Tom Cummins Bob Smatt Dick Flinn L Joe Starcher

FULL THICKNESS BONE GRAPHS IN THE CANINE Seniors Tom Cumshymins Dick Flinn Gene Hofacre Bob Smatt Advisor Dr Richard Rudy

Full thickness bone graphs will be employed in the femur and radius of mature 25-40 pound beagle type dogsThe periosteum of the femur will be inshycised and elevated and the shaft transhysected proximally and distally and thenremoved The shaft will then be splitlongitudinally with care being taken to preserve the endosteum One-half will be discarded the other replaced in its former position The periosteum will beclosed Fixation will consist of an intrashymedullary pin and orthopedic wire Onthe anterior limb the radius will be exshyposed the periosteum split and eleshyvated A 25 cm piece of radius will then be removed Prior to this procedshyure an incision will have been made at the distal portion of the 7th rib and a

5 cm piece of rib removed with the periosteum intact This piece will be cut in half transversely The two secshytions side by side will be secured in theradial defect A Kirsthner splint andorthopedic wire will be used for fixation

The dogs will then be observed for eight weeks and the fracture sites willbe evaluated as to the strength and stashybility of the union

During the course of the study the dogs will be handled as much like acshytual clinical cases as possible Strict aseptic procedures will be carried out and the dogs will be adequately medishycated as would a clinical case

If shown to be successful the typeof graph described above may be utilshyized clinically in restoration of the conshytinuity of bones too severely fractured to be reduced by simpler and convenshytional techniques

QUANTITATIVE DETERMINAshyTION OF CORTICOSTEROIDS PROshyDUCED BY THE ADRENAL CORshyTEX Senior L Joe Starcher Advisshyors Dr Philip W Murdick Dr Edshyward F Donovan

From the results of this project it ishoped that the normal canine corticosshyteroid levels can be determined and a routine testing procedure established Itis possible that such a test would be asuseful as the blood test urinalysis andfecal examination when a complete exshyamination of a dog is done

A METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE RESIN-SPONGE TRIIODOTHROshyNINE UPTAKE TECHNIQUE IN DEshyTECTING THYROID FUNCTION OF THE DOG Senior Victoria L Voith Advisor Dr Walter Lobe

This experiment entails keeping twelve dogs-four in euthyroid four in hypothyroid and four in hyperthyroid states Blood samples will be drawn bishyweekly for three weeks and used to pershyform the resin-sponge triiodothyronine uptake test When radioactive iodine labeled triiodothyronine (T-3) is added

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to a serum sample it first saturates the It is unlikely although possible that unoccupied thyroid-binding sites on the practitioner will perform this tech-Thyroid Binding Protein (TBP) The nique himself but the blood sample remaining T-3 is taken up by the resin- could easily be sent to a laboratory sponge added to the sample The total equipped to perform such a test amount of T-3 is determined Then afshyter incubation the resin-sponge is CLINICAL EVALUATION OF RE-rinsed free of serum and with it the T-3 NAL F U N C T I O N Senior Dick bound to TBP The radioactivity re- Knight Advisor Dr Robert Candon maining in the resin-sponge is then de- The present clinical laboratory parashytermined The percent of radioactive meters for evaluation of renal function T-3 taken up by the resin-sponge is in- are incomplete and poorly understoodversely proportional to the unsaturated The dog that has renal impairment butsites on the TBG and directly propor- does not show frank clinical evidence of tional to the amount of endogenous thy- impairment is the animal that needs roxine and triiodothyronine circulating clinical outlines This animal is the one

The invitro technique used in this ex- that can be helped the most with earlyperiment has been shown to be an ac- therapy andor prophylactic regimes curate and safe method of assessing The purpose of the study is to define thyroid function in human beings The and evaluate clinical parameters for theexperiment is designed to determine the evaluations of glomerular filtration ratevalidity of this test in detection of the renal plasma flow tubular maximum canine thyroid function Since this tech- and sodium-potassium excretion in nique employs the use of serum and nephretic dogs Then if possible the de-does not expose the dog to radioactive velopment of a simple clinical test to iodine it has the possibilities of becom- accomplish these procedures will be atshying of diagnostic use to the practitioner tempted

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A new concept in controlling the bovine respiratory complex Stress plus respiratory viral agents act as the triggering mechanism for secondary bacterial infection in calves under range conditions during shipment and in the feedlot New Rea-Plex vaccine helps break the triggering pathogenic chain of this respiratory complex in stressed calves by controlling the two most common viral diseasesmdashParainfluenza-3 and IBR One 2 cc dose of Rea-Plex stimulates protection in susceptible cattle against both PI-3 and IBRmdashand offers the advantage of being a tissue culture origin desiccated modified live virus vaccine Safe potent and effective confirmed in field trials by bovine practitioners with no adverse reactions reported in cattle even under severe stress conditions Available 5 and 25 dose vials ^ mNew

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Another significant advancement in veterinary medicine from Fort Dodge

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NIH HEART GRANTBy FRANK PIPERS Vet Med Ill

Mutual interest on the part of a numshyber of research groups on campus conshyceived the idea of synthesizing capabilishyties and efforts with the end result beshying the formation and aquisition of an NIH grant entitled Biology of the Heart Participating in this endeavor are the Department of Veterinary Physhysiology College of Veterinary Medicineand the Departments of Physiology Medicine and Pathology College of Medicine

The two co-principal directors are Drs Smith and Warren There is a six man Steering Committee and approxishymately 20 to 25 professional efforts with an additional 15 to 20 man technical staff

The overall objective is to study allaspects of the normal and failing heartThe principle endeavors of this project will be

1) ultra microscopy of the failing heart

2) metabolism of the failing rat heart

3) bloodflow to visera and peripheral circulation

4) hemodynamics of the horse5) cardiac and renal function in dogs

with heart disease 6) ventricular and atrial activation

processes in cattle 7) uses of the computer in analyzing

electrocardiographic data of varshyious species

The nucleus of the microscopic workis at Starling Loving Hall where thereis an electron microscope The nucleus for macroscopic experimentation is at

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Sisson Hall where the installation of a $200000 facility has just been comshypleted The facility consists of

1) office space and a conference room2) two modern biochemistry laborashy

tories 3) One general research laboratory 4) a catheterization laboratory with

an adjoining dark room5) large animal laboratory with tilt-

table 6) a laboratory animal lab7) large walk-in refrigerator8) small animal holding quarters9) large animal holding quarters

10) mobile laboratory (which contains2 labs equipment area large anishymal holding stocks and a dark room)

The facilities encompass 6000 squarefeet and are located in the southern half of the basement of Sisson Hall

Although this is an interdisciplinary effort there are obvious advantages toour College

1) It will bring equipment and techshynology to our school

2) It will aid in training and teachshying of graduate veterinarians

3) We can glean information from research to apply to a clinical medium

4) We will have prestige from the success of the faculty

5) We should have the ability to atshytract high quality people to comeand study at our College

We are very proud of the developshyment of this facility and we wish it well

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Such encouragement of risky do-it-yourself client competition is not a factor when you use EVA

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OMEGA TAU SIGAAA NEWS By RONALD H BOCKBRADER

For all those non believers it can honshyestly be said that Spring has finally arshyrived in all its splendor despite severalfalse attempts to break loose from Winshyters tight grasp Needless to say the brothers of Omega Tau Sigma were eagerly awaiting Spring and met it with great enthusiasm

The first major item of business Spring quarter was the election of ofshyficers for the coming year Those elected were as follows

PresidentmdashDon Heagren Vice PresidentmdashAllen Bryant SecretarymdashRon Bockbrader TreasurermdashRich Hersman Assistant TreasurermdashTom Isaac

THE CHIRONBy DON SANDERS Vet Med Ill

This last year the Student Chapter ofthe AVMA voted to establish a yearshybook for the College of Veterinary Medshyicine The yearbook was named The Chiron The name refers to the centaur in Greek mythology who was renownedfor his skill in Medicine

The yearbook was launched by Florshyence Rutledge as editor Penalized byinexperience and a late start Miss Rutshyledge and the staff managed to meet the

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Sergeant-at-ArmsmdashJerry WolfParliamentarianmdashRalph Urmson ChaplainmdashRalph Broshes Rush ChairmanmdashJim Cobb Social ChairmenmdashJoe Starcher

Dave MacDonald Ron Conklin

House ManagermdashCharles Steinman The Brothers of Omega Tau Sigma

are sincere in thanking the retiring ofshyficers after an outstanding year and a job well done

After a fine intramural basketball season which netted a championship troshyphy OTS has again offered its chalshylenge in intramural events with severaltop softball teams

Socially Spring Quarter was again climaxed by the fabulous Senior Send-off and we say that modestly Of coursethe annual cocktail party at the house for Seniors only preceded the evening affair The party was held at Winding Hollow Country Club and exemplified the theme Regal Elegance A delishycious buffet dinner and drinks followed by dancing to Rick Monroes Quintet truly made Senior Sendoff the best everBrothers Grossi and Gurevitz chairshymen of the event can be commended for their efforts

As Spring Quarter draws to a close and the Seniors depart in pursuit of their goals we sincerely wish the best to them and hope that the Fraternityhas been and will continue to be a reshywarding and enjoyable experience for them

deadline for the publishers This yearshybook a true accomplishment for the editor and her staff will come off the press during the first part of June A few extra copies will be printed in case any alumni wish to purchase copies ($700)

Work has already begun on next years Chiron with Don Sanders as theincoming editor Anyone interested in a copy of the Chiron or interested in adshyvertising in next years issue pleasewrite to Don Sanders at the OSU Vetshyerinary Clinic 2578 Kenney Road Coshylumbus Ohio

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ALPHA PSI NEWS

ALPHA PSI By JAY FORSYTH Vet Med II

At the last meeting of the past quarshyter officers for the coming year were elected Jim Syler who did an outstandshying job as last years president was given the honor of serving another year Tom Burke was elected Vice Presshyident Tom Adams will serve as recordshying secretary Mike Snyder the new treasurer will be aided by Ron Montshygomery as assistant treasurer Dick

JIM ROSS (Continued from page 17)

University In the summer of 1966 he attended graduate school at Baylor Unishyversity College of Medicine Houston Texas

Dr Ross will receive his Master of Science degree in June of 1967 His thesis is entitled Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog Clinical and Physioshylogical Features

Beginning on July 1st 1967 Dr Rosswill be a member of the faculty at Bay-lor University College of Medicine with joint appointments in the departshyments of Physiology and Surgery

While an undergraduate student DrRoss became a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Omega Tau Sigma social frashyternities and of Phi Eta Sigma Gam-

Knight will serve as chief censor Jay Forsyth will act as corresponding secshyretary and Ed Stoughton will managethe house

Spring Quarter started off in greatstyle with a house party Alpha Psi thencombined with OTS and had a great time at Bridgeview Country Club

The speakers meeting for the past quarter included Dr R C Smith who spoke on the problems of setting upand running your own private practiceand Mr Joseph A Fodey Jr of CityNational Bank who spoke to the chapshyter about bankings relationship to theprofessional man

In the past two quarters the athleticteams of Alpha Psi have done well Boththe Freshmen and Sophomores broughthome trophies for their division titles Tuesday and Friday baseball squads arewarming up for title hopes after winshyning their league play despite the losses of Herb Betts with a broken foot and Brad Smith with a dislocated finshyger

Other spring events of Alpha Psi inshycluded the freshman welcome picnic onMay 15 1967 The sharp wit of Dr D0 Jones and the barbequed chicken were enjoyed by all The high point ofspring quarter was Senior Sendoff heldon May 26 1967 at the Hospitality Innat which the yearly awards were preshysented

ma Sigma Delta and Phi Zeta honorshyaries

Dr Ross will have a publication apshypearing in the Current VeterinaryTherapy 1967 (in press) entitled Dishyagnosis and Surgical Correction of Pashytent Ductus Arteriosus and Pulmonic Stenosis in the Dog On March 29th 1967 Dr Ross talked to the Northwesshytern OVMA on the subject Heart disease in small animal medicine He alshyso will talk on Diagnosis and SurgicalCorrection of the Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog at the National AVMA meeting in Dallas Texas in July of this year

Dr Ross is married He has a daughshyter Stephanie and his wife Marcia isexpecting a new arrival in June

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AVAAA FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Three members of the Junior Class

have been awarded AVMA grants for research in areas of veterinary medishycine Jon Bernstein is investigating speshycific renal and cardiovascular problemsHis sponsor Dr Robert Hamlin and the National Institute of Health are furnishing the necessary materials Usshying a radio-isotope technique Bernsteinwill be studying renal function of dogs in congestive heart failure He will deshytermine glomerular filtration rate renalblood flow and electrolyte excretion patterns before and after digitalization

Robert Stuhlman under the sponsorshyship of Dr Walter Loeb is using his horse His advisors are Dr Albert Gabel grant to develop a practical test which and Dr R B Heath Parameters monishyis diagnostic for the presence of hepa- tored will include arterial and venous

oxygen carbon dioxide and blood pH tocellular damage and its extent The respiratory rate and depth (pneumoshybasis of the test involves demonstrating graph) systolic and diastolic blood arginase activity with constant results pressures pulse rate and electrocardio-Roy Zinn will compare the effects of gram The ultimate goal of the project

succmylcholine alone and promazine is to evaluate the safety of intravenouswith succinylcholine on the cardiovascu- succinylcholine as an agent for casting lar and respiratory systems of the and restraint of the horse

QRowth bull gestationLactation

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SPRING 1967 37

Youre The DoctorBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

A female spayed basset hound IV2 years old was presented for rabies imshymunization with 5 ml of phenolized rashybies vaccine Five days later she was reshyturned in a semi-comatous condition The owner stated that her appetite waspoor ever since her vaccination On thisparticular morning she refused to rise and could not walk when forced to rise Thorough questioning eliminated the possible ingestion of any toxin

On physical examination the dog wasnon-responsive to stimuli Her anal sphincter was relaxed her pupils weremiotic and her temperature was 95deg The dog had a respiration rate of 40 perminute her heart rate was 30 per minshyute Hydration appeared normal but the dogs extremities were extremely cold Her urinary bladder was emptyand no urine could be obtained by cathshyeterization Peripheral lymph nodes were not enlarged nor were there any enlargements on abdominal palpation

The laboratory work done on the dogshowed that she had a PCV of 50 WBC of 7800 with 36 segs 7 non-segs 50 lymphs and 7 eos Her BUN was 147

mg100 ml creatinine was 6 mg100 ml Na was 131 meqL Cl was 96 meq L and K was 93 meqL Renal blood flow was 68 mlmin

The dog was given extensive treatshyment while hospitalized including perishytoneal dialysis She showed marked imshyprovement and so was sent home with medication seven days after admission Two days after dismissal the dog died

What is your diagnosis Doctor Answer on page 44

UPJOHN AWARDS Dale Duer was presented the Upjohn

Award for the most outstanding seniorin large animal medicine Dale is marshyried and is a member of the A V M A and Omega Tau Sigma Upon graduashytion Dale plans to enter large animal practice in Pennsylvania

Receiving the Upjohn Award for the most outstanding senior in small anishymal medicine was Guy Lockwood Guy is married and a member of the A V M A Omega Tau Sigma and Phi ZetaHe will be entering the U S Army Vetshyerinary Corps upon graduation

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Herd Health Management By JOHN C LEITE Vet Med IV PHILLIP A LINERODE DVM PhD

Herd Health Management is a totalapproach to large animal veterinarymedicine It combines into one programthe principles of preventive medicine and clinical medicine When properly apshyplied it could rejuvenate the Veterinarshyian-Farmer relationship

The herd health approach is based upon increasing a clients productivityinstead of running a salvage operationto keep him in business Ideally herd health management provides the means to secure optimum results from the entire herd The tools and techniquesused in herd health are principles ideasand experiments9 carefully and tactshyfully implemented

Since management is an integral part of the herd health approach it necessitates full cooperation of both the Veterinarian and the Farmer For this reason careful selection of clients for this approach is not only desirablebut absolutely essential Likewise the approach to secure cooperation is difshyferent for each farmer and is up to theingenuity of the Veterinarian The Farmer and the Veterinarian are not the only persons who should be inshyvolved in this approach to maximum production Often overlooked are lay people within the practice area who have special backgrounds information and talents that could help the proshygram The lay persons in this categoryare county extension agents vocationalagriculture teachers artificial insemshyination technicians local feed mill opshyerators and milking machine repair men The combined efforts of all these people can truly result in increased production and more profits for the farmer

It must be pointed out that the proshygram is long range and maximum beneshyfits cannot be gained in fewer than 5 or 6 generations in a herd Client confidence must be complete and full authority must be entrusted to the Veterinarian0 The type of operation is not important it may be dairy beef

SPRING 1967

swine sheep or equine the principles remain the same

The contractual arrangements beshytween client and practitioner vary withthe type of program and also the geoshygraphic area and its customs Some methods that have been used are13

1 charge on a straight call basis 2 charge by the hour 3 charge by the herd 4 charge for total herd work and

consultation to be done in a giventime (usually by the month or year)

5 charge a percentage of the inshycrease in net profit made by theuse of your service in herd health management

It would be a waste of time to inshyitiate a herd health program without the client being on some type of herd record keeping system For production Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) or Owner Sample (OS) recshyords could be kept with a preference for DHIA Information from producshytion records will aid greatly in detershymining individuals who are worthy of special attention When production records are combined with health recshyords they become invaluable in selectshying stock for the future Recently Morshyrow10 at Cornell University and Boyd Murray and Beck14 at Michigan State developed health records in the form of a folder with moveable colored tabs which indicate the breeding phase of each individual cow These systems however did not attempt to bring toshygether DHIA production records with health records and calf records Bishopand Linerode2 have developed a record keeping system which provides an allshyin-one record keeping system on an 8x10 inch manila folder A unique feashyture of this folder is color tabs to help the dairyman anticipate heat and to indicate the proper time to beginchallenge feeding This new system canbe used by the 1) Dairyman 2) Vetshy

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back inthe winners

circlewith

DANTAFUR(brand of nitrofurantoin)

J racheopharyngitis can lay a horse low fast keep him out of action result in important economic losses to the owner You can return the animal to peak performance quickly with Dantafurreg Administration of Dantafur promptly reverses the course of tracheopharyngitis It relieves coughing and nasal discharge returns the animal to normal breathing

In urinary tract infections Dantafur places imporshytant antibacterial concentrations in the urine within 30 minutes after administration It is effective and practically specific for the infected urinary tract resulting in dramatic cures and animals clinically and bacteriologically free from infection1

DOSAGE Dantafur mdash Tracheopharyngitis (Race Track Cough) mdash for each 225 lbs body weight adshyminister perorally an initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 5 days Urinary Tract Infections mdash for each 225 lbs body weight administer perorally an

initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 7 days and for at least 3 days after urine is sterile SUPPLIED Dantafurmdashoral suspension veterinary Each cc contains 15 mg nitrofurantoin in special suspending medium containing 10 alcohol bottles of 473 cc and 1250 cc As with any potent antibacterial agent administer with caution in cases of marked impairment of renal function safe dosage may be less than usually recommended 1 Witter R S Third Regional Conference on Nitrourans in Veterinary Medicine Atlanta Georgia January 14 1960

Available through your professional veterinary distributor

bdquo J ~ j L Nitrofurans-a unique class ol antimicrobialsorigpnated and developed by

JF^ EATON LABORATORIES laquoato^raquo Division of The Norwich Pharmacal Company ^ NORWICH NEW YORK

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erinarian 3) A I Technician and 4) the Milk Tester This system will proshyvide a means for the dairyman to keepup with his record keeping

Once adequate records are availshyable the veterinarian is ready to tackle the herd health problems In many cases changes must be gradualbecause of the inherent characteristics and attitudes of the client Divisions can be made in order to work on vashyrious aspects of the program and not all aspects need to be carried out at once Five aspects have been adopted in the Herd Health Management Proshygrams in the Wooster Ohio area

1 Mastitis Control 2 Nutrition 3 Fertility and Reproduction 4 Calf Management and Vaccination 5 SanitationThese are discussed below

1 Mastitis Control Mastitis may be defined as an inshy

flammation of the mammary gland reshysulting from the interplay of various etiologic factors their environment andthe host in question From the definishytion it may be assumed that no one causative agent is responsible for masshytitis

Degrees or clinical types of mastitiscan be recognized severe - acute mild shyacute or chronic and subclinical

The severe type can be easily recogshynized and must be treated immediatelyOne recommended treatment would be the administration of Posterior Pituishytary Extract strip out the quarters and administer Liquimycin and sulfa IV with a repeat treatment in 24 hours

The mild and subclinical forms may go unrecognized and therefore some type of screening test should be pershyformed prior to the attachment of the milking machine The most common and easiest test to run is the strip plateor strip cup but some subclinical and even the mild cases may still go unshynoticed The following more elaborate tests may be used to detect these formsof mastitis

California Mastitis Test (CMT)12

Lye Mastitis Test (LMT)4

Michigan Mastitis Test (MMT)4

Liquimycinreg Charles Pfizer amp Co New York NY

SPRING 1967

Whiteside Test9

A Whiteside Test or a Wisconsin Mastitis Test (WMT)12 may be run on bulk tanks to pick up the presence of mastitis in the herd

Further laboratory tests can be conshyducted on sterily collected milk samshyples

Culturemdashstreaking on BAP to obshytain isolation and tentative identishyfication

Catalase Test12mdashbased on the presshyence of catalase contained in sershyum white blood cells epithelial cells colostrum and bacteria

Coagulase Testmdashused to determine Staphoylococcus pathogenicity

Mastitis caused by infestious organshyism can be attributed almost 100 to Streptococcus agalactiia and Staphyshylococcus It has been said that the greatest economic loss is due to Streptococcus agalactiia This organism is easily diagnosed by the use of the Hotis Test and with proper treatment can be eliminated in the cow All cows should be tested once a montih for three months During this period the cows should be arranged in a milking seshyquence according to the results of the test The animals producing a positive test are treated by intramammary inshyfusion of 400000 units of penicillin in18cc of sterile distilled water into each quarter One treatment is usually sufshyficient to eradicate the organism The tests are then conducted every three months for the remainder of he yearand if the herd is free of the organismthey are then conducted at 6 month inshytervals1 To back a positive Hotis Testa Camp Test is run in the laboratory to prove or rule out the presence of a partial hemolizing agent

If Staphylococcus is suspected or proven the only treatment which may prove to be satisfactory is systemic treatment because of the location and pathogenic nature of the organism

Needless to say any cow with masshytitis should be placed last in the milkshying line and extra special sanitary preshycautions taken with her and the equipshyment A cow that fails to respond to treatment or has an irreversible fibshyrotic udder should be culled

Infective agents are not the only etiology for mastitis and the practionshy

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er must maintain a keen eye to locate the other causes or possible causes and then have the condition corrected Othshyer etiologies may be improper milking injured teats and environmental 2 Nutrition

Good nutrition is an obvious and efshyfective tool for the progressive Veterishynarian to use in maintaining high proshyducers in a herd In general over half of the animal deaths are due to malnushytrition because inadequate nutrition will decrease the animals resistance to disshyease Nutrition is the cornerstone of success in herd health management and is often an overlooked factor in infertility It has been incriminated in fetal resorption and anestrus or failure to ovulate5

The basic approach would be to work out average requirements for the herd in digestible protein and Total Digestshyible Nutrients (TDN) A ration comshyposed of corn to supply TDN and soy bean oil meal to supply protein can fulfill the respective requirements and is economical Another rich source of protein is urea which can safely be used up to 3 of the ration It is availshyable in two forms 262 and 285 protein equivalents It is extremely cheap as compared to SBOM and the amount of protein derived from it A word of caution must be inserted here and that is to check with your local feed mill to see if they have the capashycity to mix urea into a ration Trace mineralized salt should be fed free choice

Forages and home grown grains should be tested periodically because it has been found that they may be below estimated textbook values3-5 depending on the type and condition of the growshying season

3 Fertility and Reproduction Fertility checks proper breeding and

a complete obstetrical program in the herd attempt to reach a goal of one calf per year from each cow As menshytioned before nutrition is a prime facshytor in fertility Once it is adequate a successful reproductive program can be launched

A cow should be palpated rectally 30 to 45 days after freshening to deshy

termine if uterine pathology is present or if the animal is ready to be bred on the next heat If pathology is present as indicated by an enlarged flaccid uterus that lacks tone the uterus should be infused with 4 million units of penicillin and 5 grams streptomycin combination mixed with 20cc of Utoshynex (2 mgm ethinyl estradiol and 20 mgm nitrofurathiazide) A cow that is bred on the heat after palpation would place the breeding date approximately 60 days after freshening The cow is then checked at 45-60 days after breedshying to determine if conception has ocshycurred and again prior to being dried off to detect any possible fetal resorpshytion or mummification5 The 45-60 day post breeding check is done to minimize lost time if conception did not occur on the initial breeding or if the fershytilized ova was lost and subsequent heat periods were missed

To aid the student and the clinician in palpating an approximate set of measurements of the whole bulge of the amniotic sac has been proposed

hens egg 40 days baseball 50 days softball 60 days volleyball 70 days basketball 80 days

Additional criteria can be used to apshyproximate the length of the pregnancy

35-60 days mdash slipping of the fetal membranes

85-90 days mdash fremitis of the midshydle uterine artery

110-120 days mdash presence of cotelyshydons

When following a regular program of rectal palpation abnormal conditions can be detected before they become irshyreversible Regular rectal palpation will clearly define the ovarian activity With this method of diagnosis expensive problem cows can be culled from the milk line or treated in an attempt to correct the difficulty In this program an accurate up to date set of records is essential

4 Calf Management and Vaccination This phase begins before the calf is

dropped The cow should be moved to a special maternity stall which is built to accommodate one cow very comfortshyably The calving stalls should be

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cleaned and disinfected between occushypants contain adequate clean bedding have good drainage be warm and have good ventilation The bedding should be changed periodically during the occupants tenure When the calf is dropped the umbilicus should be swabbed with a tincture of iodine and the fetal membranes removed before the cow can ingest them By performshying these simple tasks the new born has been given a much greater chance for survival When the time arrives for the calf to be separated from its mother it should be moved to an inshydividual calf stall When calves are pastthe stage of suckling one another theycan then be moved to clean well bedded and ventilated quarters which will acshycommodate several calves Nutrition is often overlooked in the calf crop in that they are usually fed the formushylated ration of the milking string A separate ration should be calculated forthe calves which is much higher in proshytein to accommodate fast growth The development of the calf during this period will have a direct influence onceshe enters the milk line Before reachshying the age of four months (120 days) calves are vaccinated for Brucellosis TB tested dehorned and have supershynumary teats removed If the owner so desires the calves may be vaccishynated for IBR and BVD at this time

The calf management program proshyvides a total health effort to improve the future milk string of the operashytion The program when followed dilishygently should provide for excellent calf survival with losses less than 1

5 Sanitation Sanitation should be the center of a

herd health program or the hub aroundwhich the other four aspects of the program revolve however it is often the most overlooked or neglected pracshytice in operations today It not only includes the premises but also theanimals and equipment

Junk and trash lying around the farm and especially around the barn and grain storage areas promote rats and mice Junk trash dirt cobwebs inside the barn present physical hazshyards to the animals This material is also a potential health hazard for it may provide the reservoir that disease

SPRING 1967

needs in order to be propagated Improper drainage in the stall area

exercise lot and loafing shed promotethe accumulation of urine and feces and increase the possibility of animal foot problems and other health probshylems Manure is always a disposal probshylem but it must be cleaned daily fromthese areas and not allowd to accumushylate Bedding material must be changedfrequently if the animal urinates or dencates within the resting space Cowson which feces are allowed to accumushylate are health hazards to the herd and show a sign of poor management These cows should be washed and brushed to clean this material from their body

The housing and work areas must have adequate lighting so that the opshyerator and the Veterinarian may havemore ideal conditions in which to work More problem areas can be seen in a well lighted area than in a dark or dimly lit area Ventilation should be perfect so as to promote a healthy atshymosphere for the animals and lessen the possibility of money being lost due to respiratory diseases The principlesof admitting ample fresh air high andremoving the tainted air low will rid the area of moisture and foul ammonia fumes from urine

When designing the ventilation sysshytem it must be remembered that when admitting the fresh air the inlets mustbe planned so that there is one inlet of 60 sq in for every 3i2 - 1000 anishymal units The inlets can be placed at various places around the barn or stable area To eject the air a flue should beconsidered only if the distance from the highest point on the barn roof to the ground is 30 ft or more7 The flue size will be determined by the volume of the area to be evacuated It is imshyportant to place a door in the flue nearthe ceiling This door can be opened inthe summer months to aid in movingthe hot air which accumulates near the ceiling If the distance from the highshyest point on the barn roof to the groundis less than 30 ft a mechanical type system must be employed to evacuate the area The same principle applies in the mechanical systemmdashenter the fresh air high and exit the stale air low The number of mechanical units

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needed should be sufficient to provide a complete change of air six times every hour Sanitation also includes themilking parlor the equipment used and the technique employed in the acshytual milking The incidence of mastitis can increase when strict sanitary proshycedures are not adhered to The udder and especially the teats should be washed thoroughly with a mild soap and one of the iodine antiseptic prepshyarations This procedure not only stimushylates milk let down but reduces the possibility of spreading bacteria and contaminating the milk or other udshyders The inflation cups should be dipped into an iodine preparation inshysuring that the whole cup has been cleansed The cups then should be placed on the teat (after a strip plate test has been run) without allowingthem to touch the ground or other obshyjects such as bedding The wash waterand the water used to dip the teat cupsshould be changed at fifteen cow in-

This article is submitted due to interest shown by many and with the firm belief that Herd Health Management is the future of large anishymal practice The article was condensed from a paper prepared by Jack Leite for Dr Line-rode as part of the requirement for VeterinaryPreventive Medicine 740 Much of what is outshylined in this article comes from experience gained on field trips to Wooster Ohio area where herd health management programs are being conducted in five private dairy herds with the cooperation and participation of Drs Don Noah and Robert Mairs

1 A Syllabus on the Bovine Mammary Gland in Health amp Disease Department of Clinishycal Pathology School of Veterinary Medishycine University of California Davis Calishyfornia Schalm OW

2 Bishop J P amp Linerode PA Dairy Herd Health Management Record System Ohio State University 1967

3 Coppock CE amp Tyrell HE Feeding Recshyommendations for Lactating Cows Modern Veterinary Practice vol 48 1 January 1967

4 Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio

3 Drewry GH The Total Program Approachto Herd Health Management Modern Vetshyerinary Practice vol 48 2 February 1967

6 Guss Samuel B Milking Machines and Mastitis Modern Veterinary Practice vol 45 12 October 15 1964

7 Helwig John H Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinshyary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Personal Communication

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tervals throughout the milking proshycedure

The herd health management proshygram does not eliminate the emergencycalls The practitioner should be preshypared for them but the program shouldreduce the frequency of such calls andimproves the environment in which theVeterinarian must work Herd Health Management allows the farmer to proshyduce the greatest quantity of his proshyduct at the highest quality for the least cost A guideline in establishing a herd health program entitled Proshygramming Herd Health can be obshytained from Veterinary Practitioners Counseling Service VM Publishing Inc 144 N Nettleton Street Bonner Springs Kansas This aid to the pracshytitioner is available for Beef or Dairy operations at a nominal fee and may be a worth while investment for any one thinking of doing herd health work

8 Linerode Phillip A Department of Vetershyinary Preventative Medicine College of Vetshyerinary Medicine The Ohio State Universishyty Personal Communication

9 Modern Veterinary Practice vol 15 12 October 15 1964 p 8-62

10 Morrow DA Herd Health Records Corshynell University

11 Rice RE Trends in Large Animal Pracshytice Norden News vol 41 3 1966

12 US Department of Health Education and Welfare Screening Tests for Detection of Abnormal Milk 1965

13 Steere James H Modern Veterinary Pracshytice Reference and Data Service Large Anishymal 4 p A-8-8

14 Veterinary Clinic amp Dairy Dept Cooperashytive Extension Service Michigan State Unishyversity East Lansing Michigan

15 Woelffer EA Modern Veterinary Practice Reference and Data Service Large Animal 4 p A-8-19

YOURE THE DOCTOR (Continued)

Answer This dog had adrenal hyposhycortism or Addisons Disease The diagshynosis was confirmed by performing theThorn Test The preinjection samplecontained 1765 eoscu mm Two hoursafter the injection of ACTH the samshyple contained 1468 eoscu mm After four hours the sample contained 1815eoscu mm Necropsy confirmed thatthe dog had had adrenal hypocortisni

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Florence Rutledge11815 Davis Court Lakewood Ohio 44107Gasow Veterinary Hospital1521 North Woodward

Ave Birmingham Michigan

48011 Small Animal Practice AVMA Chiron Editor

Sigma Gamma DeltaBorden Award Phi Zeta

William R SayleChagrin Falls Ohio 44042Amherst Animal HospitalAmherst Ohio 44001Small Animal Practice AVMA OTS

Intramurals PledgeMaster PresidentStudent Council

Speculum Chiron Gamma Award ClassPresident Merck Award

Richard Soldner 3322 Maize Rd Columbus OhioSpringfield Animal

Hospital36 Warder StreetSpringfield OhioSmall Animal Practice AVMA OTS PhiZeta Exhibit Chairman

Pre-Vet Day

George R SikoraHinckley OhioRichards amp Gebauer

AFBKansas City MoUSAF Base

Veterinarian AVMA Phi Zeta

Chiron SpeculumAlpha Psi Award

Joseph L Wagner6921 Salem Road Cincinnati Ohio 45030Laboratory Animal

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Richard D Whipps1447 Thurell Rd Columbus OhioFort Lewis Spokane WashingtonUS ArmyAVMA Chiron

Business Mgr SpeakersBureau Chairman

William Lee Yakely1309 Cross Street Dover OhioWashington State

University - College ofVeterinary Medicine

Resident AVMA Co-Chairman

Publicity amp Picnic Committee ChairmanLive Surgery ExhibitTreasurer Vice-President OTSChairman Awards

AVMA Auxiliary AwardCommittee MarkMorris Research Fellow

Michael Youshak Huntsburg OhioVeterinary PathologyOhio State University1925 Coffey RoadColumbus OhioPost-Doctoral Graduate

ProgramAVMA President

OTS Phi Zeta PhizerAward Alpha PsiAlumni Award Speculum Chiron Pre-Doctoral FellowPublicity Co-ChairmanPre-Vet Day LiveSurgery ExhibitProgram ChairmanIntramurals

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Intern

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One of our salesmen made his first calls in this

Seems he started calling on veterinarians 40 years ago He didnt think about selling He thought about animals diseases how to cure them or prevent them Hed recomshymend this that or the other of his products that he thought would be most helpful And the veterinarians liked him Still do In fact nowadays hes calling on the sons of some of his original customers And his point of view is pretty much like that of the rest of our salesmen Their average length of service is 16 years When you stay with a company that long you dont exactly sell it Youre part of it

P I T M A N - M O O R E Division of The Dow Chemical Company Midland Michigan 48640

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PRE-VET DAY - 1967By E DAN WOLF Vet Med Ill

Informative educational professionshyally presentedmdashthese were a few of theevaluations expressed by the 510 pershysons who attended Pre-Vet Day 1967

Following registration tour groups of 25-30 people were formed and each group was led by two student guides through Sisson Hall Goss Pathology Laboratory and the Veterinary ClinicThe program consisted of informative speeches and a tour of the College Theofficial College welcome was extended byDr Walter Venzke This was followed by brief descriptions of the various fields of veterinary medicine Dr Roshybert Hamlin education and research Dr D 0 Jones public health Dr BruceWenger small animal practice Dr James Donham and Dr Clyde Purdy large animal practice Dean Krill then explained the academic and personal qualifications for admission to the colshylege

The tour of the college consisted of explanations and displays illustratingthe function of each department Thesewere prepared and presented by the stushydents and included Anatomy mdash Ron Bockbrader and Dave

HenryBacteriology mdash Jim Guenther Robert

Temple and Stan EichelbergerParasitology mdash Scott Anderson and

Dave Farris Physiology and Pharmacology mdash Frank

Pipers and Steve KurtzerPreventive Medicine mdash Tom Cummins

and Dick Smolen Library mdash Sharon Schumann and Ken

Clever

Pathology mdash Tom Burke Mike Wanskyand Bruce McCullough

Small Animal Medicine mdash Bill Sayle andTed Panhuis

Small Animal Surgery mdash Dick Soldner Ralph Urmson and Doug Cbatney

Large Animal Medicine mdash Harold Fershyguson Bill Reynolds and Fred Adams

Large Animal Surgery mdash Dale Duerr Dick Dailey and Dave McDonald

Ambulatory mdash James Booth Ames Alshylen and Gary Bowman

Clinical Pathology mdash Charles McConshynell Jack Zines and Bill Sternecker

Radiology mdash James Syler and Victoria Voith Some of the departmental programs

presented were Evaluation of Various Physiological Parameters Studies on Gnotobiotic Animals The Physical Exshyamination Basic Surgical Equipment Preparation and Common Surgical Sitshyuations Foaling Rumenotomy and GasAnesthesia Equipment

The majority of those attending Pre-Vet Day seemed to be quite interestedand awed by the varied knowledge andthe professional qualifications of the veterinarian

Lunch was served at both Sisson Hall and the Clinic by the Pre-Vet Club Much work was required and several problems had to be overcome to presentto the public the true picture of veterinshyary medicine (Not the least of these problems was presenting the professionshyal aspects of veterinary medicine in a garage) Everyone who worked so hard to present Pre-Vet Day 1967 deshyserves hearty congratulations

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REPORT ON SPEAKERS BUREAUBy RICHARD WHIPPS Vet Med IV This year the Speakers Bureau of

the AVMA Student Chapter has enshyjoyed its most successful year to date The Speakers Bureau was organizedthree years ago in an effort to inform the public of the broad scope of vetershyinary medicine Junior and senior vetshyerinary students have presented our profession to 4-H Clubs AgriculturalClubs and Survey Classes high schoolsand even to elementary school classesEach speaking engagement is usually handled by a team consisting of one senior and one junior with the senior student handling most of the speaking chores A stimulating question-and-anshyswer period follows almost every preshysentation

Student speakers participated in cashyreer-day programs in high schools throughout central Ohio including Coshylumbus Newark Lancaster and Censhyterburg Speakers presented mogtre specshyialized topics within the realm of vetshyerinary medicine to the Grove City Horsemasters 4-H Club the Wilmingshyton College Agricultural Club and Ag

AVMA NEWS By JUDY SAUERBREI Vet Med Ill This quarter as usual the student

chapter has been very active Pre-Vet Day (held Saturday April 15th) was a success with 510 people registering TheChiron the AVMA sponsored Colshylege of Veterinary Medicine yearbook has been mailed to the publishers and will be delivered to the student body byearly June The very active Speakers Bureau will continue to fulfill requestsfor guest speakers received throughoutthe summer New chairman of this comshymittee will be senior Tom Cummins Also this summer the Live Surgery exshyhibit which is presently at the Center of Science and Industry will be movedto Cincinnati for the Hamilton County Fair and then back to Columbus for The Ohio State Fair in August-Septemshyber

Members have enjoyed some very inshyteresting and informative programsthis quarter including a fine talk by ColScott Radcliff of the Ohio State Patrol

Survey classes and the Central Ohio Cocker Spaniel Club Topics for discusshysion included careers in veterinary medshyicine latest theories and developments in our profession various aspects ofveterinary preventive medicine and therole of the veterinarian in aerospace medicine The record for the longest distance traveled by student speakersthis year is held by the team who spoketo the Beta Beta Beta biological honorshyary of Marietta College

As chairman of the Speakers Bushyreau I would like to thank all the stushydents who served as speakers this yearEach person served his profession wellI am certain that the outreach of the Speakers Bureau will continue to grow as it presents the expanding field of veterinary medicine to the general pubshylic whose knowledge of our profession is in too many instances sadly lackingI would also like to express a specialthanks to Dr Donald Gisler of our facshyulty for giving his time and talents so that our presentations could be of the best possible quality

on Traffic Accidents and a large anishymal panel Members of this panel wereDr Albert Gabel of the OSU Veterinshyary Clinic Dr D G Miller SugarcreekDr Warren Amling London Dr Ed Kennedy Miamiville Dr Donald Moss-burger Bloomingburg Ohio

Other events for members of Student Chapter of AVMA included the Anshynual Awards Banquet on May 19th atthe Grandview Inn and the Spring Picshynic held on May 24th at Big Bear Farms

At the last meeting of the Student Chapter for Spring Quarter 1967 elecshytion of officers was held New officers for the academic year of 1967-68 will be President - Tom Hickey President-elect - Dick Hersman Vice President shyRalph Urmson Secretary - Sharon Schuman Treasurer - Bruce McCullocih These new officers have the great reshysponsibility of continuing to maintain the high standards of leadership exhibshyited by their predecessors

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Ohio State Fair Veterinary Medicine ExhibitBy DAVE ZIMMERMAN Vet Med Ill

For quite a few years the Ohio StateUniversity Student Chapter of the AVMA has presented an informative exhibit concerning veterinary medicineat the Ohio State Fair Last year this project took on a much wider scope Forthe first time live surgery was pershyformed in a modern portable surgical operating room Large pleriglass winshydows and closed circuit television enshyhanced the vantage point of the viewshying public

Again this summer the project will be presented at the Ohio State Fair Present plans call for two surgical proshycedures to be performed daily bylicensed and academy practicing veterishynarians representing their local acadeshymies with narration by students Talks

demonstrations and movies presentingthe complete and varied field of veterishynary medicine will round out the daily program

The purpose of the exhibit is to edushycate the public as to the wide rangeand high quality of service provided bythe modern veterinary clinic Althoughthis project is presented by the stushydents its aim is recognition of public and private practitioners through pubshylic exposure and education All demonshystrations will be presented in the proshyfessional and exacting way that modernveterinary medicine is practiced We feel certain that after a person has witshynessed the procedures presented he willbe much more aware of the ability posshysessed by his veterinarian

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Canine Research Projects SupportedBy The Columbus Collie Club

The Columbus Collie Club donated $3000 to the Ohio State University Vetshyerinary Medicine to be used in Canine research projects The grant was dishyvided among the following projectswhich will be conducted between June 1967 and June 1968 by seniors in the college

Richard Kight Tom Cummins Bob Smatt Dick Flinn L Joe Starcher

FULL THICKNESS BONE GRAPHS IN THE CANINE Seniors Tom Cumshymins Dick Flinn Gene Hofacre Bob Smatt Advisor Dr Richard Rudy

Full thickness bone graphs will be employed in the femur and radius of mature 25-40 pound beagle type dogsThe periosteum of the femur will be inshycised and elevated and the shaft transhysected proximally and distally and thenremoved The shaft will then be splitlongitudinally with care being taken to preserve the endosteum One-half will be discarded the other replaced in its former position The periosteum will beclosed Fixation will consist of an intrashymedullary pin and orthopedic wire Onthe anterior limb the radius will be exshyposed the periosteum split and eleshyvated A 25 cm piece of radius will then be removed Prior to this procedshyure an incision will have been made at the distal portion of the 7th rib and a

5 cm piece of rib removed with the periosteum intact This piece will be cut in half transversely The two secshytions side by side will be secured in theradial defect A Kirsthner splint andorthopedic wire will be used for fixation

The dogs will then be observed for eight weeks and the fracture sites willbe evaluated as to the strength and stashybility of the union

During the course of the study the dogs will be handled as much like acshytual clinical cases as possible Strict aseptic procedures will be carried out and the dogs will be adequately medishycated as would a clinical case

If shown to be successful the typeof graph described above may be utilshyized clinically in restoration of the conshytinuity of bones too severely fractured to be reduced by simpler and convenshytional techniques

QUANTITATIVE DETERMINAshyTION OF CORTICOSTEROIDS PROshyDUCED BY THE ADRENAL CORshyTEX Senior L Joe Starcher Advisshyors Dr Philip W Murdick Dr Edshyward F Donovan

From the results of this project it ishoped that the normal canine corticosshyteroid levels can be determined and a routine testing procedure established Itis possible that such a test would be asuseful as the blood test urinalysis andfecal examination when a complete exshyamination of a dog is done

A METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE RESIN-SPONGE TRIIODOTHROshyNINE UPTAKE TECHNIQUE IN DEshyTECTING THYROID FUNCTION OF THE DOG Senior Victoria L Voith Advisor Dr Walter Lobe

This experiment entails keeping twelve dogs-four in euthyroid four in hypothyroid and four in hyperthyroid states Blood samples will be drawn bishyweekly for three weeks and used to pershyform the resin-sponge triiodothyronine uptake test When radioactive iodine labeled triiodothyronine (T-3) is added

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to a serum sample it first saturates the It is unlikely although possible that unoccupied thyroid-binding sites on the practitioner will perform this tech-Thyroid Binding Protein (TBP) The nique himself but the blood sample remaining T-3 is taken up by the resin- could easily be sent to a laboratory sponge added to the sample The total equipped to perform such a test amount of T-3 is determined Then afshyter incubation the resin-sponge is CLINICAL EVALUATION OF RE-rinsed free of serum and with it the T-3 NAL F U N C T I O N Senior Dick bound to TBP The radioactivity re- Knight Advisor Dr Robert Candon maining in the resin-sponge is then de- The present clinical laboratory parashytermined The percent of radioactive meters for evaluation of renal function T-3 taken up by the resin-sponge is in- are incomplete and poorly understoodversely proportional to the unsaturated The dog that has renal impairment butsites on the TBG and directly propor- does not show frank clinical evidence of tional to the amount of endogenous thy- impairment is the animal that needs roxine and triiodothyronine circulating clinical outlines This animal is the one

The invitro technique used in this ex- that can be helped the most with earlyperiment has been shown to be an ac- therapy andor prophylactic regimes curate and safe method of assessing The purpose of the study is to define thyroid function in human beings The and evaluate clinical parameters for theexperiment is designed to determine the evaluations of glomerular filtration ratevalidity of this test in detection of the renal plasma flow tubular maximum canine thyroid function Since this tech- and sodium-potassium excretion in nique employs the use of serum and nephretic dogs Then if possible the de-does not expose the dog to radioactive velopment of a simple clinical test to iodine it has the possibilities of becom- accomplish these procedures will be atshying of diagnostic use to the practitioner tempted

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A new concept in controlling the bovine respiratory complex Stress plus respiratory viral agents act as the triggering mechanism for secondary bacterial infection in calves under range conditions during shipment and in the feedlot New Rea-Plex vaccine helps break the triggering pathogenic chain of this respiratory complex in stressed calves by controlling the two most common viral diseasesmdashParainfluenza-3 and IBR One 2 cc dose of Rea-Plex stimulates protection in susceptible cattle against both PI-3 and IBRmdashand offers the advantage of being a tissue culture origin desiccated modified live virus vaccine Safe potent and effective confirmed in field trials by bovine practitioners with no adverse reactions reported in cattle even under severe stress conditions Available 5 and 25 dose vials ^ mNew

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Fort Dodge Laboratories Fort Dodge Iowa

Another significant advancement in veterinary medicine from Fort Dodge

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NIH HEART GRANTBy FRANK PIPERS Vet Med Ill

Mutual interest on the part of a numshyber of research groups on campus conshyceived the idea of synthesizing capabilishyties and efforts with the end result beshying the formation and aquisition of an NIH grant entitled Biology of the Heart Participating in this endeavor are the Department of Veterinary Physhysiology College of Veterinary Medicineand the Departments of Physiology Medicine and Pathology College of Medicine

The two co-principal directors are Drs Smith and Warren There is a six man Steering Committee and approxishymately 20 to 25 professional efforts with an additional 15 to 20 man technical staff

The overall objective is to study allaspects of the normal and failing heartThe principle endeavors of this project will be

1) ultra microscopy of the failing heart

2) metabolism of the failing rat heart

3) bloodflow to visera and peripheral circulation

4) hemodynamics of the horse5) cardiac and renal function in dogs

with heart disease 6) ventricular and atrial activation

processes in cattle 7) uses of the computer in analyzing

electrocardiographic data of varshyious species

The nucleus of the microscopic workis at Starling Loving Hall where thereis an electron microscope The nucleus for macroscopic experimentation is at

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Sisson Hall where the installation of a $200000 facility has just been comshypleted The facility consists of

1) office space and a conference room2) two modern biochemistry laborashy

tories 3) One general research laboratory 4) a catheterization laboratory with

an adjoining dark room5) large animal laboratory with tilt-

table 6) a laboratory animal lab7) large walk-in refrigerator8) small animal holding quarters9) large animal holding quarters

10) mobile laboratory (which contains2 labs equipment area large anishymal holding stocks and a dark room)

The facilities encompass 6000 squarefeet and are located in the southern half of the basement of Sisson Hall

Although this is an interdisciplinary effort there are obvious advantages toour College

1) It will bring equipment and techshynology to our school

2) It will aid in training and teachshying of graduate veterinarians

3) We can glean information from research to apply to a clinical medium

4) We will have prestige from the success of the faculty

5) We should have the ability to atshytract high quality people to comeand study at our College

We are very proud of the developshyment of this facility and we wish it well

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Such encouragement of risky do-it-yourself client competition is not a factor when you use EVA

rysipelas vaccine live culture avirulent) US Patent No 2980586 bull Canadian Patent No 608019

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OMEGA TAU SIGAAA NEWS By RONALD H BOCKBRADER

For all those non believers it can honshyestly be said that Spring has finally arshyrived in all its splendor despite severalfalse attempts to break loose from Winshyters tight grasp Needless to say the brothers of Omega Tau Sigma were eagerly awaiting Spring and met it with great enthusiasm

The first major item of business Spring quarter was the election of ofshyficers for the coming year Those elected were as follows

PresidentmdashDon Heagren Vice PresidentmdashAllen Bryant SecretarymdashRon Bockbrader TreasurermdashRich Hersman Assistant TreasurermdashTom Isaac

THE CHIRONBy DON SANDERS Vet Med Ill

This last year the Student Chapter ofthe AVMA voted to establish a yearshybook for the College of Veterinary Medshyicine The yearbook was named The Chiron The name refers to the centaur in Greek mythology who was renownedfor his skill in Medicine

The yearbook was launched by Florshyence Rutledge as editor Penalized byinexperience and a late start Miss Rutshyledge and the staff managed to meet the

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Sergeant-at-ArmsmdashJerry WolfParliamentarianmdashRalph Urmson ChaplainmdashRalph Broshes Rush ChairmanmdashJim Cobb Social ChairmenmdashJoe Starcher

Dave MacDonald Ron Conklin

House ManagermdashCharles Steinman The Brothers of Omega Tau Sigma

are sincere in thanking the retiring ofshyficers after an outstanding year and a job well done

After a fine intramural basketball season which netted a championship troshyphy OTS has again offered its chalshylenge in intramural events with severaltop softball teams

Socially Spring Quarter was again climaxed by the fabulous Senior Send-off and we say that modestly Of coursethe annual cocktail party at the house for Seniors only preceded the evening affair The party was held at Winding Hollow Country Club and exemplified the theme Regal Elegance A delishycious buffet dinner and drinks followed by dancing to Rick Monroes Quintet truly made Senior Sendoff the best everBrothers Grossi and Gurevitz chairshymen of the event can be commended for their efforts

As Spring Quarter draws to a close and the Seniors depart in pursuit of their goals we sincerely wish the best to them and hope that the Fraternityhas been and will continue to be a reshywarding and enjoyable experience for them

deadline for the publishers This yearshybook a true accomplishment for the editor and her staff will come off the press during the first part of June A few extra copies will be printed in case any alumni wish to purchase copies ($700)

Work has already begun on next years Chiron with Don Sanders as theincoming editor Anyone interested in a copy of the Chiron or interested in adshyvertising in next years issue pleasewrite to Don Sanders at the OSU Vetshyerinary Clinic 2578 Kenney Road Coshylumbus Ohio

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ALPHA PSI NEWS

ALPHA PSI By JAY FORSYTH Vet Med II

At the last meeting of the past quarshyter officers for the coming year were elected Jim Syler who did an outstandshying job as last years president was given the honor of serving another year Tom Burke was elected Vice Presshyident Tom Adams will serve as recordshying secretary Mike Snyder the new treasurer will be aided by Ron Montshygomery as assistant treasurer Dick

JIM ROSS (Continued from page 17)

University In the summer of 1966 he attended graduate school at Baylor Unishyversity College of Medicine Houston Texas

Dr Ross will receive his Master of Science degree in June of 1967 His thesis is entitled Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog Clinical and Physioshylogical Features

Beginning on July 1st 1967 Dr Rosswill be a member of the faculty at Bay-lor University College of Medicine with joint appointments in the departshyments of Physiology and Surgery

While an undergraduate student DrRoss became a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Omega Tau Sigma social frashyternities and of Phi Eta Sigma Gam-

Knight will serve as chief censor Jay Forsyth will act as corresponding secshyretary and Ed Stoughton will managethe house

Spring Quarter started off in greatstyle with a house party Alpha Psi thencombined with OTS and had a great time at Bridgeview Country Club

The speakers meeting for the past quarter included Dr R C Smith who spoke on the problems of setting upand running your own private practiceand Mr Joseph A Fodey Jr of CityNational Bank who spoke to the chapshyter about bankings relationship to theprofessional man

In the past two quarters the athleticteams of Alpha Psi have done well Boththe Freshmen and Sophomores broughthome trophies for their division titles Tuesday and Friday baseball squads arewarming up for title hopes after winshyning their league play despite the losses of Herb Betts with a broken foot and Brad Smith with a dislocated finshyger

Other spring events of Alpha Psi inshycluded the freshman welcome picnic onMay 15 1967 The sharp wit of Dr D0 Jones and the barbequed chicken were enjoyed by all The high point ofspring quarter was Senior Sendoff heldon May 26 1967 at the Hospitality Innat which the yearly awards were preshysented

ma Sigma Delta and Phi Zeta honorshyaries

Dr Ross will have a publication apshypearing in the Current VeterinaryTherapy 1967 (in press) entitled Dishyagnosis and Surgical Correction of Pashytent Ductus Arteriosus and Pulmonic Stenosis in the Dog On March 29th 1967 Dr Ross talked to the Northwesshytern OVMA on the subject Heart disease in small animal medicine He alshyso will talk on Diagnosis and SurgicalCorrection of the Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog at the National AVMA meeting in Dallas Texas in July of this year

Dr Ross is married He has a daughshyter Stephanie and his wife Marcia isexpecting a new arrival in June

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AVAAA FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Three members of the Junior Class

have been awarded AVMA grants for research in areas of veterinary medishycine Jon Bernstein is investigating speshycific renal and cardiovascular problemsHis sponsor Dr Robert Hamlin and the National Institute of Health are furnishing the necessary materials Usshying a radio-isotope technique Bernsteinwill be studying renal function of dogs in congestive heart failure He will deshytermine glomerular filtration rate renalblood flow and electrolyte excretion patterns before and after digitalization

Robert Stuhlman under the sponsorshyship of Dr Walter Loeb is using his horse His advisors are Dr Albert Gabel grant to develop a practical test which and Dr R B Heath Parameters monishyis diagnostic for the presence of hepa- tored will include arterial and venous

oxygen carbon dioxide and blood pH tocellular damage and its extent The respiratory rate and depth (pneumoshybasis of the test involves demonstrating graph) systolic and diastolic blood arginase activity with constant results pressures pulse rate and electrocardio-Roy Zinn will compare the effects of gram The ultimate goal of the project

succmylcholine alone and promazine is to evaluate the safety of intravenouswith succinylcholine on the cardiovascu- succinylcholine as an agent for casting lar and respiratory systems of the and restraint of the horse

QRowth bull gestationLactation

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Youre The DoctorBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

A female spayed basset hound IV2 years old was presented for rabies imshymunization with 5 ml of phenolized rashybies vaccine Five days later she was reshyturned in a semi-comatous condition The owner stated that her appetite waspoor ever since her vaccination On thisparticular morning she refused to rise and could not walk when forced to rise Thorough questioning eliminated the possible ingestion of any toxin

On physical examination the dog wasnon-responsive to stimuli Her anal sphincter was relaxed her pupils weremiotic and her temperature was 95deg The dog had a respiration rate of 40 perminute her heart rate was 30 per minshyute Hydration appeared normal but the dogs extremities were extremely cold Her urinary bladder was emptyand no urine could be obtained by cathshyeterization Peripheral lymph nodes were not enlarged nor were there any enlargements on abdominal palpation

The laboratory work done on the dogshowed that she had a PCV of 50 WBC of 7800 with 36 segs 7 non-segs 50 lymphs and 7 eos Her BUN was 147

mg100 ml creatinine was 6 mg100 ml Na was 131 meqL Cl was 96 meq L and K was 93 meqL Renal blood flow was 68 mlmin

The dog was given extensive treatshyment while hospitalized including perishytoneal dialysis She showed marked imshyprovement and so was sent home with medication seven days after admission Two days after dismissal the dog died

What is your diagnosis Doctor Answer on page 44

UPJOHN AWARDS Dale Duer was presented the Upjohn

Award for the most outstanding seniorin large animal medicine Dale is marshyried and is a member of the A V M A and Omega Tau Sigma Upon graduashytion Dale plans to enter large animal practice in Pennsylvania

Receiving the Upjohn Award for the most outstanding senior in small anishymal medicine was Guy Lockwood Guy is married and a member of the A V M A Omega Tau Sigma and Phi ZetaHe will be entering the U S Army Vetshyerinary Corps upon graduation

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Herd Health Management By JOHN C LEITE Vet Med IV PHILLIP A LINERODE DVM PhD

Herd Health Management is a totalapproach to large animal veterinarymedicine It combines into one programthe principles of preventive medicine and clinical medicine When properly apshyplied it could rejuvenate the Veterinarshyian-Farmer relationship

The herd health approach is based upon increasing a clients productivityinstead of running a salvage operationto keep him in business Ideally herd health management provides the means to secure optimum results from the entire herd The tools and techniquesused in herd health are principles ideasand experiments9 carefully and tactshyfully implemented

Since management is an integral part of the herd health approach it necessitates full cooperation of both the Veterinarian and the Farmer For this reason careful selection of clients for this approach is not only desirablebut absolutely essential Likewise the approach to secure cooperation is difshyferent for each farmer and is up to theingenuity of the Veterinarian The Farmer and the Veterinarian are not the only persons who should be inshyvolved in this approach to maximum production Often overlooked are lay people within the practice area who have special backgrounds information and talents that could help the proshygram The lay persons in this categoryare county extension agents vocationalagriculture teachers artificial insemshyination technicians local feed mill opshyerators and milking machine repair men The combined efforts of all these people can truly result in increased production and more profits for the farmer

It must be pointed out that the proshygram is long range and maximum beneshyfits cannot be gained in fewer than 5 or 6 generations in a herd Client confidence must be complete and full authority must be entrusted to the Veterinarian0 The type of operation is not important it may be dairy beef

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swine sheep or equine the principles remain the same

The contractual arrangements beshytween client and practitioner vary withthe type of program and also the geoshygraphic area and its customs Some methods that have been used are13

1 charge on a straight call basis 2 charge by the hour 3 charge by the herd 4 charge for total herd work and

consultation to be done in a giventime (usually by the month or year)

5 charge a percentage of the inshycrease in net profit made by theuse of your service in herd health management

It would be a waste of time to inshyitiate a herd health program without the client being on some type of herd record keeping system For production Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) or Owner Sample (OS) recshyords could be kept with a preference for DHIA Information from producshytion records will aid greatly in detershymining individuals who are worthy of special attention When production records are combined with health recshyords they become invaluable in selectshying stock for the future Recently Morshyrow10 at Cornell University and Boyd Murray and Beck14 at Michigan State developed health records in the form of a folder with moveable colored tabs which indicate the breeding phase of each individual cow These systems however did not attempt to bring toshygether DHIA production records with health records and calf records Bishopand Linerode2 have developed a record keeping system which provides an allshyin-one record keeping system on an 8x10 inch manila folder A unique feashyture of this folder is color tabs to help the dairyman anticipate heat and to indicate the proper time to beginchallenge feeding This new system canbe used by the 1) Dairyman 2) Vetshy

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back inthe winners

circlewith

DANTAFUR(brand of nitrofurantoin)

J racheopharyngitis can lay a horse low fast keep him out of action result in important economic losses to the owner You can return the animal to peak performance quickly with Dantafurreg Administration of Dantafur promptly reverses the course of tracheopharyngitis It relieves coughing and nasal discharge returns the animal to normal breathing

In urinary tract infections Dantafur places imporshytant antibacterial concentrations in the urine within 30 minutes after administration It is effective and practically specific for the infected urinary tract resulting in dramatic cures and animals clinically and bacteriologically free from infection1

DOSAGE Dantafur mdash Tracheopharyngitis (Race Track Cough) mdash for each 225 lbs body weight adshyminister perorally an initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 5 days Urinary Tract Infections mdash for each 225 lbs body weight administer perorally an

initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 7 days and for at least 3 days after urine is sterile SUPPLIED Dantafurmdashoral suspension veterinary Each cc contains 15 mg nitrofurantoin in special suspending medium containing 10 alcohol bottles of 473 cc and 1250 cc As with any potent antibacterial agent administer with caution in cases of marked impairment of renal function safe dosage may be less than usually recommended 1 Witter R S Third Regional Conference on Nitrourans in Veterinary Medicine Atlanta Georgia January 14 1960

Available through your professional veterinary distributor

bdquo J ~ j L Nitrofurans-a unique class ol antimicrobialsorigpnated and developed by

JF^ EATON LABORATORIES laquoato^raquo Division of The Norwich Pharmacal Company ^ NORWICH NEW YORK

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erinarian 3) A I Technician and 4) the Milk Tester This system will proshyvide a means for the dairyman to keepup with his record keeping

Once adequate records are availshyable the veterinarian is ready to tackle the herd health problems In many cases changes must be gradualbecause of the inherent characteristics and attitudes of the client Divisions can be made in order to work on vashyrious aspects of the program and not all aspects need to be carried out at once Five aspects have been adopted in the Herd Health Management Proshygrams in the Wooster Ohio area

1 Mastitis Control 2 Nutrition 3 Fertility and Reproduction 4 Calf Management and Vaccination 5 SanitationThese are discussed below

1 Mastitis Control Mastitis may be defined as an inshy

flammation of the mammary gland reshysulting from the interplay of various etiologic factors their environment andthe host in question From the definishytion it may be assumed that no one causative agent is responsible for masshytitis

Degrees or clinical types of mastitiscan be recognized severe - acute mild shyacute or chronic and subclinical

The severe type can be easily recogshynized and must be treated immediatelyOne recommended treatment would be the administration of Posterior Pituishytary Extract strip out the quarters and administer Liquimycin and sulfa IV with a repeat treatment in 24 hours

The mild and subclinical forms may go unrecognized and therefore some type of screening test should be pershyformed prior to the attachment of the milking machine The most common and easiest test to run is the strip plateor strip cup but some subclinical and even the mild cases may still go unshynoticed The following more elaborate tests may be used to detect these formsof mastitis

California Mastitis Test (CMT)12

Lye Mastitis Test (LMT)4

Michigan Mastitis Test (MMT)4

Liquimycinreg Charles Pfizer amp Co New York NY

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Whiteside Test9

A Whiteside Test or a Wisconsin Mastitis Test (WMT)12 may be run on bulk tanks to pick up the presence of mastitis in the herd

Further laboratory tests can be conshyducted on sterily collected milk samshyples

Culturemdashstreaking on BAP to obshytain isolation and tentative identishyfication

Catalase Test12mdashbased on the presshyence of catalase contained in sershyum white blood cells epithelial cells colostrum and bacteria

Coagulase Testmdashused to determine Staphoylococcus pathogenicity

Mastitis caused by infestious organshyism can be attributed almost 100 to Streptococcus agalactiia and Staphyshylococcus It has been said that the greatest economic loss is due to Streptococcus agalactiia This organism is easily diagnosed by the use of the Hotis Test and with proper treatment can be eliminated in the cow All cows should be tested once a montih for three months During this period the cows should be arranged in a milking seshyquence according to the results of the test The animals producing a positive test are treated by intramammary inshyfusion of 400000 units of penicillin in18cc of sterile distilled water into each quarter One treatment is usually sufshyficient to eradicate the organism The tests are then conducted every three months for the remainder of he yearand if the herd is free of the organismthey are then conducted at 6 month inshytervals1 To back a positive Hotis Testa Camp Test is run in the laboratory to prove or rule out the presence of a partial hemolizing agent

If Staphylococcus is suspected or proven the only treatment which may prove to be satisfactory is systemic treatment because of the location and pathogenic nature of the organism

Needless to say any cow with masshytitis should be placed last in the milkshying line and extra special sanitary preshycautions taken with her and the equipshyment A cow that fails to respond to treatment or has an irreversible fibshyrotic udder should be culled

Infective agents are not the only etiology for mastitis and the practionshy

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er must maintain a keen eye to locate the other causes or possible causes and then have the condition corrected Othshyer etiologies may be improper milking injured teats and environmental 2 Nutrition

Good nutrition is an obvious and efshyfective tool for the progressive Veterishynarian to use in maintaining high proshyducers in a herd In general over half of the animal deaths are due to malnushytrition because inadequate nutrition will decrease the animals resistance to disshyease Nutrition is the cornerstone of success in herd health management and is often an overlooked factor in infertility It has been incriminated in fetal resorption and anestrus or failure to ovulate5

The basic approach would be to work out average requirements for the herd in digestible protein and Total Digestshyible Nutrients (TDN) A ration comshyposed of corn to supply TDN and soy bean oil meal to supply protein can fulfill the respective requirements and is economical Another rich source of protein is urea which can safely be used up to 3 of the ration It is availshyable in two forms 262 and 285 protein equivalents It is extremely cheap as compared to SBOM and the amount of protein derived from it A word of caution must be inserted here and that is to check with your local feed mill to see if they have the capashycity to mix urea into a ration Trace mineralized salt should be fed free choice

Forages and home grown grains should be tested periodically because it has been found that they may be below estimated textbook values3-5 depending on the type and condition of the growshying season

3 Fertility and Reproduction Fertility checks proper breeding and

a complete obstetrical program in the herd attempt to reach a goal of one calf per year from each cow As menshytioned before nutrition is a prime facshytor in fertility Once it is adequate a successful reproductive program can be launched

A cow should be palpated rectally 30 to 45 days after freshening to deshy

termine if uterine pathology is present or if the animal is ready to be bred on the next heat If pathology is present as indicated by an enlarged flaccid uterus that lacks tone the uterus should be infused with 4 million units of penicillin and 5 grams streptomycin combination mixed with 20cc of Utoshynex (2 mgm ethinyl estradiol and 20 mgm nitrofurathiazide) A cow that is bred on the heat after palpation would place the breeding date approximately 60 days after freshening The cow is then checked at 45-60 days after breedshying to determine if conception has ocshycurred and again prior to being dried off to detect any possible fetal resorpshytion or mummification5 The 45-60 day post breeding check is done to minimize lost time if conception did not occur on the initial breeding or if the fershytilized ova was lost and subsequent heat periods were missed

To aid the student and the clinician in palpating an approximate set of measurements of the whole bulge of the amniotic sac has been proposed

hens egg 40 days baseball 50 days softball 60 days volleyball 70 days basketball 80 days

Additional criteria can be used to apshyproximate the length of the pregnancy

35-60 days mdash slipping of the fetal membranes

85-90 days mdash fremitis of the midshydle uterine artery

110-120 days mdash presence of cotelyshydons

When following a regular program of rectal palpation abnormal conditions can be detected before they become irshyreversible Regular rectal palpation will clearly define the ovarian activity With this method of diagnosis expensive problem cows can be culled from the milk line or treated in an attempt to correct the difficulty In this program an accurate up to date set of records is essential

4 Calf Management and Vaccination This phase begins before the calf is

dropped The cow should be moved to a special maternity stall which is built to accommodate one cow very comfortshyably The calving stalls should be

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cleaned and disinfected between occushypants contain adequate clean bedding have good drainage be warm and have good ventilation The bedding should be changed periodically during the occupants tenure When the calf is dropped the umbilicus should be swabbed with a tincture of iodine and the fetal membranes removed before the cow can ingest them By performshying these simple tasks the new born has been given a much greater chance for survival When the time arrives for the calf to be separated from its mother it should be moved to an inshydividual calf stall When calves are pastthe stage of suckling one another theycan then be moved to clean well bedded and ventilated quarters which will acshycommodate several calves Nutrition is often overlooked in the calf crop in that they are usually fed the formushylated ration of the milking string A separate ration should be calculated forthe calves which is much higher in proshytein to accommodate fast growth The development of the calf during this period will have a direct influence onceshe enters the milk line Before reachshying the age of four months (120 days) calves are vaccinated for Brucellosis TB tested dehorned and have supershynumary teats removed If the owner so desires the calves may be vaccishynated for IBR and BVD at this time

The calf management program proshyvides a total health effort to improve the future milk string of the operashytion The program when followed dilishygently should provide for excellent calf survival with losses less than 1

5 Sanitation Sanitation should be the center of a

herd health program or the hub aroundwhich the other four aspects of the program revolve however it is often the most overlooked or neglected pracshytice in operations today It not only includes the premises but also theanimals and equipment

Junk and trash lying around the farm and especially around the barn and grain storage areas promote rats and mice Junk trash dirt cobwebs inside the barn present physical hazshyards to the animals This material is also a potential health hazard for it may provide the reservoir that disease

SPRING 1967

needs in order to be propagated Improper drainage in the stall area

exercise lot and loafing shed promotethe accumulation of urine and feces and increase the possibility of animal foot problems and other health probshylems Manure is always a disposal probshylem but it must be cleaned daily fromthese areas and not allowd to accumushylate Bedding material must be changedfrequently if the animal urinates or dencates within the resting space Cowson which feces are allowed to accumushylate are health hazards to the herd and show a sign of poor management These cows should be washed and brushed to clean this material from their body

The housing and work areas must have adequate lighting so that the opshyerator and the Veterinarian may havemore ideal conditions in which to work More problem areas can be seen in a well lighted area than in a dark or dimly lit area Ventilation should be perfect so as to promote a healthy atshymosphere for the animals and lessen the possibility of money being lost due to respiratory diseases The principlesof admitting ample fresh air high andremoving the tainted air low will rid the area of moisture and foul ammonia fumes from urine

When designing the ventilation sysshytem it must be remembered that when admitting the fresh air the inlets mustbe planned so that there is one inlet of 60 sq in for every 3i2 - 1000 anishymal units The inlets can be placed at various places around the barn or stable area To eject the air a flue should beconsidered only if the distance from the highest point on the barn roof to the ground is 30 ft or more7 The flue size will be determined by the volume of the area to be evacuated It is imshyportant to place a door in the flue nearthe ceiling This door can be opened inthe summer months to aid in movingthe hot air which accumulates near the ceiling If the distance from the highshyest point on the barn roof to the groundis less than 30 ft a mechanical type system must be employed to evacuate the area The same principle applies in the mechanical systemmdashenter the fresh air high and exit the stale air low The number of mechanical units

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needed should be sufficient to provide a complete change of air six times every hour Sanitation also includes themilking parlor the equipment used and the technique employed in the acshytual milking The incidence of mastitis can increase when strict sanitary proshycedures are not adhered to The udder and especially the teats should be washed thoroughly with a mild soap and one of the iodine antiseptic prepshyarations This procedure not only stimushylates milk let down but reduces the possibility of spreading bacteria and contaminating the milk or other udshyders The inflation cups should be dipped into an iodine preparation inshysuring that the whole cup has been cleansed The cups then should be placed on the teat (after a strip plate test has been run) without allowingthem to touch the ground or other obshyjects such as bedding The wash waterand the water used to dip the teat cupsshould be changed at fifteen cow in-

This article is submitted due to interest shown by many and with the firm belief that Herd Health Management is the future of large anishymal practice The article was condensed from a paper prepared by Jack Leite for Dr Line-rode as part of the requirement for VeterinaryPreventive Medicine 740 Much of what is outshylined in this article comes from experience gained on field trips to Wooster Ohio area where herd health management programs are being conducted in five private dairy herds with the cooperation and participation of Drs Don Noah and Robert Mairs

1 A Syllabus on the Bovine Mammary Gland in Health amp Disease Department of Clinishycal Pathology School of Veterinary Medishycine University of California Davis Calishyfornia Schalm OW

2 Bishop J P amp Linerode PA Dairy Herd Health Management Record System Ohio State University 1967

3 Coppock CE amp Tyrell HE Feeding Recshyommendations for Lactating Cows Modern Veterinary Practice vol 48 1 January 1967

4 Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio

3 Drewry GH The Total Program Approachto Herd Health Management Modern Vetshyerinary Practice vol 48 2 February 1967

6 Guss Samuel B Milking Machines and Mastitis Modern Veterinary Practice vol 45 12 October 15 1964

7 Helwig John H Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinshyary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Personal Communication

44

tervals throughout the milking proshycedure

The herd health management proshygram does not eliminate the emergencycalls The practitioner should be preshypared for them but the program shouldreduce the frequency of such calls andimproves the environment in which theVeterinarian must work Herd Health Management allows the farmer to proshyduce the greatest quantity of his proshyduct at the highest quality for the least cost A guideline in establishing a herd health program entitled Proshygramming Herd Health can be obshytained from Veterinary Practitioners Counseling Service VM Publishing Inc 144 N Nettleton Street Bonner Springs Kansas This aid to the pracshytitioner is available for Beef or Dairy operations at a nominal fee and may be a worth while investment for any one thinking of doing herd health work

8 Linerode Phillip A Department of Vetershyinary Preventative Medicine College of Vetshyerinary Medicine The Ohio State Universishyty Personal Communication

9 Modern Veterinary Practice vol 15 12 October 15 1964 p 8-62

10 Morrow DA Herd Health Records Corshynell University

11 Rice RE Trends in Large Animal Pracshytice Norden News vol 41 3 1966

12 US Department of Health Education and Welfare Screening Tests for Detection of Abnormal Milk 1965

13 Steere James H Modern Veterinary Pracshytice Reference and Data Service Large Anishymal 4 p A-8-8

14 Veterinary Clinic amp Dairy Dept Cooperashytive Extension Service Michigan State Unishyversity East Lansing Michigan

15 Woelffer EA Modern Veterinary Practice Reference and Data Service Large Animal 4 p A-8-19

YOURE THE DOCTOR (Continued)

Answer This dog had adrenal hyposhycortism or Addisons Disease The diagshynosis was confirmed by performing theThorn Test The preinjection samplecontained 1765 eoscu mm Two hoursafter the injection of ACTH the samshyple contained 1468 eoscu mm After four hours the sample contained 1815eoscu mm Necropsy confirmed thatthe dog had had adrenal hypocortisni

THE SPECULUM

One of our salesmen made his first calls in this

Seems he started calling on veterinarians 40 years ago He didnt think about selling He thought about animals diseases how to cure them or prevent them Hed recomshymend this that or the other of his products that he thought would be most helpful And the veterinarians liked him Still do In fact nowadays hes calling on the sons of some of his original customers And his point of view is pretty much like that of the rest of our salesmen Their average length of service is 16 years When you stay with a company that long you dont exactly sell it Youre part of it

P I T M A N - M O O R E Division of The Dow Chemical Company Midland Michigan 48640

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PRE-VET DAY - 1967By E DAN WOLF Vet Med Ill

Informative educational professionshyally presentedmdashthese were a few of theevaluations expressed by the 510 pershysons who attended Pre-Vet Day 1967

Following registration tour groups of 25-30 people were formed and each group was led by two student guides through Sisson Hall Goss Pathology Laboratory and the Veterinary ClinicThe program consisted of informative speeches and a tour of the College Theofficial College welcome was extended byDr Walter Venzke This was followed by brief descriptions of the various fields of veterinary medicine Dr Roshybert Hamlin education and research Dr D 0 Jones public health Dr BruceWenger small animal practice Dr James Donham and Dr Clyde Purdy large animal practice Dean Krill then explained the academic and personal qualifications for admission to the colshylege

The tour of the college consisted of explanations and displays illustratingthe function of each department Thesewere prepared and presented by the stushydents and included Anatomy mdash Ron Bockbrader and Dave

HenryBacteriology mdash Jim Guenther Robert

Temple and Stan EichelbergerParasitology mdash Scott Anderson and

Dave Farris Physiology and Pharmacology mdash Frank

Pipers and Steve KurtzerPreventive Medicine mdash Tom Cummins

and Dick Smolen Library mdash Sharon Schumann and Ken

Clever

Pathology mdash Tom Burke Mike Wanskyand Bruce McCullough

Small Animal Medicine mdash Bill Sayle andTed Panhuis

Small Animal Surgery mdash Dick Soldner Ralph Urmson and Doug Cbatney

Large Animal Medicine mdash Harold Fershyguson Bill Reynolds and Fred Adams

Large Animal Surgery mdash Dale Duerr Dick Dailey and Dave McDonald

Ambulatory mdash James Booth Ames Alshylen and Gary Bowman

Clinical Pathology mdash Charles McConshynell Jack Zines and Bill Sternecker

Radiology mdash James Syler and Victoria Voith Some of the departmental programs

presented were Evaluation of Various Physiological Parameters Studies on Gnotobiotic Animals The Physical Exshyamination Basic Surgical Equipment Preparation and Common Surgical Sitshyuations Foaling Rumenotomy and GasAnesthesia Equipment

The majority of those attending Pre-Vet Day seemed to be quite interestedand awed by the varied knowledge andthe professional qualifications of the veterinarian

Lunch was served at both Sisson Hall and the Clinic by the Pre-Vet Club Much work was required and several problems had to be overcome to presentto the public the true picture of veterinshyary medicine (Not the least of these problems was presenting the professionshyal aspects of veterinary medicine in a garage) Everyone who worked so hard to present Pre-Vet Day 1967 deshyserves hearty congratulations

SPRING 1967 27

REPORT ON SPEAKERS BUREAUBy RICHARD WHIPPS Vet Med IV This year the Speakers Bureau of

the AVMA Student Chapter has enshyjoyed its most successful year to date The Speakers Bureau was organizedthree years ago in an effort to inform the public of the broad scope of vetershyinary medicine Junior and senior vetshyerinary students have presented our profession to 4-H Clubs AgriculturalClubs and Survey Classes high schoolsand even to elementary school classesEach speaking engagement is usually handled by a team consisting of one senior and one junior with the senior student handling most of the speaking chores A stimulating question-and-anshyswer period follows almost every preshysentation

Student speakers participated in cashyreer-day programs in high schools throughout central Ohio including Coshylumbus Newark Lancaster and Censhyterburg Speakers presented mogtre specshyialized topics within the realm of vetshyerinary medicine to the Grove City Horsemasters 4-H Club the Wilmingshyton College Agricultural Club and Ag

AVMA NEWS By JUDY SAUERBREI Vet Med Ill This quarter as usual the student

chapter has been very active Pre-Vet Day (held Saturday April 15th) was a success with 510 people registering TheChiron the AVMA sponsored Colshylege of Veterinary Medicine yearbook has been mailed to the publishers and will be delivered to the student body byearly June The very active Speakers Bureau will continue to fulfill requestsfor guest speakers received throughoutthe summer New chairman of this comshymittee will be senior Tom Cummins Also this summer the Live Surgery exshyhibit which is presently at the Center of Science and Industry will be movedto Cincinnati for the Hamilton County Fair and then back to Columbus for The Ohio State Fair in August-Septemshyber

Members have enjoyed some very inshyteresting and informative programsthis quarter including a fine talk by ColScott Radcliff of the Ohio State Patrol

Survey classes and the Central Ohio Cocker Spaniel Club Topics for discusshysion included careers in veterinary medshyicine latest theories and developments in our profession various aspects ofveterinary preventive medicine and therole of the veterinarian in aerospace medicine The record for the longest distance traveled by student speakersthis year is held by the team who spoketo the Beta Beta Beta biological honorshyary of Marietta College

As chairman of the Speakers Bushyreau I would like to thank all the stushydents who served as speakers this yearEach person served his profession wellI am certain that the outreach of the Speakers Bureau will continue to grow as it presents the expanding field of veterinary medicine to the general pubshylic whose knowledge of our profession is in too many instances sadly lackingI would also like to express a specialthanks to Dr Donald Gisler of our facshyulty for giving his time and talents so that our presentations could be of the best possible quality

on Traffic Accidents and a large anishymal panel Members of this panel wereDr Albert Gabel of the OSU Veterinshyary Clinic Dr D G Miller SugarcreekDr Warren Amling London Dr Ed Kennedy Miamiville Dr Donald Moss-burger Bloomingburg Ohio

Other events for members of Student Chapter of AVMA included the Anshynual Awards Banquet on May 19th atthe Grandview Inn and the Spring Picshynic held on May 24th at Big Bear Farms

At the last meeting of the Student Chapter for Spring Quarter 1967 elecshytion of officers was held New officers for the academic year of 1967-68 will be President - Tom Hickey President-elect - Dick Hersman Vice President shyRalph Urmson Secretary - Sharon Schuman Treasurer - Bruce McCullocih These new officers have the great reshysponsibility of continuing to maintain the high standards of leadership exhibshyited by their predecessors

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Ohio State Fair Veterinary Medicine ExhibitBy DAVE ZIMMERMAN Vet Med Ill

For quite a few years the Ohio StateUniversity Student Chapter of the AVMA has presented an informative exhibit concerning veterinary medicineat the Ohio State Fair Last year this project took on a much wider scope Forthe first time live surgery was pershyformed in a modern portable surgical operating room Large pleriglass winshydows and closed circuit television enshyhanced the vantage point of the viewshying public

Again this summer the project will be presented at the Ohio State Fair Present plans call for two surgical proshycedures to be performed daily bylicensed and academy practicing veterishynarians representing their local acadeshymies with narration by students Talks

demonstrations and movies presentingthe complete and varied field of veterishynary medicine will round out the daily program

The purpose of the exhibit is to edushycate the public as to the wide rangeand high quality of service provided bythe modern veterinary clinic Althoughthis project is presented by the stushydents its aim is recognition of public and private practitioners through pubshylic exposure and education All demonshystrations will be presented in the proshyfessional and exacting way that modernveterinary medicine is practiced We feel certain that after a person has witshynessed the procedures presented he willbe much more aware of the ability posshysessed by his veterinarian

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from from the Ohio State Campus

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Canine Research Projects SupportedBy The Columbus Collie Club

The Columbus Collie Club donated $3000 to the Ohio State University Vetshyerinary Medicine to be used in Canine research projects The grant was dishyvided among the following projectswhich will be conducted between June 1967 and June 1968 by seniors in the college

Richard Kight Tom Cummins Bob Smatt Dick Flinn L Joe Starcher

FULL THICKNESS BONE GRAPHS IN THE CANINE Seniors Tom Cumshymins Dick Flinn Gene Hofacre Bob Smatt Advisor Dr Richard Rudy

Full thickness bone graphs will be employed in the femur and radius of mature 25-40 pound beagle type dogsThe periosteum of the femur will be inshycised and elevated and the shaft transhysected proximally and distally and thenremoved The shaft will then be splitlongitudinally with care being taken to preserve the endosteum One-half will be discarded the other replaced in its former position The periosteum will beclosed Fixation will consist of an intrashymedullary pin and orthopedic wire Onthe anterior limb the radius will be exshyposed the periosteum split and eleshyvated A 25 cm piece of radius will then be removed Prior to this procedshyure an incision will have been made at the distal portion of the 7th rib and a

5 cm piece of rib removed with the periosteum intact This piece will be cut in half transversely The two secshytions side by side will be secured in theradial defect A Kirsthner splint andorthopedic wire will be used for fixation

The dogs will then be observed for eight weeks and the fracture sites willbe evaluated as to the strength and stashybility of the union

During the course of the study the dogs will be handled as much like acshytual clinical cases as possible Strict aseptic procedures will be carried out and the dogs will be adequately medishycated as would a clinical case

If shown to be successful the typeof graph described above may be utilshyized clinically in restoration of the conshytinuity of bones too severely fractured to be reduced by simpler and convenshytional techniques

QUANTITATIVE DETERMINAshyTION OF CORTICOSTEROIDS PROshyDUCED BY THE ADRENAL CORshyTEX Senior L Joe Starcher Advisshyors Dr Philip W Murdick Dr Edshyward F Donovan

From the results of this project it ishoped that the normal canine corticosshyteroid levels can be determined and a routine testing procedure established Itis possible that such a test would be asuseful as the blood test urinalysis andfecal examination when a complete exshyamination of a dog is done

A METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE RESIN-SPONGE TRIIODOTHROshyNINE UPTAKE TECHNIQUE IN DEshyTECTING THYROID FUNCTION OF THE DOG Senior Victoria L Voith Advisor Dr Walter Lobe

This experiment entails keeping twelve dogs-four in euthyroid four in hypothyroid and four in hyperthyroid states Blood samples will be drawn bishyweekly for three weeks and used to pershyform the resin-sponge triiodothyronine uptake test When radioactive iodine labeled triiodothyronine (T-3) is added

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to a serum sample it first saturates the It is unlikely although possible that unoccupied thyroid-binding sites on the practitioner will perform this tech-Thyroid Binding Protein (TBP) The nique himself but the blood sample remaining T-3 is taken up by the resin- could easily be sent to a laboratory sponge added to the sample The total equipped to perform such a test amount of T-3 is determined Then afshyter incubation the resin-sponge is CLINICAL EVALUATION OF RE-rinsed free of serum and with it the T-3 NAL F U N C T I O N Senior Dick bound to TBP The radioactivity re- Knight Advisor Dr Robert Candon maining in the resin-sponge is then de- The present clinical laboratory parashytermined The percent of radioactive meters for evaluation of renal function T-3 taken up by the resin-sponge is in- are incomplete and poorly understoodversely proportional to the unsaturated The dog that has renal impairment butsites on the TBG and directly propor- does not show frank clinical evidence of tional to the amount of endogenous thy- impairment is the animal that needs roxine and triiodothyronine circulating clinical outlines This animal is the one

The invitro technique used in this ex- that can be helped the most with earlyperiment has been shown to be an ac- therapy andor prophylactic regimes curate and safe method of assessing The purpose of the study is to define thyroid function in human beings The and evaluate clinical parameters for theexperiment is designed to determine the evaluations of glomerular filtration ratevalidity of this test in detection of the renal plasma flow tubular maximum canine thyroid function Since this tech- and sodium-potassium excretion in nique employs the use of serum and nephretic dogs Then if possible the de-does not expose the dog to radioactive velopment of a simple clinical test to iodine it has the possibilities of becom- accomplish these procedures will be atshying of diagnostic use to the practitioner tempted

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A new concept in controlling the bovine respiratory complex Stress plus respiratory viral agents act as the triggering mechanism for secondary bacterial infection in calves under range conditions during shipment and in the feedlot New Rea-Plex vaccine helps break the triggering pathogenic chain of this respiratory complex in stressed calves by controlling the two most common viral diseasesmdashParainfluenza-3 and IBR One 2 cc dose of Rea-Plex stimulates protection in susceptible cattle against both PI-3 and IBRmdashand offers the advantage of being a tissue culture origin desiccated modified live virus vaccine Safe potent and effective confirmed in field trials by bovine practitioners with no adverse reactions reported in cattle even under severe stress conditions Available 5 and 25 dose vials ^ mNew

INFECTIOUS BOVINE RHINOTRACHEITISmdashPARAINFLUENZA-3

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Another significant advancement in veterinary medicine from Fort Dodge

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NIH HEART GRANTBy FRANK PIPERS Vet Med Ill

Mutual interest on the part of a numshyber of research groups on campus conshyceived the idea of synthesizing capabilishyties and efforts with the end result beshying the formation and aquisition of an NIH grant entitled Biology of the Heart Participating in this endeavor are the Department of Veterinary Physhysiology College of Veterinary Medicineand the Departments of Physiology Medicine and Pathology College of Medicine

The two co-principal directors are Drs Smith and Warren There is a six man Steering Committee and approxishymately 20 to 25 professional efforts with an additional 15 to 20 man technical staff

The overall objective is to study allaspects of the normal and failing heartThe principle endeavors of this project will be

1) ultra microscopy of the failing heart

2) metabolism of the failing rat heart

3) bloodflow to visera and peripheral circulation

4) hemodynamics of the horse5) cardiac and renal function in dogs

with heart disease 6) ventricular and atrial activation

processes in cattle 7) uses of the computer in analyzing

electrocardiographic data of varshyious species

The nucleus of the microscopic workis at Starling Loving Hall where thereis an electron microscope The nucleus for macroscopic experimentation is at

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Sisson Hall where the installation of a $200000 facility has just been comshypleted The facility consists of

1) office space and a conference room2) two modern biochemistry laborashy

tories 3) One general research laboratory 4) a catheterization laboratory with

an adjoining dark room5) large animal laboratory with tilt-

table 6) a laboratory animal lab7) large walk-in refrigerator8) small animal holding quarters9) large animal holding quarters

10) mobile laboratory (which contains2 labs equipment area large anishymal holding stocks and a dark room)

The facilities encompass 6000 squarefeet and are located in the southern half of the basement of Sisson Hall

Although this is an interdisciplinary effort there are obvious advantages toour College

1) It will bring equipment and techshynology to our school

2) It will aid in training and teachshying of graduate veterinarians

3) We can glean information from research to apply to a clinical medium

4) We will have prestige from the success of the faculty

5) We should have the ability to atshytract high quality people to comeand study at our College

We are very proud of the developshyment of this facility and we wish it well

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Rightfullyreserved forveterinariansEVA meets the highest standards of professional practice in erysipelas prevention programs Sold only by Norden to veterinarians EVA is a live avirulent vaccine which is desiccated for high potency and stability Reconstitution is a precise professional procedure All too often the responsibility for swine herd health programs has been taken out of the hands of the veterinarian by the ready availability of certain biologicals in the drug feed or farm supply store

Such encouragement of risky do-it-yourself client competition is not a factor when you use EVA

rysipelas vaccine live culture avirulent) US Patent No 2980586 bull Canadian Patent No 608019

i IMCDREDEN LABORATORIES

OMEGA TAU SIGAAA NEWS By RONALD H BOCKBRADER

For all those non believers it can honshyestly be said that Spring has finally arshyrived in all its splendor despite severalfalse attempts to break loose from Winshyters tight grasp Needless to say the brothers of Omega Tau Sigma were eagerly awaiting Spring and met it with great enthusiasm

The first major item of business Spring quarter was the election of ofshyficers for the coming year Those elected were as follows

PresidentmdashDon Heagren Vice PresidentmdashAllen Bryant SecretarymdashRon Bockbrader TreasurermdashRich Hersman Assistant TreasurermdashTom Isaac

THE CHIRONBy DON SANDERS Vet Med Ill

This last year the Student Chapter ofthe AVMA voted to establish a yearshybook for the College of Veterinary Medshyicine The yearbook was named The Chiron The name refers to the centaur in Greek mythology who was renownedfor his skill in Medicine

The yearbook was launched by Florshyence Rutledge as editor Penalized byinexperience and a late start Miss Rutshyledge and the staff managed to meet the

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Sergeant-at-ArmsmdashJerry WolfParliamentarianmdashRalph Urmson ChaplainmdashRalph Broshes Rush ChairmanmdashJim Cobb Social ChairmenmdashJoe Starcher

Dave MacDonald Ron Conklin

House ManagermdashCharles Steinman The Brothers of Omega Tau Sigma

are sincere in thanking the retiring ofshyficers after an outstanding year and a job well done

After a fine intramural basketball season which netted a championship troshyphy OTS has again offered its chalshylenge in intramural events with severaltop softball teams

Socially Spring Quarter was again climaxed by the fabulous Senior Send-off and we say that modestly Of coursethe annual cocktail party at the house for Seniors only preceded the evening affair The party was held at Winding Hollow Country Club and exemplified the theme Regal Elegance A delishycious buffet dinner and drinks followed by dancing to Rick Monroes Quintet truly made Senior Sendoff the best everBrothers Grossi and Gurevitz chairshymen of the event can be commended for their efforts

As Spring Quarter draws to a close and the Seniors depart in pursuit of their goals we sincerely wish the best to them and hope that the Fraternityhas been and will continue to be a reshywarding and enjoyable experience for them

deadline for the publishers This yearshybook a true accomplishment for the editor and her staff will come off the press during the first part of June A few extra copies will be printed in case any alumni wish to purchase copies ($700)

Work has already begun on next years Chiron with Don Sanders as theincoming editor Anyone interested in a copy of the Chiron or interested in adshyvertising in next years issue pleasewrite to Don Sanders at the OSU Vetshyerinary Clinic 2578 Kenney Road Coshylumbus Ohio

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ALPHA PSI NEWS

ALPHA PSI By JAY FORSYTH Vet Med II

At the last meeting of the past quarshyter officers for the coming year were elected Jim Syler who did an outstandshying job as last years president was given the honor of serving another year Tom Burke was elected Vice Presshyident Tom Adams will serve as recordshying secretary Mike Snyder the new treasurer will be aided by Ron Montshygomery as assistant treasurer Dick

JIM ROSS (Continued from page 17)

University In the summer of 1966 he attended graduate school at Baylor Unishyversity College of Medicine Houston Texas

Dr Ross will receive his Master of Science degree in June of 1967 His thesis is entitled Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog Clinical and Physioshylogical Features

Beginning on July 1st 1967 Dr Rosswill be a member of the faculty at Bay-lor University College of Medicine with joint appointments in the departshyments of Physiology and Surgery

While an undergraduate student DrRoss became a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Omega Tau Sigma social frashyternities and of Phi Eta Sigma Gam-

Knight will serve as chief censor Jay Forsyth will act as corresponding secshyretary and Ed Stoughton will managethe house

Spring Quarter started off in greatstyle with a house party Alpha Psi thencombined with OTS and had a great time at Bridgeview Country Club

The speakers meeting for the past quarter included Dr R C Smith who spoke on the problems of setting upand running your own private practiceand Mr Joseph A Fodey Jr of CityNational Bank who spoke to the chapshyter about bankings relationship to theprofessional man

In the past two quarters the athleticteams of Alpha Psi have done well Boththe Freshmen and Sophomores broughthome trophies for their division titles Tuesday and Friday baseball squads arewarming up for title hopes after winshyning their league play despite the losses of Herb Betts with a broken foot and Brad Smith with a dislocated finshyger

Other spring events of Alpha Psi inshycluded the freshman welcome picnic onMay 15 1967 The sharp wit of Dr D0 Jones and the barbequed chicken were enjoyed by all The high point ofspring quarter was Senior Sendoff heldon May 26 1967 at the Hospitality Innat which the yearly awards were preshysented

ma Sigma Delta and Phi Zeta honorshyaries

Dr Ross will have a publication apshypearing in the Current VeterinaryTherapy 1967 (in press) entitled Dishyagnosis and Surgical Correction of Pashytent Ductus Arteriosus and Pulmonic Stenosis in the Dog On March 29th 1967 Dr Ross talked to the Northwesshytern OVMA on the subject Heart disease in small animal medicine He alshyso will talk on Diagnosis and SurgicalCorrection of the Patent Ductus Artershyiosus in the Dog at the National AVMA meeting in Dallas Texas in July of this year

Dr Ross is married He has a daughshyter Stephanie and his wife Marcia isexpecting a new arrival in June

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AVAAA FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS Three members of the Junior Class

have been awarded AVMA grants for research in areas of veterinary medishycine Jon Bernstein is investigating speshycific renal and cardiovascular problemsHis sponsor Dr Robert Hamlin and the National Institute of Health are furnishing the necessary materials Usshying a radio-isotope technique Bernsteinwill be studying renal function of dogs in congestive heart failure He will deshytermine glomerular filtration rate renalblood flow and electrolyte excretion patterns before and after digitalization

Robert Stuhlman under the sponsorshyship of Dr Walter Loeb is using his horse His advisors are Dr Albert Gabel grant to develop a practical test which and Dr R B Heath Parameters monishyis diagnostic for the presence of hepa- tored will include arterial and venous

oxygen carbon dioxide and blood pH tocellular damage and its extent The respiratory rate and depth (pneumoshybasis of the test involves demonstrating graph) systolic and diastolic blood arginase activity with constant results pressures pulse rate and electrocardio-Roy Zinn will compare the effects of gram The ultimate goal of the project

succmylcholine alone and promazine is to evaluate the safety of intravenouswith succinylcholine on the cardiovascu- succinylcholine as an agent for casting lar and respiratory systems of the and restraint of the horse

QRowth bull gestationLactation

PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS DIVISION HILL PACKING CO TOPEKA KANSAS

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Youre The DoctorBy JOAN HURLEY Vet Med Ill

A female spayed basset hound IV2 years old was presented for rabies imshymunization with 5 ml of phenolized rashybies vaccine Five days later she was reshyturned in a semi-comatous condition The owner stated that her appetite waspoor ever since her vaccination On thisparticular morning she refused to rise and could not walk when forced to rise Thorough questioning eliminated the possible ingestion of any toxin

On physical examination the dog wasnon-responsive to stimuli Her anal sphincter was relaxed her pupils weremiotic and her temperature was 95deg The dog had a respiration rate of 40 perminute her heart rate was 30 per minshyute Hydration appeared normal but the dogs extremities were extremely cold Her urinary bladder was emptyand no urine could be obtained by cathshyeterization Peripheral lymph nodes were not enlarged nor were there any enlargements on abdominal palpation

The laboratory work done on the dogshowed that she had a PCV of 50 WBC of 7800 with 36 segs 7 non-segs 50 lymphs and 7 eos Her BUN was 147

mg100 ml creatinine was 6 mg100 ml Na was 131 meqL Cl was 96 meq L and K was 93 meqL Renal blood flow was 68 mlmin

The dog was given extensive treatshyment while hospitalized including perishytoneal dialysis She showed marked imshyprovement and so was sent home with medication seven days after admission Two days after dismissal the dog died

What is your diagnosis Doctor Answer on page 44

UPJOHN AWARDS Dale Duer was presented the Upjohn

Award for the most outstanding seniorin large animal medicine Dale is marshyried and is a member of the A V M A and Omega Tau Sigma Upon graduashytion Dale plans to enter large animal practice in Pennsylvania

Receiving the Upjohn Award for the most outstanding senior in small anishymal medicine was Guy Lockwood Guy is married and a member of the A V M A Omega Tau Sigma and Phi ZetaHe will be entering the U S Army Vetshyerinary Corps upon graduation

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Herd Health Management By JOHN C LEITE Vet Med IV PHILLIP A LINERODE DVM PhD

Herd Health Management is a totalapproach to large animal veterinarymedicine It combines into one programthe principles of preventive medicine and clinical medicine When properly apshyplied it could rejuvenate the Veterinarshyian-Farmer relationship

The herd health approach is based upon increasing a clients productivityinstead of running a salvage operationto keep him in business Ideally herd health management provides the means to secure optimum results from the entire herd The tools and techniquesused in herd health are principles ideasand experiments9 carefully and tactshyfully implemented

Since management is an integral part of the herd health approach it necessitates full cooperation of both the Veterinarian and the Farmer For this reason careful selection of clients for this approach is not only desirablebut absolutely essential Likewise the approach to secure cooperation is difshyferent for each farmer and is up to theingenuity of the Veterinarian The Farmer and the Veterinarian are not the only persons who should be inshyvolved in this approach to maximum production Often overlooked are lay people within the practice area who have special backgrounds information and talents that could help the proshygram The lay persons in this categoryare county extension agents vocationalagriculture teachers artificial insemshyination technicians local feed mill opshyerators and milking machine repair men The combined efforts of all these people can truly result in increased production and more profits for the farmer

It must be pointed out that the proshygram is long range and maximum beneshyfits cannot be gained in fewer than 5 or 6 generations in a herd Client confidence must be complete and full authority must be entrusted to the Veterinarian0 The type of operation is not important it may be dairy beef

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swine sheep or equine the principles remain the same

The contractual arrangements beshytween client and practitioner vary withthe type of program and also the geoshygraphic area and its customs Some methods that have been used are13

1 charge on a straight call basis 2 charge by the hour 3 charge by the herd 4 charge for total herd work and

consultation to be done in a giventime (usually by the month or year)

5 charge a percentage of the inshycrease in net profit made by theuse of your service in herd health management

It would be a waste of time to inshyitiate a herd health program without the client being on some type of herd record keeping system For production Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) or Owner Sample (OS) recshyords could be kept with a preference for DHIA Information from producshytion records will aid greatly in detershymining individuals who are worthy of special attention When production records are combined with health recshyords they become invaluable in selectshying stock for the future Recently Morshyrow10 at Cornell University and Boyd Murray and Beck14 at Michigan State developed health records in the form of a folder with moveable colored tabs which indicate the breeding phase of each individual cow These systems however did not attempt to bring toshygether DHIA production records with health records and calf records Bishopand Linerode2 have developed a record keeping system which provides an allshyin-one record keeping system on an 8x10 inch manila folder A unique feashyture of this folder is color tabs to help the dairyman anticipate heat and to indicate the proper time to beginchallenge feeding This new system canbe used by the 1) Dairyman 2) Vetshy

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back inthe winners

circlewith

DANTAFUR(brand of nitrofurantoin)

J racheopharyngitis can lay a horse low fast keep him out of action result in important economic losses to the owner You can return the animal to peak performance quickly with Dantafurreg Administration of Dantafur promptly reverses the course of tracheopharyngitis It relieves coughing and nasal discharge returns the animal to normal breathing

In urinary tract infections Dantafur places imporshytant antibacterial concentrations in the urine within 30 minutes after administration It is effective and practically specific for the infected urinary tract resulting in dramatic cures and animals clinically and bacteriologically free from infection1

DOSAGE Dantafur mdash Tracheopharyngitis (Race Track Cough) mdash for each 225 lbs body weight adshyminister perorally an initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 5 days Urinary Tract Infections mdash for each 225 lbs body weight administer perorally an

initial dose of 30 cc followed by 15 cc at 8 hour intervals Medication should be continued for 7 days and for at least 3 days after urine is sterile SUPPLIED Dantafurmdashoral suspension veterinary Each cc contains 15 mg nitrofurantoin in special suspending medium containing 10 alcohol bottles of 473 cc and 1250 cc As with any potent antibacterial agent administer with caution in cases of marked impairment of renal function safe dosage may be less than usually recommended 1 Witter R S Third Regional Conference on Nitrourans in Veterinary Medicine Atlanta Georgia January 14 1960

Available through your professional veterinary distributor

bdquo J ~ j L Nitrofurans-a unique class ol antimicrobialsorigpnated and developed by

JF^ EATON LABORATORIES laquoato^raquo Division of The Norwich Pharmacal Company ^ NORWICH NEW YORK

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erinarian 3) A I Technician and 4) the Milk Tester This system will proshyvide a means for the dairyman to keepup with his record keeping

Once adequate records are availshyable the veterinarian is ready to tackle the herd health problems In many cases changes must be gradualbecause of the inherent characteristics and attitudes of the client Divisions can be made in order to work on vashyrious aspects of the program and not all aspects need to be carried out at once Five aspects have been adopted in the Herd Health Management Proshygrams in the Wooster Ohio area

1 Mastitis Control 2 Nutrition 3 Fertility and Reproduction 4 Calf Management and Vaccination 5 SanitationThese are discussed below

1 Mastitis Control Mastitis may be defined as an inshy

flammation of the mammary gland reshysulting from the interplay of various etiologic factors their environment andthe host in question From the definishytion it may be assumed that no one causative agent is responsible for masshytitis

Degrees or clinical types of mastitiscan be recognized severe - acute mild shyacute or chronic and subclinical

The severe type can be easily recogshynized and must be treated immediatelyOne recommended treatment would be the administration of Posterior Pituishytary Extract strip out the quarters and administer Liquimycin and sulfa IV with a repeat treatment in 24 hours

The mild and subclinical forms may go unrecognized and therefore some type of screening test should be pershyformed prior to the attachment of the milking machine The most common and easiest test to run is the strip plateor strip cup but some subclinical and even the mild cases may still go unshynoticed The following more elaborate tests may be used to detect these formsof mastitis

California Mastitis Test (CMT)12

Lye Mastitis Test (LMT)4

Michigan Mastitis Test (MMT)4

Liquimycinreg Charles Pfizer amp Co New York NY

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Whiteside Test9

A Whiteside Test or a Wisconsin Mastitis Test (WMT)12 may be run on bulk tanks to pick up the presence of mastitis in the herd

Further laboratory tests can be conshyducted on sterily collected milk samshyples

Culturemdashstreaking on BAP to obshytain isolation and tentative identishyfication

Catalase Test12mdashbased on the presshyence of catalase contained in sershyum white blood cells epithelial cells colostrum and bacteria

Coagulase Testmdashused to determine Staphoylococcus pathogenicity

Mastitis caused by infestious organshyism can be attributed almost 100 to Streptococcus agalactiia and Staphyshylococcus It has been said that the greatest economic loss is due to Streptococcus agalactiia This organism is easily diagnosed by the use of the Hotis Test and with proper treatment can be eliminated in the cow All cows should be tested once a montih for three months During this period the cows should be arranged in a milking seshyquence according to the results of the test The animals producing a positive test are treated by intramammary inshyfusion of 400000 units of penicillin in18cc of sterile distilled water into each quarter One treatment is usually sufshyficient to eradicate the organism The tests are then conducted every three months for the remainder of he yearand if the herd is free of the organismthey are then conducted at 6 month inshytervals1 To back a positive Hotis Testa Camp Test is run in the laboratory to prove or rule out the presence of a partial hemolizing agent

If Staphylococcus is suspected or proven the only treatment which may prove to be satisfactory is systemic treatment because of the location and pathogenic nature of the organism

Needless to say any cow with masshytitis should be placed last in the milkshying line and extra special sanitary preshycautions taken with her and the equipshyment A cow that fails to respond to treatment or has an irreversible fibshyrotic udder should be culled

Infective agents are not the only etiology for mastitis and the practionshy

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er must maintain a keen eye to locate the other causes or possible causes and then have the condition corrected Othshyer etiologies may be improper milking injured teats and environmental 2 Nutrition

Good nutrition is an obvious and efshyfective tool for the progressive Veterishynarian to use in maintaining high proshyducers in a herd In general over half of the animal deaths are due to malnushytrition because inadequate nutrition will decrease the animals resistance to disshyease Nutrition is the cornerstone of success in herd health management and is often an overlooked factor in infertility It has been incriminated in fetal resorption and anestrus or failure to ovulate5

The basic approach would be to work out average requirements for the herd in digestible protein and Total Digestshyible Nutrients (TDN) A ration comshyposed of corn to supply TDN and soy bean oil meal to supply protein can fulfill the respective requirements and is economical Another rich source of protein is urea which can safely be used up to 3 of the ration It is availshyable in two forms 262 and 285 protein equivalents It is extremely cheap as compared to SBOM and the amount of protein derived from it A word of caution must be inserted here and that is to check with your local feed mill to see if they have the capashycity to mix urea into a ration Trace mineralized salt should be fed free choice

Forages and home grown grains should be tested periodically because it has been found that they may be below estimated textbook values3-5 depending on the type and condition of the growshying season

3 Fertility and Reproduction Fertility checks proper breeding and

a complete obstetrical program in the herd attempt to reach a goal of one calf per year from each cow As menshytioned before nutrition is a prime facshytor in fertility Once it is adequate a successful reproductive program can be launched

A cow should be palpated rectally 30 to 45 days after freshening to deshy

termine if uterine pathology is present or if the animal is ready to be bred on the next heat If pathology is present as indicated by an enlarged flaccid uterus that lacks tone the uterus should be infused with 4 million units of penicillin and 5 grams streptomycin combination mixed with 20cc of Utoshynex (2 mgm ethinyl estradiol and 20 mgm nitrofurathiazide) A cow that is bred on the heat after palpation would place the breeding date approximately 60 days after freshening The cow is then checked at 45-60 days after breedshying to determine if conception has ocshycurred and again prior to being dried off to detect any possible fetal resorpshytion or mummification5 The 45-60 day post breeding check is done to minimize lost time if conception did not occur on the initial breeding or if the fershytilized ova was lost and subsequent heat periods were missed

To aid the student and the clinician in palpating an approximate set of measurements of the whole bulge of the amniotic sac has been proposed

hens egg 40 days baseball 50 days softball 60 days volleyball 70 days basketball 80 days

Additional criteria can be used to apshyproximate the length of the pregnancy

35-60 days mdash slipping of the fetal membranes

85-90 days mdash fremitis of the midshydle uterine artery

110-120 days mdash presence of cotelyshydons

When following a regular program of rectal palpation abnormal conditions can be detected before they become irshyreversible Regular rectal palpation will clearly define the ovarian activity With this method of diagnosis expensive problem cows can be culled from the milk line or treated in an attempt to correct the difficulty In this program an accurate up to date set of records is essential

4 Calf Management and Vaccination This phase begins before the calf is

dropped The cow should be moved to a special maternity stall which is built to accommodate one cow very comfortshyably The calving stalls should be

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cleaned and disinfected between occushypants contain adequate clean bedding have good drainage be warm and have good ventilation The bedding should be changed periodically during the occupants tenure When the calf is dropped the umbilicus should be swabbed with a tincture of iodine and the fetal membranes removed before the cow can ingest them By performshying these simple tasks the new born has been given a much greater chance for survival When the time arrives for the calf to be separated from its mother it should be moved to an inshydividual calf stall When calves are pastthe stage of suckling one another theycan then be moved to clean well bedded and ventilated quarters which will acshycommodate several calves Nutrition is often overlooked in the calf crop in that they are usually fed the formushylated ration of the milking string A separate ration should be calculated forthe calves which is much higher in proshytein to accommodate fast growth The development of the calf during this period will have a direct influence onceshe enters the milk line Before reachshying the age of four months (120 days) calves are vaccinated for Brucellosis TB tested dehorned and have supershynumary teats removed If the owner so desires the calves may be vaccishynated for IBR and BVD at this time

The calf management program proshyvides a total health effort to improve the future milk string of the operashytion The program when followed dilishygently should provide for excellent calf survival with losses less than 1

5 Sanitation Sanitation should be the center of a

herd health program or the hub aroundwhich the other four aspects of the program revolve however it is often the most overlooked or neglected pracshytice in operations today It not only includes the premises but also theanimals and equipment

Junk and trash lying around the farm and especially around the barn and grain storage areas promote rats and mice Junk trash dirt cobwebs inside the barn present physical hazshyards to the animals This material is also a potential health hazard for it may provide the reservoir that disease

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needs in order to be propagated Improper drainage in the stall area

exercise lot and loafing shed promotethe accumulation of urine and feces and increase the possibility of animal foot problems and other health probshylems Manure is always a disposal probshylem but it must be cleaned daily fromthese areas and not allowd to accumushylate Bedding material must be changedfrequently if the animal urinates or dencates within the resting space Cowson which feces are allowed to accumushylate are health hazards to the herd and show a sign of poor management These cows should be washed and brushed to clean this material from their body

The housing and work areas must have adequate lighting so that the opshyerator and the Veterinarian may havemore ideal conditions in which to work More problem areas can be seen in a well lighted area than in a dark or dimly lit area Ventilation should be perfect so as to promote a healthy atshymosphere for the animals and lessen the possibility of money being lost due to respiratory diseases The principlesof admitting ample fresh air high andremoving the tainted air low will rid the area of moisture and foul ammonia fumes from urine

When designing the ventilation sysshytem it must be remembered that when admitting the fresh air the inlets mustbe planned so that there is one inlet of 60 sq in for every 3i2 - 1000 anishymal units The inlets can be placed at various places around the barn or stable area To eject the air a flue should beconsidered only if the distance from the highest point on the barn roof to the ground is 30 ft or more7 The flue size will be determined by the volume of the area to be evacuated It is imshyportant to place a door in the flue nearthe ceiling This door can be opened inthe summer months to aid in movingthe hot air which accumulates near the ceiling If the distance from the highshyest point on the barn roof to the groundis less than 30 ft a mechanical type system must be employed to evacuate the area The same principle applies in the mechanical systemmdashenter the fresh air high and exit the stale air low The number of mechanical units

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needed should be sufficient to provide a complete change of air six times every hour Sanitation also includes themilking parlor the equipment used and the technique employed in the acshytual milking The incidence of mastitis can increase when strict sanitary proshycedures are not adhered to The udder and especially the teats should be washed thoroughly with a mild soap and one of the iodine antiseptic prepshyarations This procedure not only stimushylates milk let down but reduces the possibility of spreading bacteria and contaminating the milk or other udshyders The inflation cups should be dipped into an iodine preparation inshysuring that the whole cup has been cleansed The cups then should be placed on the teat (after a strip plate test has been run) without allowingthem to touch the ground or other obshyjects such as bedding The wash waterand the water used to dip the teat cupsshould be changed at fifteen cow in-

This article is submitted due to interest shown by many and with the firm belief that Herd Health Management is the future of large anishymal practice The article was condensed from a paper prepared by Jack Leite for Dr Line-rode as part of the requirement for VeterinaryPreventive Medicine 740 Much of what is outshylined in this article comes from experience gained on field trips to Wooster Ohio area where herd health management programs are being conducted in five private dairy herds with the cooperation and participation of Drs Don Noah and Robert Mairs

1 A Syllabus on the Bovine Mammary Gland in Health amp Disease Department of Clinishycal Pathology School of Veterinary Medishycine University of California Davis Calishyfornia Schalm OW

2 Bishop J P amp Linerode PA Dairy Herd Health Management Record System Ohio State University 1967

3 Coppock CE amp Tyrell HE Feeding Recshyommendations for Lactating Cows Modern Veterinary Practice vol 48 1 January 1967

4 Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio

3 Drewry GH The Total Program Approachto Herd Health Management Modern Vetshyerinary Practice vol 48 2 February 1967

6 Guss Samuel B Milking Machines and Mastitis Modern Veterinary Practice vol 45 12 October 15 1964

7 Helwig John H Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine College of Veterinshyary Medicine The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Personal Communication

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tervals throughout the milking proshycedure

The herd health management proshygram does not eliminate the emergencycalls The practitioner should be preshypared for them but the program shouldreduce the frequency of such calls andimproves the environment in which theVeterinarian must work Herd Health Management allows the farmer to proshyduce the greatest quantity of his proshyduct at the highest quality for the least cost A guideline in establishing a herd health program entitled Proshygramming Herd Health can be obshytained from Veterinary Practitioners Counseling Service VM Publishing Inc 144 N Nettleton Street Bonner Springs Kansas This aid to the pracshytitioner is available for Beef or Dairy operations at a nominal fee and may be a worth while investment for any one thinking of doing herd health work

8 Linerode Phillip A Department of Vetershyinary Preventative Medicine College of Vetshyerinary Medicine The Ohio State Universishyty Personal Communication

9 Modern Veterinary Practice vol 15 12 October 15 1964 p 8-62

10 Morrow DA Herd Health Records Corshynell University

11 Rice RE Trends in Large Animal Pracshytice Norden News vol 41 3 1966

12 US Department of Health Education and Welfare Screening Tests for Detection of Abnormal Milk 1965

13 Steere James H Modern Veterinary Pracshytice Reference and Data Service Large Anishymal 4 p A-8-8

14 Veterinary Clinic amp Dairy Dept Cooperashytive Extension Service Michigan State Unishyversity East Lansing Michigan

15 Woelffer EA Modern Veterinary Practice Reference and Data Service Large Animal 4 p A-8-19

YOURE THE DOCTOR (Continued)

Answer This dog had adrenal hyposhycortism or Addisons Disease The diagshynosis was confirmed by performing theThorn Test The preinjection samplecontained 1765 eoscu mm Two hoursafter the injection of ACTH the samshyple contained 1468 eoscu mm After four hours the sample contained 1815eoscu mm Necropsy confirmed thatthe dog had had adrenal hypocortisni

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