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Bleeding For Blackleg

Categories: Diseases of Animals

I have read several articles on blackleg, and it seems strange to me

that no mention is made of an operation that is an absolute preventive,

namely, bleeding in the feet.



The reason that no special mention of bleeding is made is that it is not

now considered the preventive that it once was. Some people appear to

have fair success with it, and others no success at all. The Bureau of

Animal Industry states that the evidence indicates that bleeding,

nerving, roweling or setoning have neither curative nor protective value

and, therefore, should be discarded for vaccination which is now widely

used as a preventive.



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