Word: pigmen
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...milk itself was no great problem. Pfizer's pigmen compounded it scientifically of skimmed cow's milk, fat (such as corn oil), assorted minerals and vitamins, and of course, terramycin. But when they tried to feed "Terralac" to newborn pigs In a sort of incubator, they ran into problems of pig psychology...
Sound Sleepers. The Pfizer Co.'s interest in livestock began with the discovery that its antibiotic, terramycin, when mixed with the feed, increases the growth rate of pigs. At first the Pfizer pigmen tried feeding terramycin to the brood sow, in hopes that some of the strengthening drug would filter down in her milk. This proved impractical; it took too much terramycin. Then Pfizer decided to take the piglets away from their mothers at the age of two days and raise them on synthetic sow's milk spiked with terramycin...
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