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Something Fishy. In Seattle, Zoo Veterinarian Dr. Kenneth Birkley went off to capture elusive, "very nervous" sea otters with a special weapon: tranquilizing pills...
...Metal Hip When Air Force Veterinarian Harry A. Gorman was working for a master's degree at Ohio State University, he designed an all-metal device to replace the hip joint in injured dogs. One of the judges who passed on Colonel Gorman's work was Orthopedic Surgeon Judson Wilson. The artificial joint looked so good and worked so well in dogs that Dr. Wilson decided to try minor design changes that would make it suitable for human patients...
There is still little medical evidence as to how well the pills work. The manufacturers report customer satisfaction in two-thirds to three-fourths of cases, but there is no way of knowing how much of this is due to suggestion. One of the more convincing testimonials: Palm Springs Veterinarian Herman Salk (brother of Vaccine Maker Jonas Salk) reports that Equanil is dandy for neurotic dogs, changes them in a couple of days from biting, man-hating monsters into lovable rovers...
...barn one early evening last week, the Brown Swiss cow was calving for the first time. A small knot of anxious men stood near by. Farm Manager Ivan Feaster, becoming alarmed at the slow process of birth, raced off to call a veterinarian. He was stopped in his tracks by a shout from the barn: "It's all right, Ivan," yelled Farmer Dwight Eisenhower, "don't bother to call." In the stall, the mother cow licked the quivering body of her offspring, a fine bull calf, while the President of the U.S. looked on in beaming approval...
...calf's nose was not running, Joe figured it might have a cold, or, worse yet, be "one of them that just never does eat like he oughta." With the help of his old high-school vocational agriculture teacher, who substitutes in a poor county for a graduate veterinarian, Joe took the steer's temperature, found it four degrees above the normal of 101° Fahrenheit. He and the teacher purged the calf with laxative, hypoed it with penicillin, and in a few days it was back with the other young feeders...