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Are We Returning To The Wild West Of Veterinary Medicine?

The days of shady salesmen hawking miracle potions like colic drench and spavin cures with questionable ingredients are long in the past. Or are they?

PUBLISHED

January 23, 2013
2:23 am

WORDS BY

Molly Sorge

Injecting a substance labeled as a veterinary device into the horse intramuscularly is actually using that device as a drug, which is illegal and unethical. Photo by iStock

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Updated
January 23, 2013
2:38 am

Categories:

Horse Care, Veterinary

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