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MORTALITIES OF SHEEP AFTER ARSENIC DIPPING
Author(s) -
O'Byrne T.,
Yeast J. C.
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
australian veterinary journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1751-0813
pISSN - 0005-0423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-0813.1960.tb15312.x
Subject(s) - arsenic , absorption (acoustics) , alimentary tract , zoology , veterinary medicine , biology , medicine , chemistry , materials science , organic chemistry , composite material
Summary Details are provided of 31 post dipping mortalities in sheep referred to Glenfield. In at least 24 of the cases, one or more factors operated to retard drying of the sheep following dipping, so that it is considered that such actions as dipping long woolled sheep, dipping late in the day, dipping during or with subsequent rain and shedding dipped sheep, are all conducive to excessive percutaneous absorption and post dipping losses. However, experimentally it has not been possible to produce ill effects by dipping under conditions favouring excessive percutaneous absorption only, and it is suggested that toxic absorption of arsenic from the dip may be caused by the combined effects of excessive percutaneous absorption plus absorption from the alimentary tract. Analyses of tissues from, sheep dying subsequent to dipping are included and the interpretation of such analytical figures are discussed.