PARASITIC GASTRITIS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 3

PARASITIC GASTRITIS

TREATMENT FOR SERIOUS SHEEP TROUBLE. DISCOVERY ORIGINATES FROM MASTERTON. ' In the course of an address on the ewe stabilisation plan, given at yesterday’s luncheon of the Masterton Rotary Club by Mr L~. T. Daniell, mention was made of the results of experiments carried out on sheep, following on a talk given at a Rotary Club luncheon about six years ago. Mr Daniell said the speaker on that occasion had stated that milk went through to the fourth stomach of a sheep, though it was not considered to have any medical value at that time. Within an hour of hearing this, Mr Daniell, on his return to his farm, decided to carry out experiments to prove the correctness of this statement. Milk was fed to four sheep, which were killed three minutes afterwards and the milk was found to have reached the fourth stomach. This, Mr Daniell believed, might be of some significance in treating parasitic gastritis, which occurred in the fourth stomach of the sheep and had caused considerable losses for some years past. He followed up his investigations by making representations to the Agricultural Department and the freezing works, with a view to further experiments being carried out. Although milk was not a “killer,” the possibility of it being used as a carrier to get a “killer” into the fourth stomach was investigated. Experiments carried out subsequently in Australia succeeded in establishing that bluestone had similar qualities as milk as a carrier and this, mixed with black leaf 40 was found to be effective in reducing deaths from parasitic gastritis.