Between 1918 and 1920 an estimated 500 million people contracted an influenza virus no one had seen before. Debate as to its origins continue to this day. Some hypothesize that it started in the Far East. Others say the first case was in Kansas or in a US Army camp in France. Pathologists and epidemiologists agree […]
Warning! This Article Contains Graphic Wound Images. Viewer Discretion Is Advised. Meet Reggie. He’s one of those cats you just have to love. He’s a neutered male about three years old. He has a really great, laid back personality. He lives out in the country in a nice little house with several of his employees. […]
It was 1991 and I was a senior veterinary student at the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine’s Large Animal Hospital. I was standing in a stall “attending” the birth of a foal from a thoroughbred mare. She had been working on things for a bit and was making good progress. Suddenly she gave a […]
To really understand leaky gut you have to understand one principle; The inside of your intestines is outside of your body. Look at the picture above as an illustration of how this works. In the picture, there is a pipe passing through an old stone bridge. The stones in the bridge represent the cells in your […]
One day, decades ago, I was pregnancy checking a couple of hundred holsteins in a blizzard. It was a really cold, miserable day but at least one arm was warm (one of the few perks of being a dairy vet). On that particular day I was coughing my brains out. It seemed I’d been coughing like […]
This past January an unusual thing happened…My wife and I took a vacation! For the past couple of decades, I’ve been the Lone Ranger in my veterinary practice. My wife is also flying solo in her midwifery practice. So when I heard the word Vacation, I assumed it was some sort of obscure thing other people did […]
About twenty five years ago I was on a dairy vaccinating a bunch of calves. While I was working, I noticed about 10 men standing together leaning on shovels. I knew most of the guys. So, after I finished up with the calves, I went over to give them a hard time just for fun. “What […]
My little girl was sitting on the couch one afternoon holding her tummy. “I got a bellyache” she said. She then stood up and walked out of the house. Curious, I followed her. She puttered out to the herb garden and grabbed a handful of parsley and started eating it. Half an hour later, the […]
As an herbalist I have, on a regular basis, the opportunity to do something most herbalists don’t get to do. That is, applying herbs to the management of serious wounds. I started managing wounds with herbs many years ago in my veterinary practice and have since shared the things I’ve learned with hundreds of clients that have used […]
Our society of late has become increasingly polar. There is an “all or nothing”, “with us or against us” mentality that seems to pervade every topic of conversation and every aspect of life. It seems everyone is compelled to choose a side and when they do, they pick up the pom-poms of their team’s color […]
