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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 […]

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 […]

By Patrick Jones, DVM In 1928 the world changed. A microbiologist named Alexander Flemming discovered a miracle. The miracle was called penicillin. Penicillin is a chemical produced by the Penecillium mold. The mold doesn’t like to compete with bacteria…so it kills them. Penecillin’s discovery opened the door to more research and antibiotics were born. More and more […]