Rat Poison Horse Cure

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

255

Date Released

1980

Length of issue (in feet)

522

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Rat Poison Horse Cure
2. 2Ice Maker
3. 3Gut Laser

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: There’s a particularly nasty blood disease among horses, called navicular disease. It causes veins in the navicular bone to proliferate, weakening it structurally, with resulting lameness. A British vet has discovered a dramatic cure - rat poison. It thins the blood, stopping further veins forming, preventing the bone weakening, curing the lameness.

Researcher Comments

Story also appears in ‘Living Tomorrow No. 303’

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology; Horses; Animal husbandry; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/255

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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