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A Guide to Plant Poisoning of Animals in North America
A Guide to Plant Poisoning of Animals in North America Author:Anthony P. Knight, Richard Walter Clinically specific information for identifying, resolving and preventing plant intoxications in animals. The geographic area involved is North America and the species emphasized are horses, cattle, sheep, goats and other ruminants such as Llamas and Alpacas. A Guide to Plant Poisoning of Animals in North America deals definately with types ... more »of problems such as sudden death, neurologic effects, liver effects, urinary effects, etc. Each chapter contains information of the plant on the habitat, description, principal toxin, clinical,treatment if applicatble and exhaustive references. This is the only resource that approaches these problems in the way that the clinican must. The typical poisoning presents as a fact (dead animal), or a sympton (severe drooling), and tracing the cause is not always easy. The trick is to relate the problem to possible toxins and to relate that information to specific plant types. The organization of this book follows the logic that the clinician uses while other resources approach it from a purely botanical point of view and are basic science oriented.« less