DETOXICATED URINE TREATMENT FOR IMPOTENCY
IN STUD BULLS AND STERILITY IN COWS
BY
WYNNE SAYER, B.A., DIP. AGRI. (CANTAB.),
Imperial Agriculturist
AND
L. S. JOSEPH, G.B.V.C.,
Cattle Superintendent, Imperial Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.
[Received for publication on the 16th September, 1936]
(With Plates XXIV & XXV)
When the senior author investigated in 1931 the causes of the gradually
increasing number of cases of impotency in bulls and sterility in cows in the Pusa
Sahiwal herd, he found that most of them were due to the faulty feeding policy
pursued in the past. The rationing was, therefore, entirely changed [Sayer, 1934]
and its excellent effect on both bulls and cows was soon apparent.
The few cases of impotency in bulls and sterility in cows that were not, how-
ever, amenable to the changed rationing were put under the hormone treatment
[Phillip, 1929].
A number of cases of impotency and sterility were given the above treat-
ment quite successfully, out of which two cases are quoted below for illustra-
tion. The method followed here is given below :
DETOXICATION OF URINE FOR INJECTION
Collect in a sterile enamel mug about 100 c.c. of urine from a cow over seven
months in calf. Early morning urine is preferable.
Detoxicate at once.
To each 100 c.c. of urine add 5 c.c. of a 20 per cent solution of sulpho-salicylic
acid.
Shake well for ten minutes to precipitate all proteins.
Allow to stand and pass through a coarse filter paper.
Neutralise or render faintly alkaline to litmus by the addition of bicarbonate
of soda.
Dosage.—10 c.c. of urine per 100 lbs. body-weight injected subcutaneously
behind shoulder daily on four consecutive days. Repeat in three weeks time, if
necessary.
(352)