Abstract
Extract
It is a great honour to be invited to address this 1961 Conference of the New Zealand Veterinary Association, but I feel bound to point out that all my studies have been directed to human pharmacology. I have, perhaps quite wrongly, neglected animal pharmacology and I feel that in some respects it may be an impertinence for me to enter, however briefly, a field of which I know comparatively nothing. One of the characters in the Marriage of Figaro states : “Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from otheranimals.” But is it?