Author: J. M. and S. Payne
Recent developments in metabolic testing are reviewed in this extensive new survey. The metabolic profile test, widely used in veterinary medicine as a means of diagnosis for disease in animals, is a
counterpoint to similar tests in
human medicine. This book emphasizes the difference. Forhumans, individual abnormalities are important; in animals, the tests are applied on a
group basis, as in herds or groups within herds. The test detects not only clinical and sub-clinical production disease but also indicates such things as lack of exercise, fertility, and limiting factors forgrowth.
