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Today we’ll talk about Warfarin!

The year is 1920.
Farmers across North America & Canada notice that their cattle 🐮 are haemorrhaging after minor procedures & sometimes spontaneously, causing them to bleed to death. (cont’d)
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1921: Frank Schofield, a Canadian veterinary pathologist, determines that the cattle were ingesting moldy hay made from sweet clover. Only spoiled hay made from sweet clover (grown exclusively in North America) produced the disease . (cont’d)
Schofield separated good clover stalks and moldy clover stalks from the same hay mow, and fed each to a different rabbit 🐰.
The rabbits that ingested the bad stalks died from hemorrhagic illness. The other rabbits remained well . (cont’d)
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