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Originally Posted by prudery
Wikipedia is not anymore reliable than Yahoo at times ... I wish I could find the article I found from Australia---after a couple of glasses of wine---that claimed the arsenic was yet indistinguishable ...
At any rate, the arsenic in the insecticide was ingested---duh, internally as well ...
Arsenic poisoning also produces diarrhea, which Phar Lap did not have prior to his death according to the veterinary reports of the time ......
The 40 hour ingestion was improved upon Phar Lap's then vet Nielsen, who targeted the onset of illness at 48 without modern technology ..
I appreciate the reference, but I am not yet sold ...
Phar Lap is a favorite of mine, and I have a 1933 rare book written by a vet who witnessed the opening of his heart ... He concurs that arsenic was present, but promotes the acute enteritis theory ...
Certainly the arsenic was recognized then, but the latest claim that a " large dose was ingested " does not ---with all the technology---indicate how large and how much was needed to prove fatal .....
I am sticking with the probable cause being Duodenitis-Proximal Jejeunitis--a nearly always fatal bacterial derived enteritis thought to be related to botulism ...
That a buildup of residual and additional toxins like arsenic may have triggered this affliction is very likely ...
In any event, the horse died toxic, and it was a wretched and undeserved death for this outstanding racehorse ...
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"In 2000, equine specialists studying the two necropsies concluded that Phar Lap probably died of duodenitis-proximal jejunitis, an acute bacterial gastroenteritis. It was not until the 1980s that the infection could be formally identified."
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same article
he died in 1932. why is "new info" in 2000 more reliable than "new info" in 2008?