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IN the course of the first (1935–36) series of experimental investigations of the etiology of the fatal malady, coast disease, which affects sheep confined to the pastures of the calcareous littoral of southern Australia, we observed the dramatic improvement which supervened when sheep that were suffering acute symptoms were dosed with cobalt1.
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Marston, H., Lee, H. Primary Site of the Action of Cobalt in Ruminants. Nature 164, 529–530 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164529b0
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