Mepacrine Hydrochloride in the Treatment of Avian Coccidiosis

Abstract

IN a previous communication¹, two experiments were described in which mepacrine hydrochloride appeared to have a beneficial effect in the treatment of acute cæcal coccidiosis of chicks. In two treated groups, each comprising forty chicks, the death-rate was seven compared with twenty-six and twenty-three respectively in control pens of the same number, and it was suggested that this drug might prove a most useful agent in combating avian coccidiosis.