Vol. 1 · Field edition
A field formulary
for animals
Match the signs you can see. Find the drug. Get the dose for the animal in front of you — with no signal, and with the page it came from.
Compiled from Papich 5th · Plumb’s 10th · Saunders 4th · The Merck Veterinary Manual 11th · Diseases of Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Pigs and Goats (Elsevier)
The animals it covers
Every condition is tagged to the animals its source names. Pick one and the sign index opens already narrowed to it.
Counts are conditions carrying clinical detail for that animal. Dogs and cats appear because the drug handbooks cover them; the disease index is a large-animal one.
How to read an entry
Every drug and every condition is set out the same way. The entry below is real: the dose, the withdrawal time and the citation are the ones the app carries for oxytetracycline in cattle.
Oxytetracycline
Tetracycline-class bacteriostatic antibiotic
The animal decides the number. Doses are matched to the species the book published them for. Where a book gave no dose for your animal, no number is shown — not another animal’s.
The weight resolves it. Enter the body weight once and every rate in the guide becomes an amount you can draw up.
Withdrawal is never buried. Milk and meat times are marked on the entry. Where the books say nothing, it says so — silence, not clearance.
The page is always there. Book and page on every clinical line, so you can check it against the shelf.
What is in it
What it will not do
The limits are the point. An app that answered past its sources would be inventing clinical judgement and dressing it in the same cited styling as everything else.
It will not predict an outcome. Whether the animal recovers depends on efficacy, resistance, stage and the individual — none of which appear in any of these books. The review checks a plan; it never forecasts one.
It will not show anything it cannot cite. No line appears without its book and page. Where the sources are silent, it prints that in those words.
It will not guess a dose across species. A dog dose is never quietly offered for a cow. Buffalo borrows cattle’s doses because that is what a vet does, and says so on screen.
It is not a diagnosis. It is an index to a shelf of textbooks, ranked by the signs you gave it. The clinical judgement stays yours.
Built to work with nothing
Install it once on the phone and it runs with no signal, no account and no server — the whole index, every dose figure and every citation stored on the device. Nothing you type leaves it.
In Chrome or Edge, use Install in the address bar or the browser menu. On an iPhone, open it in Safari and choose Share → Add to Home Screen. On Android, Menu → Add to home screen. It can also be unzipped to a phone or laptop and opened straight from the file, with no server at all.
Set from
- Papich, Handbook of Veterinary Drugs, 5th edition
- Plumb’s Veterinary Drug Handbook, 10th edition
- Saunders Handbook of Veterinary Drugs, 4th edition
- The Merck Veterinary Manual, 11th edition
- A Textbook of the Diseases of Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Pigs and Goats (Elsevier)
- Chakrabarti, A Textbook of Preventive Veterinary Medicine
Extracts are condensed and attributed, never reproduced whole. The source volumes are not distributed with the app.