American veterinary history: before the nineteenth century. 1940

Vet Herit. 2014 Nov;37(2):65-71.

Abstract

With the development of our present day domesticated animals in America (during the 16th and 17th centuries), it was not long before animal diseases became troublesome and destructive (especially during the latter half of the 18th century). Though veterinary medicine became rather firmly established in many European countries (including England) during the latter half of the 18th century, veterinary medicine was relatively nonexistent in America, with only self-styled animal doctors and farriers (with their empirical and often destructive remedies).

Publication types

  • Biography
  • Classical Article
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Animal Diseases / history*
  • Animal Diseases / therapy
  • Animals
  • Animals, Domestic*
  • Colonialism
  • Europe
  • History, 15th Century
  • History, 16th Century
  • History, 17th Century
  • History, 18th Century
  • History, Medieval
  • United States
  • Veterinary Medicine / history*

Personal name as subject

  • B W Bierer