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Discovered the diseases that frequently appear in cattle, dogs, horses, and elephants.
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He described the the hydrothoarx in most swine and cattle and found a dislocation of the hip in a cow.
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Greek Scientist Alcmaeon was the first person to every dissect an animal for scientific purposes.
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In the middle ages people used their ¨pets¨ as protection. Dogs were used as hunters and guards, and cats were used a mice catchers.
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During this time animal medicine was approached from the aspect that it was the exact same as human medicine.
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After watching cattle suffer due to a plague caused by the French herbs, Scientist, Bourgelat, went on a search for a remedy to help save this amazing creatures.
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James Harlan Steele became known as the father of veterinary medicine by accident, but to this day that is what he will always be known as.
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The Lord Mayor of London learned about the poor health of the horses near by and he persuaded all farriers near to to form a fellowship to help heal them.
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Gaston Phoebus wrote a book while he was king of England about diseases in dogs and their treatments.
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An Italian, Ruini Bologna, wrote the first one. Especially known for his work on horse anatomy.
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There are references to an “expert cow doctor” practicing in Virginia as early as 1625
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Before it was seen as a true ¨Profession¨ many people would do this as side job or hobby when they were not working their regular jobs. These included, farriers, blacksmiths, herdsman, and local ¨Witch Doctor´s¨.
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In Lyons, France a Veterinary School was founded by Claude Bourgelat, which is said to have started the veterinary profession.
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Charles Clark is the first known to open up his own practice in the United States.
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In America the first Vet School was the Veterinary College of Philadelphia.
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Aleen Isobel Cust was the first ever identified female Veterinarian. She began her career in Ireland, doing animal surgeries, she was recognized by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
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The first vaccines developed were anthrax vaccine and rabies vaccine.
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Augustus Nathaniel became the first African American known Veterinarian. He graduated from the Veterinary university of Pennsylvania.
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The first written account of veterinarian medicine by the first Buddhist King, Asoka. The writing said, There are two types of medicine: one for humans and one for animals."
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The Veterinary medicine college in Manhattan Kansas at Kansas State University first opened up in 1905
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Veterinarians started adding dogs and cats to their health saving specialty because they were in a decline in business. But it was definitely not a bad idea for it is still a major jib for veterinarians today.
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Two British Governemnt officals decided that other than just treating horses, vets should also begin specializing in the treatment of farm animals.
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Vets have finally been recognized as a medical professional equal to human doctors.
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Luke Gamble is the first famous veterinarian known to travel all over the world just to help animals in need and document the entire thing.
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Chemo was found successful in dogs, that may even help people in the future.
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For ages the Disease Fip ,Feline infectious peritonitis, has been going on and spreading country to country cat to cat. There are two forms, wet and dry. There has never been any kind of working vaccination to help cure the disease. But now our local college is working on it day and night to save the lives of many kittens who have a large life to continue living.
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It has finally been proven that in most cases that a complete removal of a cancerous tumor on an animals will reduce the risk of recurrence of the cancer.
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many women who develop a particular type of breast cancer, the same gene HER2, also appears to be the cause of lung cancer in many dogs. Researchers found that neratinib a drug that has successfully been used to battle human breast cancer might also work for many of the nearly 40,000 dogs in the US that annually develop the most common type of canine lung cancer.
