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Practitioners and The Veterinary Profession Practitioners and The Veterinary Profession
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Disease Prophylaxis Disease Prophylaxis
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Aetiology Aetiology
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Diagnostics Diagnostics
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Specific Illnesses of the Individual Animal Species Specific Illnesses of the Individual Animal Species
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Castration Castration
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Birth Assistance Birth Assistance
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33 Veterinary Medicine
Get accessVeronika Goebel, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich.
Joris Peters studied Biology/Zoology at the University of Ghent, Belgium. He obtained his PhD in Natural Sciences (Archaeozoology) from the University of Ghent, and a Habilitation in Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research, and History of Veterinary Medicine from the LMU Munich (Veterinary Faculty). Since 2000, he holds the Chair of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research, and History of Veterinary Medicine at the LMU Munich and is the director of the Palaeoanatomy Department of the State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy, Munich. He is also laureate of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts, Belgium, and Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute. His main research interests include human–animal–environment relationships in prehistoric times, animal domestication, animal husbandry and breeding in antiquity, and Medieval hippiatry.
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Published:01 April 2014
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Abstract
This chapter examines the history of veterinary medicine in the Classical period. It explains that it was only in Roman times that veterinary medicine gained admission to Classical literature with the works of agricultural writers and suggests that while the theoretical basis of veterinary medicine is human medicine, it was influenced to a much greater degree by empirical knowledge and pre-rational conceptions about the healing of animals in folklore. This chapter discusses the role of Columella in introducing the term medicina veterinaria and explains that the practitioners of veterinary medicine during this time were the magistri pecoris or head herdsmen. It explores the procedures in disease prophylaxis, diagnosis, and therapy and the role of practitioners in birth assistance and castration.
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