Think of the type of internship that you had. If you lived in the late 1700's in colonial America, how would this career exist? What would this job be like? Who would have it? What technology would he or she use? Where (geographically) would this job or career exist?
Care for animal traces back to Chinese writings from 4000 to 3000 BC. Chinese people would treat and heal humans and animals with herbs. Also around that time Egyptians valued cats, which made them really important. Indian art traces ack 4000 years show men looking after horses and elephants. Ancient Romans had a word for those who looked after sick animals, "veterinarius." The first veterinary book was written in about AD 500 by a Roman.
By the middle ages and 1700s medicines and medical treatments were still not fully developed. People lived around animals and were somewhat close to them. But a lot of people worked on the land motly that is why they paid more attention to animal like horses and other farm animals. People were developing an awareness that animal health could affect human health. People were also becoming aware of their animals' health because farm animals were inportant for people and their kind of living by farming and hunting. They were also a big investment. In the 1700s, many cases of horse influenza arose in the U.S., and distemper swept through the dogs and then cats, which made veterinary care more imporatant so that the animals could be cured.
The first veterinary school was opened in Europe in the mid 18th century. It was in France, Charles Benoit Vial de St Bel was the first principal of the new college, and the first horse was admitted for treatment in 1793. The Royal Veterinary College was founded in London in 1791. The College first acquired royal patronage from King George IV, and was granted a Charter of Incorporation in 1875. John Haslam, who graduated from the Royal Veterinary College of London, became the U.S's first veterinarian surgeon.
Veterinarians did not really have much professional credibility until the mid- to late 1800s. The first American veterinarian journal to have an impact was the American Veterinarian Review, which Alexandre Liautard established in 1875. In Philadelphia, Robert Jennings helped to found the American Veterinary Association. However most vets concentrated on horses and farm animals and little attention was paid to cats and dogs.
"After World War I, farms became more mechanized and veterinarians had less work with horses and mules. As a way of making a living, they began to specialize more in the care of domestic animals, particularly cats and dogs."
In all this time it was motly man who studied and had this career. It is only in the last 30 years that it has become common for women to become vets, as the same with other careers and professions.
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