Veterinary anatomy is the study of the form, construction and development of animals.
The first anatomical institute that we are aware of was founded approximately 300 years BC in the university city of Alexandria in ancient Egypt. Here, famous anatomists such as Herophilus and Erasistratus dissected the bodies of people and described many of their structures. The most influential anatomist of the ancient world is reported to have been a doctor by the name of Galen. He was also a prolific author, who studied anatomy in Alexandria and later worked in Rome. Galen used for the most part animals as models for his anatomical studies of the human.