History of the healing professions
Subtitle: parallels between veterinary and medical history
By: edited by A.R. Michell
Contributors: Michell, A. R
Series: The Advancement of veterinary science : the Bicentenary Symposium series -- v. 3
Publisher: CAB International
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Wallingford, Oxon, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Veterinary medicine -- History -- Congresses; Medicine -- History -- Congresses
Notes: Papers from the symposium held in London in 1991

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: Veterinary history: clinical insights into classical texts / R.E. Walker; value: Man, animals and medicine at the time of the founding of the Royal Veterinary College / R. Porter; value: Herbs for herbivores: the prehistory of veterinary medicine / D.E. Allen; value: New drugs from ancient wisdom: approaches to drug discovery using higher plants / N.R. Farnsworth; value: Attitudes to fever / M.J. Kluger; value: Zoonoses and the development of concepts of contagion and infection / L. Wilkinson; value: Medical education in the nineteenth century / H. Ellis; value: Farriers in Georgian England / J. Lane; value: Interactions between human and veterinary medicine: past, present and future / C.W. Schwabe