Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, disorder and injury in non-human animals. The scope of veterinary medicine is wide, covering all animal species, both domesticated and wild, with a wide range of conditions which can affect different species.

Veterinary medicine is widely practiced, both with and without professional supervision. Professional care is most often led by a veterinary physician (also known as a vet, veterinary surgeon or veterinarian), but also by paraveterinary workers such as veterinary nurses or technicians. This can be augmented by other paraprofessionals with specific specialisms such as animal physiotherapy or dentistry, and species relevant roles such as farriers.

Veterinary science helps human health through the monitoring and control of zoonotic disease (infectious disease transmitted from non-human animals to humans), food safety, and indirectly through human applications from basic medical research. They also help to maintain food supply through livestock health monitoring and treatment, and mental health by keeping pets healthy and long living. Veterinary scientists often collaborate with epidemiologists, and other health or natural scientists depending on type of work. Ethically, veterinarians are usually obliged to look after animal welfare.

The Egyptian "Papyrus of Kahun" (1900 BCE) and Vedic literature in ancient India offer one of the first written records of veterinary medicine. (see also Shalihotra). First Buddhist Emperor of India edicts of Asoka reads: "Everywhere King Piyadasi (Asoka) made two kinds of medicine () available, medicine for people and medicine for animals. Where there were no healing herbs for people and animals, he ordered that they be bought and planted."

1. What field is this about?
2. Do vets treat humans?
3. How about wild animals?
4. Are all veterinary medicine practitioners veterinarians?
5. Who else does it?
6. What are two examples of that?
7. Are there dentists for pets?
8. How early was veterinary medicine documented
9. What countries had these records?
10. Who made medicine available?
11. Just for humans?
12. What kinds of medicines?
13. What is disease that goes from animal to human called?
14. How else do vets help human health directly?
15. Are vets required to look after animals?
16. What's another name for a veterinarian?
17. Is veterinary medicine always supervised professionally?
18. Vets monitor the health of what to keep food supply healthy?
19. Do they treat pet mental problems?
20. Which Indian literature talked about veterinary medicine?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. Veterinary medicine
2. no
3. yes
4. no
5. paraveterinary workers
6. veterinary nurses or technicians
7. yes
8. 1900 BCE
9. Egypt and India
10. King Piyadasi
11. no
12. healing herbs
13. zoonotic disease
14. food safety
15. yes
16. veterinary surgeon
17. no
18. livestock
19. yes
20. Vedic