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4000 BCE
Ancient Egypt
Practice of clambering to treat cranial trauma. -
3000 BCE
Mesopotamia
Urlugaledinna named as “expert in healing animals”. -
1800 BCE
India
Salihotra is known as "veterinarian" of horses. -
1750 BCE
Babylonia
Code of Hammurabi defines veterinary fees. -
800 BCE
Greece
Symbol of medicine created by Asclepius, thanks to a story about him killing a snake with a cane and a snake appearing with the herbs needed to treat his friend. -
400 BCE
Greece
Hippocrates “humoral pathology” affects veterinary practice for 2000 years. -
250 BCE
India
King Asoka bans hunting and builds animal clinics. -
343
Greece
Aristoteles treated pathologies associated with animals, which help other in medicine and zoology. -
450
Rome
Vegetius books on veterinary art. -
1565
England
Thomas Blundeville, first major English veterinarian book on horses. -
Italy
Carlo Ruini wrote the first anatomy of the horse book. -
Scotland
Andrew Snape writes the first equine anatomy book in english. -
France
Claude Bourgelat founded Lyon Veterinary School, and four years later the Alfort School. -
England
London Veterinary College founded -
Mexico
First veterinary medicine on the continent founded in August 17, 1853.
