Claude Bourgelat was a French veterinary surgeon. He was a founder of scientifically informed veterinary medicine, and he created the world's first two veterinary schools for professional training.
Medal bearing the image of Claude Bourgelat by Alexis Joseph Depaulis
Monument, Lyon
Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, 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 that can affect different species.
A veterinary technician in Ethiopia shows the owner of an ailing donkey how to sanitize the site of infection.
Fragments of the Kahun Papyrus on veterinary medicine, early second millennium BCE
Manuscript page of Hippiatrica (14th century)
Page from an 18th-century manuscript of Shalihotra Samhita, showing an eye operation on a horse