Claude Bourgelat
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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
The National veterinary school of Alfort is a French public institution of scientific research and higher education in veterinary medicine, located in Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne, close to Paris. It
Claude Bourgelat
…followed through on this idea when he co-founded the first two veterinary schools in the world, the École nationale vétérinaire de Lyon in 1761 and the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort in 1765. He founded the veterinary college specifically to combat the cattle plague (also called the rinderpest), and students trained at the Lyon…
The entrance gate