Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine concerned with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in non-human animals. Its scope is wide, covering all
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
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment and palliation of their injury or disease, while promoting their health. Medicine
Veterinary medicine
…Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine concerned with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in non-human animals. Its scope is wide, covering…
The Doctor by Sir Luke Fildes (1891)
Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female physician in the United States graduated from SUNY Upstate (1847)
The Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, fresco by Domenico di Bartolo, 1441–1442