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
A veterinarian (vet) is a medical professional who practices veterinary medicine. They manage a wide range of health conditions and injuries in non-human animals. Along with this, veterinarians also play a role in animal reproduction, health management, conservation, husbandry and breeding and preventive medicine like nutrition, vaccination and parasitic control as well as biosecurity and zoonotic disease surveillance and prevention.
A veterinarian conducts a surgery on a domestic cat.
Bovine hoof health management by a veterinarian
Veterinarian performing an intradermal test for allergy in a dog (2006)
Ancient Indian text, eye operation on a horse
