Veterinarian History
reading jornal on vet?med9th Grade Reading Journal: Quarter 1
History of Vet/Med
Article 1:
1. “There are Chinese writing dating back to about 2,500 BC describing diseases of horses, oxen and buffalo. Indian art from 4,000 years ago show men looking after horses and elephants and Ancient Egyptian art showing them caring for their cattle and dogs.”
Thoughts: It is amazing to me that humans, even thousands of years ago have always had a natural instinct to save and/or help injured animals. The Chinese have even practiced documenting and discovering the diseases of their animals, this just shows that the practice of Veterinary Medicine has been around for a very long time.
2. “The Ancient Romans even had a word for those who looked …show more content…
“The mental image of a veterinarian as being a bright and earnest young woman caring for pets is a very recent phenomenon: Most veterinarians graduating from veterinary schools over the last 10 plus years have been women, and most new veterinarians now earn their living taking care of pet dogs, cats, and horses. But women veterinarians were rare as recently as 30 years ago.”
Thoughts: It indeed is very common to have a women as a veterinarian and is usually expected. Women have swarmed the profession, whereas years ago it was unheard of to have women work in this field. I think this aspect of veterinary medicine is beneficial to me personally because if it is more common for women to work in this job than I would fit in with the common statistics.
2. “For that matter, prior to World War II, very few people would consider paying more than a token amount for the medical care of their pets any more than the average person today would consider taking an injured chipmunk to the …show more content…
“Hippocrates (460-370 BCE), the father of medicine, developed principles for medical diagnosis and treatment together with a code of ethics. When the first Ptolemy ruled Egypt, he created a great library of 700,000 rolls at Alexandria, which became a repository for the works of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, and all the writings of the known world, but it was destroyed by a great fire. Galen of Pergamum (129-216), who lived 500 years after Hippocrates, was well educated and studied anatomy, surgery, drugs and Hippocratic medicine. His ideas influenced medical thinking for the next 1500 years”
Thoughts: Hippocrates and Galen of Pergamum were both historic figures that have been looked up too and studied through time. They have made much impact through history and have refined modern medicine. Some time I would enjoy studying them closer.
2. “With development of the printing press, medical knowledge became more widely disseminated and technical advances in science flourished. Advances in medicine occurred in concert with developments in technology. These included the microscope, the stethoscope, anesthetic agents, discoveries in bacteriology, a carbolic acid spray to reduce infection during surgery, the clinical thermometer, blood transfusions, electrocardiography, X-rays, and the
History of Vet/Med
Article 1:
1. “There are Chinese writing dating back to about 2,500 BC describing diseases of horses, oxen and buffalo. Indian art from 4,000 years ago show men looking after horses and elephants and Ancient Egyptian art showing them caring for their cattle and dogs.”
Thoughts: It is amazing to me that humans, even thousands of years ago have always had a natural instinct to save and/or help injured animals. The Chinese have even practiced documenting and discovering the diseases of their animals, this just shows that the practice of Veterinary Medicine has been around for a very long time.
2. “The Ancient Romans even had a word for those who looked …show more content…
“The mental image of a veterinarian as being a bright and earnest young woman caring for pets is a very recent phenomenon: Most veterinarians graduating from veterinary schools over the last 10 plus years have been women, and most new veterinarians now earn their living taking care of pet dogs, cats, and horses. But women veterinarians were rare as recently as 30 years ago.”
Thoughts: It indeed is very common to have a women as a veterinarian and is usually expected. Women have swarmed the profession, whereas years ago it was unheard of to have women work in this field. I think this aspect of veterinary medicine is beneficial to me personally because if it is more common for women to work in this job than I would fit in with the common statistics.
2. “For that matter, prior to World War II, very few people would consider paying more than a token amount for the medical care of their pets any more than the average person today would consider taking an injured chipmunk to the …show more content…
“Hippocrates (460-370 BCE), the father of medicine, developed principles for medical diagnosis and treatment together with a code of ethics. When the first Ptolemy ruled Egypt, he created a great library of 700,000 rolls at Alexandria, which became a repository for the works of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, and all the writings of the known world, but it was destroyed by a great fire. Galen of Pergamum (129-216), who lived 500 years after Hippocrates, was well educated and studied anatomy, surgery, drugs and Hippocratic medicine. His ideas influenced medical thinking for the next 1500 years”
Thoughts: Hippocrates and Galen of Pergamum were both historic figures that have been looked up too and studied through time. They have made much impact through history and have refined modern medicine. Some time I would enjoy studying them closer.
2. “With development of the printing press, medical knowledge became more widely disseminated and technical advances in science flourished. Advances in medicine occurred in concert with developments in technology. These included the microscope, the stethoscope, anesthetic agents, discoveries in bacteriology, a carbolic acid spray to reduce infection during surgery, the clinical thermometer, blood transfusions, electrocardiography, X-rays, and the