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The Veterinary History Society
VOLUME 17

Volume 17

Issue 1
CONTENTS

Editorial
Can History Teach Us Something?
Bruce V Jones

Papers and Articles
The Establishment of Veterinary Education and the Veterinary Profession in North America
Bruce V Jones

The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies: What’s in a Name?
Alastair A Macdonald

James Beart Simonds. Autobiography – Part 8
An Unusual Horse Purchasing Commission
G R Durrant

A Veterinary Slant on Britain’s Deer Parks Through the Ages
John Fletcher

‘The Complete Farrier and British Sportsman’ Another Veterinary Serial
Anon

Book Review
Mamluks and Animals: Veterinary Medicine in Medieval Islam
by Housni Alkhateeb Shehada

Twentieth-Century Veterinary Lives
by Bruce Vivash Jones

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Issue 2
CONTENTS

Editorial
Who Owns Veterinary History?
Bruce V Jones

Papers and Articles
An Appreciation of Paul Mellon: Lover of Art and Horses
Ian Balding

‘The Cattle Keeper’: Plagiarism in Veterinary Literature
John Clewlow

A Case of Inopportune Timing: The 10th International Veterinary Congress 1914
Bruce V Jones

A Veterinary Appraisal of Robert Burns
Craig Sharp

The Polish Committee of Medical-Veterinary Study in Great Britain
Paul Watkins

It’s All in the Tea Leaves – Predicting the Future
Anon

Book Review
The Making of Modern Anthrax
by James F Stark

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Issue 3
CONTENTS

Editorial
The Wonderful Immensity of London – veterinary interest
Bruce V Jones

Papers and Articles
Dr John Barclay’s Teaching of Comparative Anatomy
Alastair A MacDonald and Colin M Warwick

The Cambridge Society for the Study of Comparative Medicine 1957-1992: An Exercise in ‘One Medicine’
A C Palmer

Who Were the Vets? Vets and Veterinary Practice in England c1830-1890
Abigail Woods and Stephen Matthews

John Gamgee and the International Veterinary Congresses 1863-1930
Bruce V Jones

A History of Avian Medicine and How This Has Gradually Developed Together with Man’s Growing Interest in Ornithology
Brian Coles

The History of the Veterinary History Society
Jean Mann

The Elephant Memorial to Two Notable Veterinary Surgeons
Bruce V Jones

Punching Above Their Weight: The British Veterinary Association 1882-2010
Edward Boden

The Talbot Hound
Anon

Letter
First qualified Veterinarian to Practice in the United States of America
Bruce V Jones

Book Review
A Lot of Loose Ends: A Vet in Africa
by Richard Minor

Obituary
Wolfgang Johannes Jőchle (1927-2013)

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Issue 4
CONTENTS

Editorial
You Start with A B C – alphabets and writing
Bruce V Jones

Papers and Articles
Memorial to a Gentleman and Scholar – O Charnock Bradley
Colin M Warwick, Jill Forrest and Alastair A Macdonald

British Veterinary Periodicals 1828-1928
Bruce V Jones

Horsebread: A Forgotten Food
J Clare Hall

Bovine Obstetrics 1770-2012
Peter Jackson

Veterinarians and Fish Health in the UK: 1890-1990
Ronald J Roberts

Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Ireland in 1912 and the Bullock-Befriending Bard
Trevor Farragher

Bracy Clark’s Model Hoof
Clare Boulton

The First Use of the Title ‘Veterinary Surgeon’
Robin D Bone

We call it catgut – but it’s from sheep
Anon

Book Review
‘A Plaine and Easie Waie to Remedie a Horse’: Equine Medicine in Early Modern England
by Louise Hill Curth

Robert Stordy in Abyssinia. An Extraordinary Veterinary Surgeon
by Bruce Vivash Jones and Clare Boulton

Obituary
Sherwin Alexis Hall (1928-2014)

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