Livestock at Garton Slack 2000 Years Ago

The excavation of an iron-age settlement at Gaton Slack in Yorkshire revealed a large number of animal bones – cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, dogs, goats, red deer and a few rodents. The farm livestock were all smaller than their modern counterparts. Various pathological abnormalities were noted, including arthritis, rickets, healed fracture, distal phalanx distortions and exostoses. Several dental lesions were seen including missing teeth and periodontal disease. 

Barbara Noddle

The Relationship Between Medical and Veterinary Surgeons from Sumer to the Present

A review of the relationship between medicine and veterinary medicine in the ancient world in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Rome. 

P B Adamson

A Veterinary Student’s Experience of the General Strike

During the General Strike of 1926 a number of veterinary students at the Royal Veterinary College enlisted as special constables. This is an account of the recollections of one student – Clifford Formston, later Professor of Surgery at the RVC.

Clifford Formston

The Centenary of the Lincolnshire Veterinary Medical Society

The history of the Lincolnshire Veterinary Medical Society, which was founded in 1883.

J C Hartley