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The Veterinary History Society
VOLUME 6

Volume 6

Issue 1
CONTENTS

Editorial
Chairman’s Thoughts
John Clewlow

Articles
Employment of Dogs for Military Purposes
John Bleby

Notes on Balling Guns
David Wright

Hunting Vets
Penelope Hunting

The Origins of Virus Research at Pirbright
H H Skinner

Volume 6

Issue 2
CONTENTS

Editorial
The Norman Comben Collection in the Science Museum Library

Articles
The Manufacture and Marketing of Veterinary Products from 1850-1914
Richard Perren

The Veterinary Profession and the RSPCA, The First 50 Years
H E Carter

Slaughtering Methods and Equipment
G Gregory

Book Review
One Voice, A History of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association by C A V Barker and T A Crowley

Volume 6

Issue 3
CONTENTS

Editorial
Veterinary History in Australia
Norman Comben

Articles
Rinderpest in Africa in the Late 1890s
R M Mack

A Faraway Look, Herbert Watkins-Pitchford and Rinderpest 1896-1912
R G Mares

Book Review
A Great British Veterinarian Forgotten, James Beart Simmonds 1810-1904 by Iain Pattison

Vivisection in Historical Perspective ed Nicholas A Rupke

Obituary
Brigadier John Clabby

Volume 6

Issue 4
CONTENTS

Articles
Veterinary History on Stamps
R D Locke

Youatt and Brunel
T K Ewer

Situation Frightful but not Necessarily Fatal. Rabies in 18th Century England
John D Blaisdell

Andrew Snape (1644-1708) and the Beginnings of Veterinary Anatomical Instruction in England
John D Blaisdell

Book Review
The Royal Veterinary College, London. A Bicentenary History
by E Cotchin

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