Who was the 1st vet in the world?

Question

I am really interested in vetenairy so want to know as much about it as i can! So does anyone know who the 1st vet was?

Thankz

Answer 1

St. Francis of Assisi - the patron saint of animals

Answer 2

Hi R.S.

There is no one person recorded as the first what there is though are  scripts from History which provide us with an idea of what Animal Husbandry was like.

I offer as an example the following:

[1] Early Chinese Writings: Traditional Chinese Medicine  was practised before 1766 BC but the first medical text was the Nei Ching Su Wen (Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine), c. 300BC. The Nei Ching detailed the AP system as well as other medical knowledge. Horses were very important and "horse priests" practised their trade from at least 1766 BC. Fairly detailed diagrams of horse anatomy and acupuncture points from China.  It is said that horse anatomy/acupuncture books in China predate human acupuncture maps because horses were so much more valuable than people.

Many texts on veterinary medicine were written in the period 221 BC to 1608 AD.

[2] Ancient Greece: Preserved writings indicate an interest in animal diseases.

[3]Cato (c 200 BC): Roman agricultural writer who recommended the use of olive oil dregs, lupine extract and good wine for sheep scab.

[4] Columella: (c 70 AD) believed  that it was better to get rid of suppuration with the surgeon's knife, rather than with medication, and then to wash the wound with warm ox urine and bind it up with linen bandages soaked in liquid pitch and oil. Even at this early time it was obviously appreciated that an infected wound would not heal without first removing infected tissue.

[5] Gaston Phoebus (1387-8):  in his Le Livre de Chasse, devoted two chapters to the care of hounds. Wounds were not sutured and only bite wounds were treated. These were covered with raw wool drenched in olive oil, the dressings being changed every day for three days. The wound was then left open to the fresh air and the healing effect of the dog's tongue. Rebeca,this would have been a reasonably effective treatment as lanolin (present in raw wool) and oil have an emollient as well as a light anaesthetic and antiseptic effect.

[6] Leonard Mascall 1605:  First Book of Cattle;   advised to 'open the place with an yron, and when it is cut, then shall yet crush forth all the ill humour and matter therein'. He next suggested washing the wound with warm wine to cleanse it and using a mixture of 'Cherpi, (so called in French)', 'tarre' and 'oyle Olive' to 'close the sore therwith'.

Rebeca following are the titles of some early books;

From the1631 edition of The Whole Art of Husbandry byConrad Heresbach.

From the 1676 edition of Markham's Cheap and Good Husbandry.

Gentleman's Farriery (1764), John Bartlet

Last of all Rebeca, 1761:  The first organized teaching on Animal Medicine was in Lyons, France followed soon by similar schools in England, Germany, and other European countries.

Sorry for the long answer but there was no other way.

I tried to be as brief as possable.

CATHORIO

Answer 3

dr. doolittle was the first.

Answer 4

Daniel, who removed the thorn from the lion`s paw :)

Answer 5

I will take a wild guess at Androcles the lion doctor :0)

Predates the Christians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androcles

Answer 6

I'm happy you clarified it as veterinarian instead of veteran. The abbreviation "vet" is used for both titles.

Begin now to learn how to spell veterinary and veterinarian and perhaps the answer will come. I have no idea who may qualify as the first veterinarian.

I would not say Noah either.

Answer 7

He or she started to work long before writing was invented so his or her name was never recorded. Animal husbandry existed before writing.