Browsing Proceedings of the 44th International Congress of the World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine by Issue Date

Browsing Proceedings of the 44th International Congress of the World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine by Issue Date

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  • Collaboration between the veterinary schools of Utrecht and Onderstepoort - a political history 
    Koolmees, Peter A.; World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine. International Congress (44th : 2020 : Pretoria, South Africa) (Pretoria : World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine, 2020-02)
    Until late in the 19th century, Utrecht University played a very important role in providing academic training for South African students. Professors at Utrecht stressed the Dutch roots of the Boers and supported their ...
  • A brief historical overview of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and its historical relationship with countries in southern Africa 
    Brückner, Gideon; Teissier, Marie; World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine. International Congress (44th : 2020 : Pretoria, South Africa) (Pretoria : World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine, 2020-02)
    The devastating effects of rinderpest in Europe in the 18th century resulted in a call from Professor John Gamgee, of the New Veterinary College of Edinburgh, to the Deans of Veterinary Faculties in Europe for an International ...
  • Reduction of antibiotic use in farm animal and aquaculture production in Norway over the last 30 years 
    Hektoen, Halvor; World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine. International Congress (44th : 2020 : Pretoria, South Africa) (Pretoria : World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine, 2020-02)
    Antibacterial agents were used long before people knew that infections were caused by bacteria, and were described in ancient Egypt, Greece and in the Roman empire. However, in modern medicine the ‘antibiotic revolution’ ...
  • Eminent South African veterinary virologists 
    Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand; World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine. International Congress (44th : 2020 : Pretoria, South Africa) (Pretoria : World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine, 2020-02)
    Virology is a relatively young scientific discipline only recognised at the Onderstepoort institute as a separate science in the mid-1950s by the establishment of an independent Section Virology. Before that, research on ...
  • Puzriš-Dagan : organization of an animal concentration centre during UR III period 
    Alonso, Silvia Nicolás; World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine. International Congress (44th : 2020 : Pretoria, South Africa) (Pretoria : World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine, 2020-02)
    At the end of the 21st century B.C., after the Akkadian Empire collapsed, the political situation in Southern Mesopotamia was tense under the constant pressure of the kingdom of Elam and the destructive incursions of the ...
  • Medunsa : the rise and demise of South Africa’s second veterinary faculty 
    Owen, Neville C.; World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine. International Congress (44th : 2020 : Pretoria, South Africa) (Pretoria : World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine, 2020-02)
    The Faculty of Veterinary Science of the Medical University of the Southern Africa (MEDUNSA) was a child of the ‘apartheid’ policies of the National Party governments which governed South Africa from 1948 to 1994. The ...