Article ID: CBB086047686

Caring for Cows in a Time of Rinderpest: Non-academic Veterinary Practitioners in the County of Flanders, 1769–1785 (2019)

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Non-academically trained practitioners of early modern veterinary medicine are still commonly described in decidedly unflattering terms; their practices often conceived of as folkloristic or otherwise static and unchanging. This article examines a group of such veterinary practitioners in the county of Flanders, known as cow masters. It argues that the medicine they practised was theoretically sophisticated and in line with contemporary mainstream medicine, while they made use of a variety of newly available chemical and exotic remedies. It is postulated that these newer remedies augmented the market for specialised practitioners, which has important implications for the history of medicine as a whole.

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Authors & Contributors
Mishra, Saurabh
McVety, Amanda Kay
Adriano Mantovani
Giorgio Battelli
Falconi, Bruno
Franchini, Antonia Francesca
Concepts
Veterinary medicine
Cattle
Medicine
Public health
Agriculture
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Ancient
17th century
Places
Italy
France
India
Africa
French Equatorial Africa
Milan (Italy)
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