Animals and Disease An Introduction to the History of Comparative Medicine [Hardcover]

An analysis of the origins and development of the study of infectious, epidemic diseases in animals and man.This book presents an analysis of the origins and development of the study of infectious, epidemic diseases in animals and man and how the field of comparative medicine developed to provide a framework for solving related problems of world-wide disease control.This book presents an analysis of the origins and development of the study of infectious, epidemic diseases in animals and man and how the field of comparative medicine developed to provide a framework for solving related problems of world-wide disease control.Animals and Disease examines the interactions of medicine and veterinary medicine in their common quest for ways of combating and controlling epidemic diseases in man and animals. Emphasis is placed on the study of animal disease itself, and its implications for human medicine, at first empirically, and later by deliberate use of animal models. Following a general introduction, the text is mainly concerned with developments of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing in particular on the apparent paradox of the founding of the Brown Institution in London, an institute for comparative medicine, nearly twenty years before similar institutes appeared in France and in Germany, although comparative medicine was studied with much more enthusiasm there than in the British Isles. The rise and fall of the Brown Institute and the subsequent rise of the great institutes of Paris and Berlin is discussed, concluding with the rise at the turn of the century of American institutes for comparative medicine.1. Attitudes to animal health and disease in the ancient world; 2. From the dark ages to the dawn of enlightenment; 3. Impact of cattle plague in the early eighteenth century; 4. Cattle plague in England and on the European continent 171480; 5. The first veterinary schools and their corollary: veterinary science in the making; 6. Patterns of vetel£-