Veterinary Medicine/History of Veterinary Medicine

It all began when people tried to optimize their meat-production system. There's references to aiding cows in birth dating back to ancient Egypt, Veterinaries have been sent to war, to help maintain the horses of the cavalry, or replace the fallen human surgeons on the battlefield, especially because they had a better command of anatomy. Veterinaries are helping archaeologists in reconstructing the living conditions of ancient civilisations on the basis of animal bones found.