[The oldest German textbook on internal medicine of horses, edited at the Kayserlich-Köngliche Pferd-Cur und Operations Schul in Vienna in 1770].
The manuscript has the title: "Erkandtnus deren innerlichen Krankheiten des Pferds überhaupt". Through two take downs of the lectures of Ludwig Scotti, the founder of the first school for veterinarians in the German speaking part of Europe and its first teacher, the manuscript is identified as another take down. The first part of the manuscript, which is about internal medicine, in large passages is a literally translation of Lafosse's "Guide de Maréchal". In most passages the second part, which is about pharmacology, is a copy of the German translation of Claude Bourgelat's "Matière médicale" published in 1766. Nevertheless Scotti brings in his own experiences by inserting in or rewriting of some chapters or by adding other theories, likewise his prescriptions cannot be found in Bourgelat's book. The manuscript is an example for the highest level in veterinary science in the second half of the 18th century. This is emphasized through the comparison with contemporary literature in German language, for example the books of von Sind and Deigendesch.
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Institut für Paläoanatomie, Domestikationsforschung und Geschichte der Tiermedizin, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
D000818:Animals; D001317:Austria; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006734:Horse Diseases; D006736:Horses; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000266:history*; D013782:Textbooks as Topic / Q000266:history*; D014730:Veterinary Medicine / Q000266:history*
Das älteste deutschsprachige Lehrbuch über Innere Krankheiten des Pferdes. herausgegeben von der Kayserlich-Königlichen Pferd-Cur und Operations Schul in Wien im Jahre 1770.