Equine Surgery at the Ontario Veterinary College in the Early 20th Century.
This article seeks to examine the history of equine surgery at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) in the context of the changing horse economy during the first half of the 20th century. We argue that despite the transition to livestock medicine, public health and small animal practice, the horse, especially as a surgical topic, retained a (diminished) place at OVC due to the lucrative new recreational equine market, the deep links between horses and veterinary medicine, and the equine focus for nearly half a century of Dr. W.J.R. Fowler, the College's primary surgical instructor.
Department of History, University of Toronto.
Kevin
K
Woodger
Dean of the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph.
Elizabeth A
EA
Stone
D000818:Animals; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006736:Horses; D058751:Livestock; D009864:Ontario; D011634:Public Health; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000662:veterinary*; D014495:Universities; D014730:Veterinary Medicine / Q000266:history*
Médicine vétérinaire; cheval.; chirurgie; education; formation; horse.; surgery; veterinary medicine