What Is Veterinary Medicine Essay

Pets are important members of the family. In more than 60% of households in the United States today according to Jill Weisenberger Rachel Bajema owns a pet. A veterinarian is a person qualified to treat diseased or injured animals. Pets of home owners are not their only patients. Vets can also look after zoo animals, livestock, and animals in sport. Vets can also help with animals’ diseases that can infect humans. A veterinarian job is very important. Animals are important to human life, both to share affection, and financial purposes, and a vets job is to make sure they are healthy and stay that way.

What we call "veterinary medicine” has been around as long as people and animals have worked and lived together, according to “Care of pets, and a history of Veterinary medicine.” The veterinarian dates back from 4,000B.C up to 2,500. The earliest veterinarian work was found in China, Rome, Egypt, and Europe.

People that study history have found Chinese writings about the diseases of horses, oxen, and buffalos that dates all the way back to about 2,500 B.C. In about A.D. 500 a Roman wrote a book on what veterinarians do to help animals. Nothing else was written after that until a thousand years later when another book was written. Yet, there were those like Romans that had to learn their skills by working directly with the animals.

The first school that taught people about scientific veterinary medicine was in Europe in the mid-eighteenth century-less than three hundred years ago. It has become more famous as time went by. In the end of the nineteenth century, veterinary schools had been established in the United States and also in many other countries.

In veterinarian medicine, there are two positions. One of the positions is...

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...colonies and the use of high-density housing systems are also increasing the risk of infection and complicating the ability of veterinarians to detect infectious agents. That’s why veterinarians are very important, to animals and humans according to Bennett, Justin C, animal scientist. With put veterinarian’s many diseases that rodents transmit would be infecting humans.

Becoming a veterinarian would be a lot of work. It would take a good few years, and training. However, becoming a veterinarian assistant, and studying to become a veterinarian, can help a lot. I can get work experience, and understand many things faster and easier. Being accepted into veterinarian school seems hard but not impossible. From this paper I learned that I have lots of math and science classes to take. How long it will take to become a veterinarian and what it takes to become one.