To be honest I chose to be a vet tech because of my love for animals not because of some philosopher or pioneer or way of thinking. I have been studying for 5 years and I have not taken 1 class that has to do with vet tech, so I don’t know anything about major thinkers or philosophers. So I decided to do a little research on the people that has made history on this area and I learn a lot. From people that discovered diseases to people that fight for animal rights and to the first woman who became a veterinarian. There isn’t much information on these people but they definitely made major contributions to this field of work and it’s something that people should look up to. Below this there are some major veterinarians that made history:
1. Belle Bruce Reid – (1883-1945), was Australia's first qualified woman veterinarian surgeon, she went to the Melbourne Veterinary College, Fitzroy, in 1902. Completing the course in 1906, Reid was one of five final-year students who were examined, and the only one to pass. When she was registered by the Veterinary Board of Victoria on 21 November she was said to be the first formally recognized female veterinary surgeon in the world. A formidable woman, she only gained limited status in what was then a conservative, male-dominated profession, partly because she retired from practice early. In 1996 her name was included in the National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
2. Elinor McGrath - Elinor McGrath was born around 1888 (exact dates unknown). She made her way to the Chicago Veterinary College and in 1907 was the first woman admitted to the school. Caring for horses and livestock had always been a male profession and when Elinor entered the Chicago Veterinary College many of her fellow students were upset about her presence. In later years Elinor recounted a story to another woman veterinarian telling her that “it got so rough I offered to the Dean that I should leave the college but he said “well you better not because you’ll make a better veterinarian than any of them.” Elinor graduated to become Elinor McGrath DVM in April of 1910 and she set up a small animal practice on Indiana Avenue on Chicago’s South Side. Besides being a compassionate animal doctor Elinor acknowledged the intimate role of animals in our lives.
a. McGrath was the first woman veterinarian in the US with another woman, Florence Kimball who graduated from Cornell in the same year, and together they established the first small animal practice even though little is known about her practice
3. Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang (1848-1932), was a Danish veterinarian. He discovered Brucella abortus in 1897, which came to be known as Bang’s bacillus. Bang’s bacillus was the cause of the contagious Bang’s disease (now known as Brucellosis), a malady that can cause pregnant cattle to abort and that can cause undulant fever in humans. For his contributions to veterinary medicine, he received an honorary doctorate from the Veterinary College of Utrecht in 1921. Bang also is known for his work in development of a control for bovine tuberculosis, research on smallpox vaccination, and research on animal bacillary disease.
4. Buster Lloyd-Jones (1914-1980), during his career, may have been the most sought-after vet in Great Britain. Buster cared for sick, injured and abandoned animals during the Second World War. He was a very kind man with a passion for animals. During the war, he kept a menagerie of abandoned animals at his house, "Clymping Dene." Buster Lloyd Jones founded Denes in 1951, which produces herbal veterinary products for animals. Buster wrote an autobiography entitled The Animals Came in One by One, and a sequel, Come into my World.
5. Debbye Turner is an American vet, a talk show hostess and winner of the 1990 Miss America contest. After graduation from college with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, she became a spokesperson for Purina and pursued a career in veterinary medicine before going into television. Turner’s first hosting job came at St. Louis’ NBC affiliate, KSDK, on a show called Show Me St. Louis in 1995. Six years later, Turner joined CBS News as a reporter and contributor on The Early Show, a position she still holds. Turner has been dubbed The Early Show‘s resident veterinarian, sharing a wealth of advice about quality pet care. In 2002, Debbye garnered an interview with President & Mrs. Bush at the White House for a Pet Planet segment about the first family’s pets.
6. Dame Jane Morris Goodall is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. Goodall set out to Tanzania to study wild chimpanzees by sitting amongst them, bypassing more rigid procedures and making discoveries about primate behavior that have continued to shape scientific discourse. She is a highly respected member of the world scientific community and is a staunch advocate of ecological preservation. Although Goodall is not a veterinarian I include her on this list because she works with animal welfare issues and she is a really important person in this line of work. And if I want to work in a zoo. I must know more about her.
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1. Belle Bruce Reid – (1883-1945), was Australia's first qualified woman veterinarian surgeon, she went to the Melbourne Veterinary College, Fitzroy, in 1902. Completing the course in 1906, Reid was one of five final-year students who were examined, and the only one to pass. When she was registered by the Veterinary Board of Victoria on 21 November she was said to be the first formally recognized female veterinary surgeon in the world. A formidable woman, she only gained limited status in what was then a conservative, male-dominated profession, partly because she retired from practice early. In 1996 her name was included in the National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
2. Elinor McGrath - Elinor McGrath was born around 1888 (exact dates unknown). She made her way to the Chicago Veterinary College and in 1907 was the first woman admitted to the school. Caring for horses and livestock had always been a male profession and when Elinor entered the Chicago Veterinary College many of her fellow students were upset about her presence. In later years Elinor recounted a story to another woman veterinarian telling her that “it got so rough I offered to the Dean that I should leave the college but he said “well you better not because you’ll make a better veterinarian than any of them.” Elinor graduated to become Elinor McGrath DVM in April of 1910 and she set up a small animal practice on Indiana Avenue on Chicago’s South Side. Besides being a compassionate animal doctor Elinor acknowledged the intimate role of animals in our lives.
a. McGrath was the first woman veterinarian in the US with another woman, Florence Kimball who graduated from Cornell in the same year, and together they established the first small animal practice even though little is known about her practice
3. Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang (1848-1932), was a Danish veterinarian. He discovered Brucella abortus in 1897, which came to be known as Bang’s bacillus. Bang’s bacillus was the cause of the contagious Bang’s disease (now known as Brucellosis), a malady that can cause pregnant cattle to abort and that can cause undulant fever in humans. For his contributions to veterinary medicine, he received an honorary doctorate from the Veterinary College of Utrecht in 1921. Bang also is known for his work in development of a control for bovine tuberculosis, research on smallpox vaccination, and research on animal bacillary disease.
4. Buster Lloyd-Jones (1914-1980), during his career, may have been the most sought-after vet in Great Britain. Buster cared for sick, injured and abandoned animals during the Second World War. He was a very kind man with a passion for animals. During the war, he kept a menagerie of abandoned animals at his house, "Clymping Dene." Buster Lloyd Jones founded Denes in 1951, which produces herbal veterinary products for animals. Buster wrote an autobiography entitled The Animals Came in One by One, and a sequel, Come into my World.
5. Debbye Turner is an American vet, a talk show hostess and winner of the 1990 Miss America contest. After graduation from college with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, she became a spokesperson for Purina and pursued a career in veterinary medicine before going into television. Turner’s first hosting job came at St. Louis’ NBC affiliate, KSDK, on a show called Show Me St. Louis in 1995. Six years later, Turner joined CBS News as a reporter and contributor on The Early Show, a position she still holds. Turner has been dubbed The Early Show‘s resident veterinarian, sharing a wealth of advice about quality pet care. In 2002, Debbye garnered an interview with President & Mrs. Bush at the White House for a Pet Planet segment about the first family’s pets.
6. Dame Jane Morris Goodall is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. Goodall set out to Tanzania to study wild chimpanzees by sitting amongst them, bypassing more rigid procedures and making discoveries about primate behavior that have continued to shape scientific discourse. She is a highly respected member of the world scientific community and is a staunch advocate of ecological preservation. Although Goodall is not a veterinarian I include her on this list because she works with animal welfare issues and she is a really important person in this line of work. And if I want to work in a zoo. I must know more about her.
Links
- http://www.vet.cornell.edu/library/women/1kimball.htm
- http://www.petmd.com/blogs/fullyvetted/2011/aug/ten_vets_who_made_history#.UMze7m83h5G
- http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/reid-isabelle-bruce-belle-11503
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