Veterinary History

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Platypuses exported to USA in 1943 had to be fed worms on the voyage, supplemented en route by Pitcairn islanders who rowed out to their ship with fresh supplies - unexpected fact of the day! #AHG22

Our first post-Covid meeting, face to face! A mostly dog-themed programme to get us back in the veterinary history saddle …

A recent vet discovery by @forumauctions, acquired by a lucky collector/library, is Bracy Clark's Reflective Diary, the existence of which was known (1859 pamphlet). So I thought over the next week I'd post snippets from his reflections. #ReflectionFTD @RCVSKnowledge @VetHistSoc

@MatthewStadlen @timspector That’s exactly why he specified that this is a single anecdotal report. That’s how lots of sci knowledge starts: anecdotal accounts are useful early indications that can be followed up robustly later as time passes. COVID loss of smell was first noticed like this, eg.

A Zoë contributor has told of a super-spreader event in Somerset at a 60 th birthday where All guests were vaccinated and some with boosters and had a lateral flow test 24 hours beforehand that was negative. 14/18 developed PCR positive for omicron- but symptoms all mild luckily

Society members involved in transcription project for @RCVSKnowledge

Veterinary history in an online inaugural lecture from long term @VetHistSoc member and @WAHVM1 President @abiwoods3 - signup link below!

President Andrew Goddard - Royal College of Physicians: Stop unethical sale of rare books collection - Sign the Petition! chng.it/LZd28fcL via @UKChange

This Friday, for the first time in 176 years, @theRCVS AGM will be held virtually. This week we will be sharing highlights from our Digital Collections, celebrating how you can still explore our archives online. Archivist Lorna explains more: rcvskblog.org/archives-on-yo…

On the left, Joan Joshua, on the right, Olga Uvarovite. Follow link for bios by our long-standing member Bruce Vivash Jones.

History repeats itself: Gary Clayton Jones, currently our chairman, was also our chairman back in 1988!

‘I was very surprised to receive your enormous bill and cannot imagine what it is for.’ Some things don’t change!

Clients included Arthur Conan Doyle! Probably bonded with Dier over Labradors, which they both had. Various other relatives were vet practitioners or pharmacists. One (grandfather) served in WW1 in army veterinary corps.

Back after lunch, and our afternoon programme kicks off with Mike Hinton on a mock ‘trial’ at a local @BritishVets (then the NVMA) meeting in Kent in 1928 - staged with 2 lawyers, one a barrister who was also a vet, Major Duncan FRCVS.