I’m delighted to announce that 146 volumes of Veterinary medicine reports are now available on the National Library of Scotland’s Medical History of British India website. Click the link to browse and search 40,000 pages for free.
The Veterinary collection covers 1864-1959, focusing on veterinary diseases, colleges and laboratories and Civil Veterinary Departments. This free to access, important material provides extensive research on animal diseases such as surra and rinderpest. Detailed reports show how veterinary medicine was used by the British colonists to control disease, maintain livestock and alleviate famine and its effect on military and local communities.
Illustrated with many photographs, maps and charts, this material will be useful to those interested in veterinary science, military medicine, animal husbandry and agriculture.
A new viewing function enables up to 30 pdf pages to be selected and then ’stitched’ together for easier reading.
The material, from the National Library’s India Papers, was microfilmed and digitised using a grant from the Wellcome Trust.
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