Author/Editor		Zupanič-Slavec, Z
Title		Doctors-veterinarians among Slovenes in the 18th and 19th century
Translated title		Zdravniki - živinozdravniki med Slovenci v 18. in 19. stoletju
Type		članek
Source		Zb Vet Fak Univ Ljublj
Vol. and No.		Letnik 33, št. Suppl 1
Publication year		1996
Volume		str. 135-45
Language		eng
Abstract		The legal decree Viehordnung, from 1731, is considered the beginning of veterinary service in the Slovenian Countries of the Hapsburg Monarchy. As there were no schooled veterinarians at the time, the mentioned jobs were performed by doctors and healers. In the year 1781 the Vienna authorities decided that in the Thierspital und Veiharzneyschule in Vienna two-year courses of veterinary medicine should be introduced for doctors and healers. So trained doctors-veterinarians were operating in Carniola, some of them were teachers of veterinary medicine in the surgical lyceum in Ljubljana. This article presents their veterinary work, professional-educational and publicistic activities and their pedagogical work at home and abroad. The first country doctor was appointed in Ljubljana in 1820, and in 1871 a decree was issued, determining that district veterinary service can be performed exclusively by veterinarians. The present survey of doctors-veterinarians cannot be complete without mentioning Slovenian and Foreign doctors who were working among Slovenians before the year 1781. Therefore in this article their most important veterinary works from the 18th century are described.
Descriptors		VETERINARY MEDICINE VETERINARIANS SCHOOLS, VETERINARY EDUCATION, VETERINARY EUROPE SLOVENIA