Interrelations of Human and Veterinary Medicine

Abstract

I CAN appropriately begin my presentation with the following quotation from Rudolph Virchow (1821–1902): "Between animal and human medicine there is no dividing line — nor should there be. The object is different, but the experience obtained constitutes the basis of all medicine."This remark, made some seventy-five years ago, has been paraphrased by a number of writers. A recent rendition of it, and I think an excellent one, is by Cameron,1 who writes:Medicine, of course, is medicine and veterinary medicine is only part of an even greater association of which the most important, largely because of the value . . .