One Medicine: Animal Experiments and the Making of Modern Medical Science
Dig: A History Podcast
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The History of Animal Medicine
Spiritual interventions were used generously on both humans and non-human animals, probably because of their low overhead. Animal medicine was generally considered to be a peasants problem until the later 17th or early 18th century. Francis Bacon developed the scientific method and medical experimentation began to rival traditional academic medicine. Many of these experiments fused human and animal medicine in new and exciting ways.
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