Search results for "Veterinary Medicine"

Un mystère : la technique de conservation mise en oeuvre par Honoré Fragonard pour créer ses fameux écorchés

2008

A two part overview of the techniques used by Honoré Fragonard to create and preserve (mainly against the insects) cutaway anatomical figures (" écorchés ") of animals or humans. The first part summarise the techniques preparing the dry anatomical specimens at that time, according to contemporary bibliographical data: selection and preparation of the bodies, then injection of the various organs and tissues (e.g: muscles, nerves, lymph and blood vessels, placenta etc.). The second one gives detailed information on the techniques used by Fragonard to create his " écorchés " : selection of the subjects, highlighting the various organs and tissues, mummification, drying and varnishing. This new…

Les vestiges archéozoologiques tardo-antiques et médiévaux des zones 1 à 4 : synthèse préliminaire, in G. Duperron (dir.), L'établissement littoral d…

2017

LA CHIRURGIE DU CHEVAL AU XVII ème SIECLE, D'APRES LES OEUVRES DE SOLLEYSEL ET DE MARKHAM

2004

Most important surgical veterinary techniques on horses carried out during the 17 th century, as described by Solleysel and Markham in their respective books. The lives of Solleysel and Markham.

The Treatise of both Arts in veterinary medicine (Hippology and Hippiatry) or The Naceri: a translation presentation

2004

General description of “El Naceri” (1333 AD) translated by the author into French from the Arabic text of Abou Bakr. Quotes of the most significant parts of the ten chapters of the book, highlighting their scientific and poetic value.

Les modèles d'anatomie clastique du docteur Auzoux au musée de l'Ecole vétérinaire d'Alfort

2009

Presentation of Louis Auzoux, french practitioner of the nineteenth century, and his revolutionary technique to produce anatomical models in papier mâché that can be dismantled. Description of some models of the Alfort veterinary school museum.

FRAGONARD (1732-1766) : UN OBSCUR AU SIECLE DES LUMIERES

2002

International audience; Christophe Degueurce présente la biographie d’Honoré Fragonard, professeur et démonstrateur d’anatomie des écoles vétérinaires de Lyon puis d’Alfort, son exceptionnelle technique de préparation anatomique ainsi que les principales pièces qui ont pu être conservées et qui sont présentées au musée Fragonard.

The anatomical models of Dr Auzoux, an industrial success in the service of veterinary medicine

2013

Dr. Louis Auzoux (1797-1880) is known all over the world for the anatomical models made of papier maché he produced and exported over the world. If the models related to human aesthetics are more reknown, they are far from being the only ones that the famous industrialist has designed and marketed; animals, plants and especially flowers, are another facet of his art. Models dedicated to horse had a special significance for the company. The horses made of paper, the series of bones defects and jaw he created were massively bought by the administration of the war to provide the regiments the pedagogical materials necessary to train recruits. Through these fascinating objects, this is a progra…

Jean Héroard, the first French " vétérinaire " and author of the treatise called Hippostologie

2009

Biographic data about Jean Héroard. Study of the treatises dealing with the osteology of the horse that were published before he produced his book entitled Hippostologie, c'est-à-dire Discours des Os du cheval. Description of this treaty and of the books that were used later on its content.

LA FERRURE PÉRIPLANTAIRE, HISTOIRE D'UNE POLÉMIQUE

2014

Pierre Charlier, veterinarian of a transport company of Paris, presented 1765 a revolutionary method of far-riery. His horse shoe was made of an iron hook inlaid into the edge of the wall that limited the wear of the hoof while the sole and frog came into contact with the ground and limited slips. This patented device called into question the principles of the French method of farriery, threatened Parisian workshops owned by veterinarians in sight und thus unleashed a controversy of a rare violence that flourished the following year.

The treatments of pursiness in the ancient time

2009

The pursiness is a very old disease known since antiquity whose name comes from the fact that affected horse have difficulties to expirate air and produce a movement of forced expiration to expel air. This symptom is now mainly related to pulmonary emphysema. Treatments remained generally the same from antiquity to the nineteenth century. They used mainly bleeding and therapeutic mixtures supposed to work on the lung. The revolution was to come in the nineteenth century with the use of arsenic.