POVIJESNI PREGLED NASTAJANJA HRVATSKIH VETERINARSKIH TEKSTOVA O PORADANJU DOMAĆIH ZIVOTINJA

Abstract

In this paper the historic review of the beginning of the veterinary literature dealing with domestic animal parturition will be presented. It is belived that the first intervention in healing an animal started
with domestication. It has been known that the nomad shepard tribes who made their living by stock- breeding used to help animals during parturition. People have been graduallly improving that skill from the prehistoric period onwards up to the period of the establisment of modern, scientific human and veterinary medicine.
The first veterinary literature in Croatia appeared in the I6th century whereas the first more significant veterinary texts were written in the l8 th century by Enlighteners to whom the credit goes for starting the croatian veterinary literature. However, the scientific texts dealing with veterinary medicine and the first original veterinary medicine textbooks in croatian language, appear only in the I9 th century.
First veterinary medicine papers on parturition of domestic animal appeared in the mid 20th century. The problem areas dealth with in those texts remaind the same in scientific and practical achievements in veterinary medicine in 20th and 2lth century.