Colonial Veterinary Medical Practice

    

Colonial Veterinary Medical Practice

    With each veterinary school that was established, various 

forms of herb gardens were maintained.  These herb gardens

were used in developing medicines of that day.  

    With further changes in formulating these effective drugs made 

way in offering the hypodermic tablets, as seen now.

    In the early 1800’s, after the Revolutionary War veterinarians 

who graduated from the new veterinary medical schools in 

England and Europe, immigrated to the U.S.  Their main means 

of travel was on horse back.  During those early times, the 

veterinarian carried what he needed in his saddlebags.  That is 

why the hypodermic tablet cases were so practical.  They were a

compact mobile pharmacy of that day.

Here are two examples of hypodermic tablet cases.