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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The majority of medicines are the product of observation empiricism and analogy. In Ancient Egypt and in the Graeco-Roman world no distinction was made between human and animal medicines. Melanpos a shepherd and doctor who is mentioned in Virgil used the same potions when treating the daughters of King Argos and animals. Theomneste used an ointment which contained 31 ingredients to treat both men and horses. Healers applied their knowledge to men and animals alike. Physiotherapy continues this empirical approach but within the context of modern science: its practice stretches back to Antiquity but it applies present-day standards of mathematical precision to massage electrotherapy and physiology. Today’s medical or veterinary student depends more on his or her memory of scientific fact than on instinct. However therapy itself often involves appreciable mathematical precision: the practice of healing which is the product of thousands of years of observation and treatment. has adjusted to the advances of modernstherapeutic techniques. Physiotherapy provides solutions to a variety of preventive and therapeutic situations in human medicine. It has already proven its effectiveness in its application to sport where much progress has been made due to the the pooling of knowledge by researchers doctors and physiotherapists. It should therefore help develop new approaches to the treatment of the horse. Many young people coming into veterinary science are interested in new ideas and are frustrated with the old-fashioned dualistic approach which places science and therapy in separate compartments. It is important to offer them encouragement developing their creativity without dampening their enthusiasm. Dialogue between veterinarians and physiotherapists must become as open as that between the various specialties in human medicine.