Veterinary Heritage July 2025

CONTENTS:

On the front cover: Lithograph reproduced on a vintage postcard showing Dan Patch (right) 1:55, “The Pacing King” and Cresceus (left) 2:02 ¼, “The Trotting King.” Both Standardbred horses were owned by M.W. Savage of Minneapolis who toured the country with them to fairs, exhibitions, and other events. At the turn off the 20th century, they were “the two most valuable harness horse stallions and champions of the world.” The illustration shows the gait difference between pacer and trotter. Postcard printed in Germany advertising the Great Allentown Fair, Allentown, Pennsylvania, early 1900.

Dan Patch, "As Near Death As a Horse Can Be" - "Everything Known to Veterinary Science Is Being Done"

                Lawrence B. Buggia

Vet Herit. 2025 Jul;48(1):3-13

(Ear) Tag, You're It: The History of National Efforts for Animal Identification

Victoria Warnecke

Vet Herit. 2025 Jul;48(1):14-18

Second Prize in the 2024 J. Fred Smithcors Student Veterinary History Essay Contest.

AVMHS Time-Bite: Mayhew's Technique for Passing Stomach Tubes in Horses

Vet Herit. 2025 Jul;48(1): 19-20

Terre Haute Veterinary College: 1909-1918: Indiana's Second Private Veterinary College

Howard H. Erickson and Susanne K. Whitaker

Vet Herit. 2025 Jul;48(1):21-33

Genesis of the Beast: The Birth of Theriogenology and Its Linguistic Midwife Shop

Kristyn Burton

Vet Herit. 2025 Jul;48(1):34-38

Fourth Prize in the 2024 J. Fred Smithcors Student Veterinary History Essay Contest.

2025-2065 AVMHS Officers, Board Members and Committees

On the back cover: First cloned mules - a theriogenologic achievement. Plate of Poitou Mule Brunette (height 16.1). From: Tegelmeier, W.B. and C.L. Sutherland. Horses, Asses, Zebras, Mules and Mule Breeding. London: H. Cox, 1895; p. 88. HathiTrust Digital Library, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924000350235 Source: Wikimedia Commons.