Who Is Claude Bourgelat Successful?

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Claude Bourgelat was a successful inventor. He created the practice of veterinary medicine and founded the first veterinary schools. He was a known horse trainer and breeder in France. He was a scientist that proposed theories and worked alongside other scientists and surgeons. In his schools he required his students to learn about animal anatomy. Therefore, Bourgelat was successful because he had experience in horse training and breeding, was a scientist that proposed theories, and he also made his students learn important things about animal anatomy. Bourgelat was a well known horse trainer and breeder in Lyon, France. By the time Claude Bourgelat was 28, he was the Director of the Lyon Academy of Horsemanship. Claude’s book El?mens d'hippiatrique (Elements of Horsemanship) became a bestseller and brought him acclaim as an equestrian genius (Fran Jurga). His book contained the elements of horsemanship. Claude Bourgelat was even responsible for horse breeding in the Lyon. To …show more content…

Bourgelat taught his students how to fight rinderpest and various zoonoses. Rinderpest was an infectious viral disease that infected cattle. Zoonoses is virus and diseases that include rabies, anthrax, tularemia and West Nile. Within six months of the school being open Bourgelat published collection of results achieved by his students in fighting rinderpest and various zoonoses, suggesting that similar results would be obtained wherever veterinary medicine was practiced (The birth of veterinary education in the Age of Enlightenment). Today all 198 countries and territories are free from rinderpest-susceptible animals in the world are free of the disease. On June 3, 1764, the Royal Council of State decreed that the Lyon institution be given the title Royal Veterinary School. In conclusion, with Claude Bourgelat’s teachings, the students learned important things to help further the animal medical

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