Claude Bourgelat

Claude Bourgelat

Claude Bourgelat (March 27, 1712 – January 3, 1779) was a French veterinary surgeon.

Bourgelat was born at Lyon. He was the founder of veterinary colleges at Lyon in 1762, as well as an authority on horse management, and often consulted on the matter. Other dates claimed for the establishment of the Lyon College, the first veterinary school in the world, are 1760 and 1761.

"Bourgelat, a French barrister, observing that certain maladies were devastating the French herds, forsook the bar and devoted his time in seeking out a remedy for the then pest, which resulted in his founding a veterinary college in Lyon in 1760, from which establishment he despatched students, with weapons in their hands all-necessary for combating disease by science with practice; and in a short time from this period, the plague was stayed and the health of stock restored, through the assistance rendered to agriculture by veterinary science and art."^[1] The plague to which Lupton referred was cattle plague, also commonly known by its German name, Rinderpest.

He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Bourgelat also contributed to Diderot and d'Alambert's Encyclopédie.

Works

• L'art vétérinaire (1761)

References

• Marc Mammerickx: Claude Bourgelat: avocat des vétérinaires, Bruxelles 1971
• Hugues Plaideux, « L'inventaire après décès de Claude Bourgelat », in Bulletin de la Société française d'histoire de la médecine et des sciences vétérinaires, n°10, 2010, p. 125-158.
• Bourgelat, Claude, in: Frank Arthur Kafker, The encyclopedists as individuals: a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie, Oxford 1988, ISBN 0-7294-0368-8, p. 67–71.
• Richard Tagand: Claude Bourgelat, écuyer lyonnais, 1712–1779, in: Revue de médecine vétérinaire 1959, p. 888–897.
• Alcide Railliet, Léon Moulé: Histoire de l’École d’Alfort, Paris 1908, online
• Louis Furcy Grognier: Notice historique et raisonnée sur C. Bourgelat, Fondateur des écoles vétérinaires; ou l’on trouve un aperçu statistique sur ces établissemens, Paris [u.a.] 1805

1. ^ J.L.Lupton, "Modern Practical Farriery", 1879, in the section: "The Diseases of Cattle Sheep and Pigs" pp. 1

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

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