When did animal health become an area of study?

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Animal health became an area of study long before animal welfare.

The first veterinary school was founded in the late 1700s, but people likely began studying animal health many centuries before that.

On the other hand, animal welfare was not recognized as a scientific area of study until the 1960s.

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