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==Training==
*The Madras Veterinary Establishment was set up in 1810 and boys from the [[Orphan Schools in Madras#Madras Military Male Orphan Asylum|Military Male Asylum]] and the Charity School were to be trained in the veterinary art, with the eventual rank of [[Farrier|farriers]].<sup>[[#References|1]]</sup>
*There is a British Library catalogue entry IOR/F/4/661/18358 Mar 1821, which appears to be in respect of Bengal: Appointment of J.T. Hodgson as Veterinary Surgeon to the Governor General's Body Guard - he is to select and train eight Assistant Apothecaries as Veterinary Surgeons for the Light Cavalry Regiments. Refer [[Apothecary#Duties|Apothecary - Duties]].
*Page 3 of [http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BJVM/article/viewFile/1909/1801 "History and Scope of Veterinary Medicine"] (pdf) by MA Samad and MU Ahmed talks about the history of Veterinary Medicine in the Indian Sub- continent. It advises an Army Veterinary School was established at Poona in 1862, The first Veterinary College was set up at Babugarh in 1877, followed by Lahore in 1882, Bombay in 1886, and Madras and Calcutta in 1893
