Task 12. Complete the text using the words given in brackets.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 517.

Veterinary medicine: Diagnosis and treatment of diseases of animals. An early interest in animal diseases is found in … Greek, Roman, Chinese writings on medicine. Veterinary medicine began … a science with the organization of the first school in the field in Lyons, France, in 1761, followed soon by similar schools in other… In the United States, veterinary schools … about the time of the Civil War, and there are now a number of accredited schools of veterinary medicine … colleges and universities. In 1884 the Bureau of Animal Industry … in the U.S. Department. of Agriculture to deal with animal disease problems in the … livestock industry. Veterinary research has made important contributions to medical science in general. Vaccination methods devised by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch for animals were found effective for humans also. Veterinarians … the inspection of meat and milk … the spread of tuberculosis.

The development since World War II of live-virus and modified live-virus vaccines and of antibiotics, sulfonamides, and other … has brought about a marked change in veterinary medicine. An important … was the mass immunization of poultry through sprays, dusts, and … to drinking water. Many animal diseases … can now be prevented or controlled by these new therapeutic agents, and this in turn has the output of livestock and poultry products.

(Ancient, fast-growing, to achieve the stature of, inaugurated, to prevent, parts of Europe, innovation, biological products, agents added, came into existence, considered incurable, affiliated with, was established, greatly increased).